Originally Posted By: bill schodlatz
Black does not go bad if it is stored dry!


So true. A friend, who is an ardent WBTS artifact collector, once found a cannonball that was unexploded, at about 6 feet deep. He opened it somehow, got the black powder out of it (which was actually greyish in color), loaded some of it in a flintlock, and it fired the first try, well over a century after it was manufactured.

SRH

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