Rochester Blackpowder source

[hueyjazz]

Anyone know a source around Rochester to purchase black powder or is online order the way to go and pay shipping fees?

Had been using Beikirchs but they are no more and supply is low.  Been using pellets

[turkeyfeathers]

Dicks sporting goods ? Buffalo trip to Cabela s as they carry it 

[hueyjazz]

TF 

They have to use a storage vault to sell it so that rules out a lot of retailers.  I recall the days when it was on the shelf.

[Bolt action]

Dick's and sportsman's Warehouse carry it. Just ask at the gun counter 

[Lawdwaz]

The OP is looking for REAL black powder I believe..........

[Culvercreek hunt club]

14 hours ago, hueyjazz said:

Anyone know a source around Rochester to purchase black powder or is online order the way to go and pay shipping fees?

Had been using Beikirchs but they are no more and supply is low.  Been using pellets

Call Runnings in Brockport or Canandaigua

[Culvercreek hunt club]

13 hours ago, Bolt action said:

Dick's and sportsman's Warehouse carry it. Just ask at the gun counter 

Something must have changed becasue the  Fire Marshal has Field and Stream and old Gander  all tied so they couldn't sell any type of powder. 

[Bolt action]

I mis read the OP.. I haven't looked for loose powder in quite some time. I was suggesting that they carry black powder, albeit in pellets.

[hueyjazz]

Smokeless powder isn't an explosive.  Black powder is.  An individual isn't allowed to have more that five pound of the stuff.  Greater that five pound requires a separated storage vault.

Landwaz brings up a good point and I don't know the answer.  Is  Pyrodex, 777 and Blackhorn regulated the same way as real black powder?  

Post 911 and other events things changes a lot.  Pretty easy to make a bomb with black powder.  Fairly impossible with smokeless but I'd hate to be proved wrong.

But those of you that have been to PA to buy fireworks.  How does that one skip the regulations unless there's a exemption.  Keep in mind the Boston marathon bombers use fireworks to extract their black powder

Firemen are going by NFPA and they would be up on storage requirements.  I know at least one of you out there is a retired fireman.  DOT only comes into play when it's being transported.