Disposing of Old Smokeless Powder-Photos

[antelopedundee]

An acquaintance of mine from deer camp was disposing of some old black powder. He poured it into an old Styrofoam minnow bucket and static electricity set it off. It severely burned his face and inhaled hot smoke and fumes and was hospitalized for months and was pretty badly disfigured.

Yikes a mighty. I remember some from this area talking at a hunter safety course about having some fireworks [the big stuff, not the stuff you can buy at roadside places] and he went through a hell of an ordeal with surgeries and all.