J.B. Hodgdon, one of two sons that supported Bruce and Amy Hodgdon as they built Hodgdon Powder Company into the legend it is today, retired from full-time service at the company on January 1, 2025.

But you can always reload great grandpa’s musket with some homemade gunpowder. All kidding aside, the invention and proliferation of gunpowder had a profound effect on the world. Here you can ...

Hodgdon Powder Company announced the retirement of Co-Founder JB Hodgdon. Hodgdon assumed the role of Chairman Emeritus on ...

Owing to its purpose, the Ordinance Department named the burgeoning city Nitro after the chemical Nitro-Cellulose, a component in the smokeless gunpowder it produced. Redwop, a reverse spelling of ...

a huge improvement over the Murata Rifle family which still relied on black gunpowder at the time. The Type 30 was chambered for the 6.5×50mmSR cartridge and featured a bolt-action system ...

I’m the editor of Wirecutter’s outdoors section, and a couple of years later, with the pandemic lingering on and on, I assigned senior staff writer Kit Dillon to look into smokeless fire pits.