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By accident, I bumped into an old thread that featured an article written about my invention, a derivative of U.S. Pat. No. 4,497,676 that I named "Golden Powder". The product gained world wide attention during the mid 1980's and died a slow death because I trusted the wrong people.
If you'd like you read more on the subject, you can visit: www.kurtztechnologies.com (http://www.kurtztechnologies.com) site 404 and www.goldenpowder.com (http://www.goldenpowder.com) site 404 The product is slowly but surely coming back to life, better than ever.
To eliminate heresay, the so called faux "Golden Powder" marketed briefly in 1987 was not, in any way, shape, or manner, my original Golden Powder. My original Golden Powder never entered volume production and therefore, never saw the light of one marketing day. If you would like a fact sheet and data on my original product derived from The Kurtz System, you are welcome to contact me at ktech@charter.net You may also want to check out our gun dealer business at www.buckskinarms.com (http://www.buckskinarms.com) Glad to now be a member of your forum. If you have questions, I'll do my level best to answer them honestly.
Earl F. "Skip" Kurtz, inventor of the original Golden Powder.
rockinbbar
02-27-2009
Why don't you tell us in "layman's terms" what Golden Powder is.
Earl F. "Skip" Kurtz
02-27-2009
Barry wants to know, in layman's terms, what Golden Powder is. O.K. I'll tell you that it is a specific blend of a certain spec synthetic Potassium Nitrate and a particular isomer of Ascorbic Acid. That's all there is to it. Neither ingredient will hold a flame, but combined properly and processed correctly, you have Golden Powder. I was the first to combine the two and use it as a propellant and low explosive. Though I won't disclose my original formula, I wll say the specific blending is critical, but not as important as the very specific process, and therein lies the rub. Though others obtained the formula through nefarious means, they never could make it perform like we did. Simply put, they never understood nor could they use the original processing. So, they had to compensate by debasing the formula with such high explosive ingredients as Potassium and/or Ammonium Perchorate and you can well imagine what that does to a gun barrel. My son Timm's original Kodiak Express blend of Golden Powder, as used by Col. Michael J. Powasnick to take a record leopard in Africa, performed 30% better than Goex black powder on a weight to weight, volume to volume basis. Further fact sheets are available for the asking, if you have interest. Write to me at ktech@charter.net and I will send a pdf. All best, Skip Kurtz
Daryl
02-28-2009
So, in "layman's terms", Golden Powder is another form of black powder, or rather a substitute black powder, that gives somewhat better performance than original black powder?
Earl F. "Skip" Kurtz
02-28-2009
I suppose you could say that, although Golden Powder was first described as an "alternate" for black powder as opposed to a "substitute". One of the first uses we planned for Golden Powder was a shootable "cleaner" of bores fouled by black powder. And, that's exactly what I used it for to demonstrate its superiority. Here's a quote from The Kurtz System Golden Powder fact sheet I'm offering to anyone who cares to request same by writing to ktech@charter.net :
In 1984, Ken Grissom (then Sports Editor for the Houston Post) bought three new Douglas barrels and fired ten rounds in each without cleaning, using: 1) Goex black powder, 2) Pyrodex (tm), and 3) KURTZ SYSTEM original Golden Powder. A year later, he cleaned and sawed each barrel length wise to find #1 and #2 were badly pitted and corroded, and #3 glistened like a brand new barrel. (Test documented in the Houston Post).
Awhile back, I formed a new company and created a new name for Golden Powder so I could continue development and update the product without hindrance. Here's an example of raw Renegade Gunpowder (nee Golden Powder)'s performance:
RENEGADE PRODUCTS CORPORATION
COMPARATIVE SHOOTING TESTS OF RENEGADE GUNPOWDER
Note: weights of charges in grains underlined.
Firearm: 1884 Springfield "Trapdoor" Rifle, 32" barrel. .45-70-405 caliber. Partly cloudy, high humidity, no wind, temperature: hot and muggy North Carolina summer day. Shooting Chrony F1 chronograph. Distance to screens: 5 paces. Mixed used cases. Compaction die used to compress powder to base of seated bullet. Intentionally lowered charge of 60 grains by weight used to better illustrate true comparisons.
.45-60-405 FFg Goex black powder, 405 grain cast lead bullet. SPG lube.
1,239 fps
1,192 fps
1,245 fps
1,189 fps
1,213 fps
Average = 1,215.6 fps
Primers somewhat flattened. No sign of excessive pressure.
.45-60-405 Renegade Gunpowder fines, 405 grain cast lead bullet. SPG lube.
1,393 fps
1,304 fps
1,373 fps
1,356 fps
1,358 fps
Average = 1,356.8 fps
Primers exhibit no flattening. No signs of excessive pressure
.45-70-405. Per Lyman Manual, maximum for Springfield Trapdoor Rifle.
15.5 grains Unique smokeless powder. 405 grain cast lead bullet. SPG lube.
1,207 fps
1,242 fps
1,269 fps
1,257 fps
1,245 fps
Average = 1,244 fps
Primers well flattened. No signs of excessive pressure, but bordering.