Hodgdon Triple Seven FFFg

PROPELLANT PROFILES

- Randy Bimson

It is fitting in this edition of Propellant Profiles that we recognize Hodgdon Powder Company’s 45-year, ongoing commitment to those of us who avail ourselves to the convenience and performance of the industry-changing black-powder substitute propellant powders to stoke our muzzleloading firearms.

In 1976, the U.S. celebrated its 200-year bicentennial and on May 17, 1976, Dan Pawlak and Hodgdon issued a press release introducing the first successful black-powder substitute propellant, Pyrodex. To state that Pyrodex was a game-changer would be a gross under-statement. Pyrodex challenged the 700-and-some-year-old dominance of black powder and changed the landscape of black-powder muzzleloading and cartridge firearm shooting forever.

Pyrodex dominated the substitute black-powder propellant market for 25 years, from 1976 until 2001, when Hodgdon introduced the Triple Seven family of black-powder substitute propellants. Triple Seven is now available as FFg and FFFg granular powder and five forms of pellets.