rabid wombat
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So, I'm guessing a cardboard box on a shelf is a bad idea?
better than ammo cans….
So, I'm guessing a cardboard box on a shelf is a bad idea?
Not necessarily… if you don’t have any concerns with unauthorized access it might be just fine… I don’t really have any such concerns so I’m ok with that footlocker. If I did, I’d consider @Jackrabbit1957 suggestion of a paint locker. Pretty good idea actually…So, I'm guessing a cardboard box on a shelf is a bad idea?
Over the span of 7.5‘ to the ceiling of your basement
The room spiders grow in.Ummm, what's a basement?
The room spiders grow in.
I wouldn’t sweat it if you have legitimate needs... Anyone buying it for nefarious purposes I hope they get hung before they can do anything… although I don’t have lots of confidence frankly.I know several farmers and agriculturalists who say that ever since Timmy lit up the Murrah (April ‘95) they are very careful not to buy too much fertilizer at any one time.
I once tried to burn 3 ounces of black powder by bending over the tossing a lit match into a small pile on a brick.
I lost the hair on both arms and my eye brows in the 6 foot flash before I could even take a step back.
oh yeah I did something similar, way back when I was more dumb than now. I lost hair, and had nasty blistering over much of my right hand and up my forearm.I once tried to burn 3 ounces of black powder by bending over the tossing a lit match into a small pile on a brick.
I lost the hair on both arms and my eye brows in the 6 foot flash before I could even take a step back. If you have ever used gasoline to light a fire, black powder has to be 20 times faster.
At least you are not a dumb idiot and you lived by your mistakes, too just like me.Black powder doesnt burn.... every bit of it goes up RIGHT NOW.
Im still an idiot, but Im sure not dumb enough to do that again
All I can say is it was in a open area, on a safe fire brick, very near my wife's flower garden, in the middle of summer and the flowers had quit blooming and were in need of water. I don't think she noticed. After all, I watered them after that which made her happy that I was so thoughtful. And I didn't burn anything down. Remember, Patrick McManus said "Real Horses don't go Oink!"It's a wonder you didn't burn more than that. 3 ounces is 1,312 grains.
Being pedantic here, you can't detonate black powder because it doesn't. Deflagrates. Might be hard to tell the difference if you are sitting on top of it when it goes off....I can’t find it now but I seem to recall there was a plot in the 1860s to drive a wagon under the White House and detonate it while Lincoln and his cabinet were in session in a room above. I think something like 25 or 50 lbs were to be used. And yet I think one can legally keep up to 50 lbs of black powder. I only fire no larger than .50-70 Government compressed in a case behind a 450 grain cast bullet. And so, an apples to oranges comparison, I suppose.
What exactly is safe. I was told of a guy that built a cannon and thought it would be fun to take it up north to his cottage and shoot it on the 4 of July. Well, he did, thinking the cannon ball would make a big splash in the lake. Well,... it didn't. It went over the lake and landed in someone's front yard on the other side of the lake. The shooter was hauled in to the local magistrate, who fine the guy $50 for disturbing the peace. Then he said get that ($#%& cannon out of his district and never bring it back or he would lock him up and throw away the key!I store mine in a Cannon pointed in a safe direction