OT- Is propellant edible?

Otto · Post by **Otto** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 5:52 pm

Long story, serious question. Don't worry, I'm sticking with Cheezits. They're cheaper.

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:01 pm

I have heard stories, but can not confirm, that black powder was sometimes a substitute for salt....I wonder if it had a chilling effect on the birth rate, what with the saltpiter.

Tycer · Post by **Tycer** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:15 pm

I have, but only when I was too close. Still kickin'

Beaker · Post by **Beaker** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:30 pm

Blackpowder?, Yeah, but only if you want to make yourself sick or you like the taste of charcol (amorphous carbon black), elemental sulfer and potassium nitrate.

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:47 pm

I have heard stories of people feeding gun powder to their dogs to make them meaner. I don't know if it works.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:51 pm

Rusty wrote:I have heard stories of people feeding gun powder to their dogs to make them meaner. I don't know if it works.

Yea! Me too----It has to be an old "wives tale" but....................I have a lot of dogs who are always scrounging for food and they like to spend time around my loading bench ...........and.......................those buggers are downright mean.

I dono, maybe they get it from my wife

--------------------------Sixgun

Rimfire McNutjob · Post by **Rimfire McNutjob** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:53 pm

I would bet that ingesting a nitrocellulose and/or nitroglycerin based propellant would cause and excess of nitrogen oxides in your system and result in vasodilation. If you happen to be having severe chest pains at the time, a teaspoon of Accurate #2 might keep you around for the trip to the hospital, but otherwise I would stay away from seasoning with any of the smokeless powders.

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:57 pm

Hmmmm....charcoal: People take it to clean out their liver......Sulpher is a kind of bowel loosener, and nitre is actually used in upper respertory(sp?) infections to ease congestion and coughing....... Kind of a 3-in-One Oil in a shotshell......

Rimfire McNutjob · Post by **Rimfire McNutjob** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 7:03 pm

Can't wait for AJ to see this thread.

TedH · Post by **TedH** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 7:27 pm

BlaineG wrote:Hmmmm....charcoal: People take it to clean out their liver......Sulpher is a kind of bowel loosener, and nitre is actually used in upper respertory(sp?) infections to ease congestion and coughing....... Kind of a 3-in-One Oil in a shotshell......

You better get a hold of some marketing people right away! I think you're onto something!

Old Time Hunter · Post by **Old Time Hunter** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 7:54 pm

Rimfire McNutjob wrote:I would bet that ingesting a nitrocellulose and/or nitroglycerin based propellant would cause and excess of nitrogen oxides in your system and result in vasodilation. If you happen to be having severe chest pains at the time, a teaspoon of Accurate #2 might keep you around for the trip to the hospital, but otherwise I would stay away from seasoning with any of the smokeless powders.

Actually saw this in a medical journal.....nitrocellulose/nitroglycerin based smokeless powder as anti-arythmetic(spelling?), that and a couple of pills made out of acetylsalicylic acid (pure aspirin) go along ways to helping someone in pinch having a heart attack.

gundownunder · Post by **gundownunder** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 8:45 pm

I can see it now,

"SOMEBODY HELP ME, i'M HAVING A HEART ATTACK"

" YEH NO WORRIES MATE, HANG ON WHILE i GRAB MY GUN"

That should put him at easy right away

piller · Post by **piller** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 9:30 pm

If you eat much of the smokeless powder and do not have heart trouble, then you will know what a severe migraine feels like. As one who has had a 6 month long migraine cluster when younger, you don't want any migraine at all. Trust me on this. And, no, it wasn't from eating gunpowder, just chocolate.

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 9:55 pm

Rimfire McNutjob wrote:I would bet that ingesting a nitrocellulose and/or nitroglycerin based propellant would cause and excess of nitrogen oxides in your system and result in vasodilation. If you happen to be having severe chest pains at the time, a teaspoon of Accurate #2 might keep you around for the trip to the hospital, but otherwise I would stay away from seasoning with any of the smokeless powders.

No, no, no, you have it all wrong - Accurate #2 is clearly inferior to Bullseye - any first year medical student knows that...!

I agree that any bioavailable nitroglycerine would likely give the person either a) relief from their angina, or b) near-syncope and severe headache. As for black powder - yuck...

Old Time Hunter · Post by **Old Time Hunter** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:28 pm

AJMD429 wrote:
Rimfire McNutjob wrote:I would bet that ingesting a nitrocellulose and/or nitroglycerin based propellant would cause and excess of nitrogen oxides in your system and result in vasodilation. If you happen to be having severe chest pains at the time, a teaspoon of Accurate #2 might keep you around for the trip to the hospital, but otherwise I would stay away from seasoning with any of the smokeless powders.
No, no, no, you have it all wrong - Accurate #2 is clearly inferior to Bullseye - any first year medical student knows that...!

I agree that any bioavailable nitroglycerine would likely give the person either a) relief from their angina, or b) near-syncope and severe headache. As for black powder - yuck...

That's why you take the two aspirin.

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:33 pm

Well, just don't use it as icing on your wife's birthday cake with all the candles.

piller · Post by **piller** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 11:20 pm

KirkD, don't you know that you are supposed to somehow put too few candles on your wife's birthday cake? All the candles, that is a good way to make her explode even without gunpowder.

adirondakjack · Post by **adirondakjack** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 12:54 am

I dunno about edible, but I do know that Unique will tattoo the white of yer eye if ya get a flake stuck to it. I had a nice round dark grey spot on the white of an eye for a couple of years after an errant flake got stuck to my eye and dissolved before I figured out why my eye was itching. It was on that day I stopped using canned air to clean my press.....

Thunder50 · Post by **Thunder50** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 2:26 pm

I would imagine that Bullseye would be better, as I believe it has a higher nitroglycerin percentage. Maybe 1/8th teaspoon I would imagine, at the most, maybe not even that much. Don't think I will try it though.

SJPrice · Post by **SJPrice** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 2:41 pm

Rosie O"Donnell uses it for toothpaste. Thats why she is always shooting her mouth off.

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 3:25 pm

piller wrote:KirkD, don't you know that you are supposed to somehow put too few candles on your wife's birthday cake? All the candles, that is a good way to make her explode even without gunpowder.

Good idea! That way I won't have to get in a sweat wondering if the whole house is going to go up in flames.

Beaker · Post by **Beaker** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:07 pm

Bullseye is great, its one of my favorite brands of BBQ sauce.

stretch · Post by **stretch** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 12:40 pm

Ahhh, a plethora of entertaining and educational responses.

I would have been disappointed with anything else from this bunch!

-Stretch

awp101 · Post by **awp101** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 1:20 pm

A tough old badlanders rancher once told his grandson that the secret to long life was to sprinkle a little gunpowder on his oatmeal every morning. The grandson did religiously, and he lived to be 93. When he died, he left 14 children, 28 grandchildren, and 35 great-grandchildren...and a 15 foot hole in the wall of the crematorium....

oic0 · Post by **oic0** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 2:43 pm

awp101 wrote:A tough old badlanders rancher once told his grandson that the secret to long life was to sprinkle a little gunpowder on his oatmeal every morning. The grandson did religiously, and he lived to be 93. When he died, he left 14 children, 28 grandchildren, and 35 great-grandchildren...and a 15 foot hole in the wall of the crematorium....

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