Personally, I think this info is largely accurate, but also borderline useless, and I'd bet money the person who wrote that never made as much as a functioning blasting cap... >Potassium chlorate itself cannot be made in the home Wrong. If you're too lazy or ignorant to figure out how, you probably shouldn't be meddling with this stuff to begin with. >but it can be obtained from labs. Go ahead, try acquiring large quantities of chlorates, see what happens.