Okay, Charley, ignore my thread drift above, but last time I looked, I am of the female persuasion.

My brother and I weren't too adventurous with gunpowder, though we used to sit in the driveway as kids and pound strips of caps with rocks, and see if we could hit the whole roll at once to make a bigger bang. But we weren't able to compound our own mixes like you lot. My brothers found some sulfur down by the railroad tracks one time and for some reason they thought they'd grind it up in the basement. When everyone got sick headaches and we finally figured out what was causing it that activity stopped.

SRS