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Offline javaman

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MDM muzzleloader factory blows up
« on: May 15, 2010, 06:17:56 AM »
watching the news last night they reported that the MDM muzzleloader factory blew up,  two people are dead--let us pray for them.
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Re: MDM muzzleloader factory blows up
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2010, 08:01:05 AM »
I am quite sure it was a powder manufacturing facility that blew up.
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Re: MDM muzzleloader factory blows up
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2010, 02:50:19 PM »
WBZ news says it is the MDM muzzleloader factory in Colebrook N.H
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Re: MDM muzzleloader factory blows up
« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2010, 06:07:11 PM »
Your both right! It was the Black Mag Industries Powder Plant, a subsidiary of MDM Muzzleloaders. MDM bought the rights to Black Mag a few years back.

http://www.wmur.com/news/23556316/detail.html?hpt=T2

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Re: MDM muzzleloader factory blows up
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2010, 07:38:12 AM »
I talked to Laurie at Black Mag this morning to offer my condolences. As of yet she doesn't know of a fund set up to help the families of those affected.  She also told me about a reporter on wmur news that identified a muzzleloader as a gun with a barrel with an end like a trumpet that you stuff ammunition down
 he sounds quite informed?   this is going to be bad for all of us because i am sure the national media   will eat this up
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Re: MDM muzzleloader factory blows up
« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2010, 08:25:34 AM »
I was in the hobby when this was the headlines.....

"The inventor of Pyrodex, Dan Pawlak, died January 27, 1977 when his powder plant blew up."
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Re: MDM muzzleloader factory blows up
« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2010, 04:18:39 PM »
Sad news.
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Re: MDM muzzleloader factory blows up
« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2010, 04:04:12 AM »
On our local news the other night they said that the 2 men that were killed were making blackpowder pellets.
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Re: MDM muzzleloader factory blows up
« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2010, 08:20:20 AM »
Quote from: OLDHandgunner on May 19, 2010, 04:04:12 AM
On our local news the other night they said that the 2 men that were killed were making blackpowder pellets.


At one time they were making a compressed powder/bullet combination, I no longer see it on their website. They also have a NEW Black Mag'XP formula that has been out for a year or so, and a new Black Mag Flash formula for priming flintlock pans. Another product called Lightning Loads is a 100 gr equivalent that is packaged in tubes.

They may have been trying to make a new pelleted powder, I have read that back in January another guy received some injury from a machine flashing in his face. It said that that fire was quickly extinguished. Sounds like a dangerous process?

http://www.blackmagpowder.com/

http://emainehosting.com/MDM-Muzzleloaders/
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