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Tagents in black powder?
« on: October 29, 2006, 12:53:21 PM »
I remember a few years ago that there was talk of putting tagents in gun powder, so that it could be traced to the purchaser should they do illegal things with it.  I was shooting my 1851 Colt on Saturday in the bright light and noticed that there appeared to be a blueish/green item every now and then that would poor out of the spout on my powder horn into my loader.  It did not appear to be black powder and I would see one every now and then.

Is that a tagent?

Thanks.