Weird, but ever notice?
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entropy
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Mine always does, whether I'm shooting BP or smokeless. 
grampajack
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Well folks, there goes the forum. It was nice while it lasted but it's all downhill from here.
JK. Seriously, though, don't worry about it. The BP condenses in your mucus membranes and you will get hints of it throughout the next day whenever it gets stirred up. You think your, uh, vapors smell like sulfur because the sulfur is in your nostrils already, and there's a certain similarity between the two in that both have a rotten egg odor to them. Your wife is probably just smelling it on your clothes, in your hair, etc.
JK. Seriously, though, don't worry about it. The BP condenses in your mucus membranes and you will get hints of it throughout the next day whenever it gets stirred up. You think your, uh, vapors smell like sulfur because the sulfur is in your nostrils already, and there's a certain similarity between the two in that both have a rotten egg odor to them. Your wife is probably just smelling it on your clothes, in your hair, etc.
We used to eat match-heads to repel mosquitoes. 2 or 3 a day, the bugs are repelled by the
sulfur exuding from your pores. Needless to say, while you're in the woods it's OK, but you
weren't popular in elevators or at parties. It always screwed up my digestion, though. Not really sure if it
put any additional oomph in the stern-blaster, though.
sulfur exuding from your pores. Needless to say, while you're in the woods it's OK, but you
weren't popular in elevators or at parties. It always screwed up my digestion, though. Not really sure if it
put any additional oomph in the stern-blaster, though.
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I don't doubt it! I would pay admission to see your doctor's expression while you explained this to him.
Man, talk about going to your doctor for some trivial ****...I don't doubt it! I would pay admission to see your doctor's expression while you explained this to him.
Panzerschwein
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I find canned oysters and beans does it for me.
whughett
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Baby sitting my sons 8 year step daughter, she gave me a hug and announced I smelled like "gun powder". I had been to the range earlier that day shooting cap and ball. Her gran parents are shooters so assume its a familiar odor.
whughett
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Least it be misconstrued my clothing smelled like gun powder, I'm not in the habit of breaking wind in front of lady folk.
Officers'Wife
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I never noticed, but then our well has enough sulfur to make the devil himself feel at home so the odor is just a fact of farm life.
whughett
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Way off thread, but good to see you posting again. Lived in a farm house in southern Ohio. Our house well was good pure water bust had a tendency to dry up if the summer was long and dry. An auxiliary deeper well lasted longer but wasn't close to the house it too would dry up. Another hand dug well, located some 1/4 mile from the house never went dry but was so sulfured even the cows avoided it until it was the only thing available. Hauling up buckets full for the livestock was a daily chore until the rains came and the creeks flowed again. The house did with hauled in water by tanker truck. Course no indoor plumbing, out house and baths on Saturday night only, so didn't need a lot of water. Perhaps my point being as Officers wife put it, off odors was a way of life on the farm. A little black powder smell and I feel young again.
Panzerschwein
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"Gun powder" is what they used to call black powder before smokeless came about in the 19th century.
armoredman
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PaapG, thanks for the laugh - I needed that!
1stmarine
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I put some lavender in my reloads. My wife likes in better with the fusion of aromas. lol
Armored farmer
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Yes.
I have also noticed the same unusual phenomenon after cleaning a mess of quail. I know....I'm not making it up! My old Quail hunting pard and have talked about this before. We decided we had been Quail hunting too much, and were beginning to turn into Quail ourselves.
entropy
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So, did you break the covey?
ThomasT
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Armored Farmer my bud and I have said the same thing for years. After cleaning a mess of Doves the next time you toot your own horn it smells just like Dove cleaning all over again. And eating a lot of smokey BBQ does it too. You can almost set off the smoke detector.
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