Black Powder and Static Electric

[Ruger Redhawk]

I received this from a good friend.I thought I would post it since allot of us shoot and handle Black Powder. I found it to be quite interesting.

Ruger Redhawk





www.ctmuzzleloaders.com/mlexperiments/sparks/sparks.html
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[quigleysharps4570]

That is a good one. Puzzles me as to why everyone says not to use a plastic hopper for your powder because of static...Swiss and Graf come in a plastic can these days so I don't see the deal.

["BIGTYME"]

I think the wosrt story I have evr been told was a man ( my gunsmith) was hunting near a power line with black powder and it went off just from the static that put off. So I have learned by someelses misfortune never hunt under or close to power lines when using BP rifles wether it be powder or the pellets