Wulfmann wrote: ↑Sat Oct 09, 2021 9:14 am
Smokeless powder does not "explode"
Welding and reloading in the same room? Are you kidding me?
If there was 100 pounds of actual black powder then that makes sense as the house exploded not caught fire and then exploded
I do keep a fire extinguisher in my reloading room. Just common sense IMO
I also load only the powder I need for the sitting in my hopper and only the 100 primers for the Dillon primer tube are at my press the rest across the room
My main powder stash is the proper wood cabinet while my small ready powder open containers are in a small wood wall mounted cabinet
Dillon has sold over 750 reloading presses and considering the many such companies I would say there are easily a million reloaders likely more and fires /events are extremely rare
Smokeless powders get harder to ignite with age while black powder becomes more and more unstable with age. Ask the USS Maine
Surprised Xiden didn't show up for a photo op and claims we need to ban reloading
You are right. They said something like 6 lbs of powder exploded I call BS on this and that fire marshal is an idiot. Smokeless power burns it does not explode. Unless you are trying to do something to make it explode. As you said Black powder explodes and 6 lbs of that did not blow up that house that way. That man was doing something illegal and it went boom.
I knew a fire marshal that worked a fire at a business that stored 50 lb cubes of shortening they cooked with. It was like crisco shortening. The stupid fool said it was a pour pattern. I told him he was a darn fool. That was where they store about 10 cubes of this stuff and it melted in the fire. He was a fire marshal and claimed he did not know what crisco shortening was. He said he always cooked with olive oil. This guy was in his fifties to and that was 15 years ago. I believe some of these guys are paid off by the insurance companies.
When I heard reloading and 6 lbs of powder blew up his house and fire marshal called it. What stupid idiots.
Oh yeah when getting rid of some really really old powders from gun craft. We pitched 1 pound plastic containers into fire and ran like hell. It just flashed/burned real fast no boom. Nothing like black powder I in my cannon
I just don't see it happening unless he was trying to build a bomb or something. Even then looking at damage he'd be dead. But he darn sure was not just reloading ammo.