Getting rid of spilt powder

[brisb]

It was inevitable I suppose, but I've finally gone and knocked over a bottle of powder

Didn't lose heaps, maybe 100g or something after collecting it it's riddled with little bits of fluff or grit or other debris from the table/floor so I wont use it.

Don't want to just throw it in the bin though?

Suggestions for disposing of it safely?

[reddog]

Throw it on your lawn its fertilizer

[remnt]

Throw it on your lawn its fertilizer

That's the popular method.

For a small amount too you could just burn it off somewhere safe?

[Norton]

For a small amount too you could just burn it off somewhere safe?

For 100g I'd just scatter it on the grass too.

Nothing could go wrong after this.

[portph]

Nothing could go wrong after this.

Not worried about the neighbourhood delinquents picking it up with tweezers and getting up to trouble ?

[maxi]

As well as getting rid of it, it's meant to be good fertilizer apparently...

[Vati]

As well as getting rid of it, it's meant to be good fertilizer apparently...

I'd like to see a botanist or someone weigh in on this.

Sounds like something some powder manufacturer has been telling people to make them chuck out spilt powder and buy more

[AusC]

Sounds like something some powder manufacturer has been telling people to make them chuck out spilt powder and buy more

That's like the whole barrel break in thing.

I read something somewhere from a few old time gun smiths in the states saying they've basically started the whole thing of saying you need to put 300 rounds through a barrel to break it in so that people would go through barrels faster and they'd get more work.

[ebr love]

I read something somewhere from a few old time gun smiths in the states saying they've basically started the whole thing of saying you need to put 300 rounds through a barrel to break it in so that people would go through barrels faster and they'd get more work.

Sounds right

I can't imagine anything worse than buying a new rifle and shooting it once then cleaning it 300 times over or whatever these fkn know-it-alls say you have to do.

If it shoots sub moa out of the box, what the hell do they think wasting 300 rounds through it is going to do?

Idiots...

[Sakoh]

I can't imagine anything worse than buying a new rifle and shooting it once then cleaning it 300 times over or whatever these fkn know-it-alls say you have to do.

Or waiting for the solvent to "penetrate the barrel".

There was a bloke at my range the other week breaking in a new target rifle of some sort.

He'd shoot one round, put a solvent patch through it, then time for 15 minutes before he could fire it again.

After waiting he just shot it as well... didn't even put a clean patch through to take out whatever he thought was coming out after 15 minutes.

I was there for 2 hours and I reckon he shot about 6 rounds in between all his stuffing around.

[Hercl]

Or waiting for the solvent to "penetrate the barrel".

Did you explain that it's not meant to dissolve the barrel