Several years ago, while duck hunting in Stuttgart, AR, I was in the world famous hunting store, Mack’s Prairie Wings.  While looking around at the muzzleloading stuff (as I always find myself doing), I noticed a can of powder with…

It’s rare that anyone fires more than 100 shots through their muzzle-loader in a year—much less 100 rounds a week. According to muzzleloading hunter Toby Bridges, using clean-burning Blackhorn 209 not only makes it possible, but also helps to ensure accuracy shot…

Pellet powder charges can be easily damaged, causing a wide variance in weight and ultimately affecting accuracy. For a solution that not only enhances precision, but is also cost-effective, customizable and convenient, this muzzleloading hunter chooses Blackhorn 209 and Western Powders’ loading tubes.

Although I’m not a reader of the tabloids you see in the grocery store, every once in awhile one will catch my eye. You know, so-and-so did this-and-that, resulting in a scandal of mammoth proportions.  Or my favorite:  “Secret Revealed!” Well, I suppose that we’d better get ready for…

As far as we’re concerned, you can’t go wrong when an article combines Alfred Nobel, Annie Oakley, Teddy Roosevelt and coffee.  Add in info about our Blackhorn 209, and we think it should be up for a Pulitzer.  Randy Wakeman…

It’s fairly common for folks to ask me what the impetus was behind creating Blackhorn 209.  Here’s the simple answer:  I’m a hunter who chooses to use a muzzleloader, and I was tired of having to deal with the downsides…

The proof of any powder’s success is obviously, in the field. It’s where, proverbially, the rubber meets the road…if the rubber happens to be black powder and the road is whitetail buck in a frozen Midwestern hayfield. We particularly enjoyed…

You know—and we know—that there are a lot of other muzzleloading powders on the market. In fact, there are some pretty good ones out there. Certainly, after years of testing and fine-tuning our powder formulation, we think ours is the…