FJ540 wrote:http://www.alliantpowder.com/getting_started/safety/storage_handling.aspx
I'm not sure an ammo can has the structural rigidity to make a very large boom.
You linked safety recommendations for smokeless powder. Smokeless powder is flameable. Black powder is an explosive. They are very different substances. Leaving an air-gap in a BP cartridge can cause it to detonate based on what I've read about reloading BP rounds. There is a HUGE difference between storing black powder and smokeless in a sealed container. I'd love to film it if I could afford the experiment.
At one point my family stored a bit under the maximum of 100lbs of black powder. Half was in the house and half was in the garage as you can't have more than 50lbs in any single location. My father is *always* pulled aside at the airport because of this. At some point at least one of the cans from one of the LOTs he sold ended up in a pipe bomb. (DO NOT FLY LIST Jr(you can fly, this time, maybe, please come with us sir))
I'm not saying you have to build a wooden powder magazine for 2 pounds of FFg but don't seal it in an ammo can and turn it into a bomb in your basement.
I do know someplace you could try it and find out.
I'll donate the ammo cans if somebody can come up with a few lbs of smokeless and BP
