A 37-year-old man from Taft died from injuries sustained in an explosion while manufacturing black powder fireworks, the Kern ...

The Kern County Coroner’s Office identified a man who died after an explosion that occurred while manufacturing black powder ...

A Taft man who sustained massive burns on June 29 died accidentally after an explosion went off while he was making black powder fireworks, the Kern County coroner’s office said ...

Black powder is essentially the same firearm technology used in the Civil War. It was out of date a hundred years ago. These guns have less power and are slightly less accurate, ...

The tradition of black powder, the earliest known chemical explosive, goes back to ninth-century China, where it was invented by Taoist monks and alchemists experimenting with medical concoctions.

Learn about the modern black powder rifle, including a round ball selection guide, how to load a muzzleloader, shooting a black powder gun, and a shooting safety guide. To many folks, the idea of ...

Black Powder Safety. 1. Don’t smoke around the black powder or your rifle. 2. Mark your ramrod to show where it will sit at the muzzle when the gun is loaded. This way you can be sure your load is ...

Black powder works similarly, and this makes it easy to control how much and how fast energy is released. Adding different elements to a mixture can produce different colored fireworks.

There are few events that can overshadow the invention of black powder in China and its change of our civilization. The discovery of combining a mixture of sulfur, charcoal and potassium nitrate ...

Some 125 shooters fired vintage black-powder guns at far-away targets aiming for a bull's eye. Up the hill at the shotgun range, contestant broke fast-flying clay targets.