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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
nope, this is the only kind of powder that goes anywhere near my face...
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Well, then you'll appreciate this story!
YEARS after my father died, my mother and I decided to clean out the bottom of his gun cabinet. A local gun shop had agreed to dispose of the old ammo and various boxes of stuff he had in there. My father dabbled in almost everything, and one of those things was muzzle-loading. (Do you know where this is going?)
Anyway, we blithely loaded up a bunch of boxes of stuff into the trunk of the car and headed off to the gun store, across hill and dale and bumpy railroad tracks...
When the owner of the shop started getting the boxes out of the car the color actually drained out of his face. Apparently there was a fairly large quantity of very old, and not very well stored, black powder in there.
They transported it carefully to the range, and blew it up for us. Who knew that stuff got so unstable when it gets damp/old? (Okay, probably you knew!)