Ever wonder why your homemade black powder just doesn’t cut it? It usually isn’t the formulation or the grade of chemicals used but rather the method you have used (or not used) to incorporate the ingredients intimately into one another. Commercial methods pulverize a moist blend under thousands of pounds of pressure in a wheel mill for several hours followed by hydraulically pressing the "mill cake" into a dense solid slab for drying, granulating and final screening. How much of this can you do? This treatise answers that question and many more by explaining how you too can make black powder that will rival the commercial product in every way using materials easily found around the kitchen and the local hardware store. It lists three different formulations and their applications along with simple inexpensive methods to mix/grind, press, granulate and screen. Lots more information included as well like making your own reactive charcoal and constructing your own inexpensive powder cake press. More! All this packed into four 8 ½" X 11" pages.