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I have just finished pulling bullets from several big bore cartridges. What is the best way to dispose of the powder? Anything wrong with flushing it down the toilet and into my septic? "There are worse memorials to a life well-lived than a pair of elephant tusks." Robert Ruark | ||
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Just go throw it out in the grass in your front yard. | |||
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SBT I prefer to use matches  Cheers  / JOHAN | ||
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I have the same prob, I have 1/2 lb or so of AA2520 and no damm use for it any more !!! I rather through a match to it than through it out.... Dwindling the worlds lead supply one cat at a time!! | |||
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Put it in a coffee can and throw matches at it from a distance. Be sure you are far enough away from the house and any low hanging branches. Pistol powder throws about an 8 foot flame. Really slow rifle powder is boring. Travis F. | |||
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I'm always picking up loaded rounds at the range and I just pull the bullets and save the powder in a old can. When it gets too full I just pour a line along the cracks in the sidewalk or driveway and light it. Smokeless powder burns so slow that there's no real hazard and it gets rid of the weeds. Frank "I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953 NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite | |||
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put it on an anthill and let them incorporate it for a while.... | |||
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Spread it thinly for fertilizer on yard or garden. | |||
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If it is pistol powder, put it into an IMR 4381 can, shake it to mix the powders and leave it next to the coat rack at the gun show  .lawndart  | |||
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"Bitte, trinks du nicht das Wasser. Dahin haben die Kuhen gesheissen." | |||
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Seriously, this stuff is some of the best fertilizer, just spread it where it will do some good. | |||
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Seems like modern powder is made to NOT decompose easily...so how long does it take to break down when partially buried in the lawn? I hear stories about bringing up WWII ammo from shipwreacks and the cases are cracked and corroded enough to open with a fingernail, and the powder lights immediately and easily when hit with a match... I need to run an experiment or 3, but my gut instinct is that it is quite a while, even in our S. Texas heat! Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. | |||
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CDH, Having been in South Texas in the summer, you had better finish those experiments before June, or it may ignite on it's own! Mike | |||
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I have not run any experiments so this is mostly conjecture, but what causes other organic compounds in the soil to decompose? Microbes! All those tiny balls, flakes or cylinders are getting gobbled up by microbes releasing NPK into the soil for the plants to uptake. I don't know about it being the best fertilizer but I can damn sure guarantee it's the most expensive! If you store your gunpowder in a cool, dry enviroment like is recommended it will last for decades. | |||
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Hey, are you the guy who has been leaving loaded rounds of 30-06 at the range stuffed with a full charge of Bullseye powder? | |||
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I'm too much of a fire bug. Pour a long line of it out and touch a match to one end. Keep it a distance from any thing combustible, it is a hot flame. | |||
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I put all my disposable powder into a clearly marked can until I get about a pound. When the desired amount is aquired it goes into a pickle jar or any glass or metal container with a slightly resticted neck and drop a lit punk or cigarette in and let her go. The results are quite spectacular. | |||
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I think he works on the show "Candid Camera". | |||
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Work it into cigerettes and give them to people who always leach a smoke.Its even more fun on the homeless beggars on street corners.Especially if they are really drunk. Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war; That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial. | |||
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mix it with tannerite... | |||
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