Powder disposal

[Webster]

powder is a wonderful fertilizer. Use it around your landscaping.

Does it put strange chemicals in the ground water. Burning puts junk into the air, the same as shooting.

 

[D Coots]

You’re still allowed to smoke in CA? You’d think they would have made that illegal too

Just certain tobacco...

 

[Fuj]

Lol, this post makes me chuckle, I will explain why. I live in a town with a fulltime professional fire dept. I am at the very edge of town with miles of woods behind me. About 20 years ago I had a large supply of old reclaimed powder that was covered in red dust, I had bought it years before at just a few cents a pound. I decided to burn it. First mistake. On a cool cloudy dark day with a hours long drizzle I decided now was the time. Second mistake. I went to an area off the side of my home behind my garage and made a pile, big pile that is, about 30 ft from both the house and garage with about a 15ft long trail as a fuse. Third mistake. I lit the fuse. Major fourth mistake. What happened was awesome, I guess. It looked like a Saturn rocket lift off. A towering brilliant 25 ft tall flame. The heat generated made me fear the siding on the buildings would melt. Of course my brilliant idea of doing it on a dark day made it really stand out. It took a lot of seconds for the flame to die and by then I had backed way up from the heat that was generated. I stood there waiting for the sirens that thankfully never came. I guess its good to get along with your neighbors,lol. It was dumb but it was also Awsome with a capital A. I still shake my head and laugh out loud every time it come to mind. So the good advice above is fertilizer.

I can only see Naomi shaking "her" head......LOL

Let me tell you about the time we set off A 50/50 mix of unknown ball
powder found in an Uncles garage and pine saw dust. Poured maybe
6 lbs of it down a chuck hole. It was sort of uneventful until a day later
when smoke was seen yards away coming out of the ground. Caught a
tree root system to smouldering. Not quite as big as Centralia, but had
me worried none the less......Yeah, young and stupid !!

 

[Silver_Is_Money]

I'm fairly certain that Alliant, Hodgdon, and others recommend against spreading powder in the yard or the garden.

 

[Fuj]

I'm fairly certain that Alliant, Hodgdon, and others recommend against spreading powder in the yard or the garden.

With all the crap in the MSDS sheets nowadays. I would not be
eating out of my garden......

 

[Webster]

With all the crap in the MSDS sheets nowadays. I would not be
eating out of my garden......

If you put a 1# can of black powder in the truck of your car with some 2 feet of fuse so you could safely ignite it in a plowed field somewhere and the highway Patrol looked in your trunk, they would probably charge you with bomb making material and intent to harm people.

 

[RabbitSlayer]

I think you will be fine spreading it outside. When I vacuum the carpet in the gun room im always waiting for the vacuum to catch fire but not yet lol

 

[Coyotefurharvester]

They hand out crack/meth pipes, pot grows in state forests. I think smoking is legal.

 

[ebb]

You all act like it's nuclear waste! Every time the Ukrainians and Russians fire one cannon they burn 50 plus lbs of the same stuff. If it was dangerous out elected officials would never use it or let us, have it.

 

[dellet]

You could always take it to a Brazilian police range for disposal

 

[snert]

You could always take it to a Brazilian police range for disposal