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Title: Even My Winchester 94 looks BORED
Review: A few fine old pictures of antique patent drawings & some old folklore about mining in general.part on obtaining potassium nitrate, aka SALTPETER, from compost heaps and ashes is interesting. The brief part on how some countries, such as Sweden, once required the crystalized leachings from such sources as a portion of yearly taxes. The two other ingredients of gunpowder- charcoal &@ sulfur make up the remainder of the book. The most tedious part of the book in the smallest proportion of gunpowder, sulfur, written in an over technical pseudo type style. One moment seeming like an inorganic chemistry text, the next like some turn of the century report from the US BUREAU OF MINES. Nowhere is the fascinating history of gunpowder explained indepth...nor the reader taken on a tour of the GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY that such a history entails.
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