Socked Powder?

Can anyone tell me what this is. Is it done to get the dust and fines out of powder? How is it done? Any advantage to it? Thanks.

Take an old paper Quaker Oats container, and add a couple dozen one inch squarers of cut up white cotton socks then add half a can of bp put on the lid and shake rattle and roll, the socks will be very dark and a lot of excess graphite will be missing from your powder, you will have to determine for your self as to any advantage in fowling buildup I notices a difference when I tried it a few years ago.

People will do as described by TG although the first that I heard of this was actually putting the powder in a sock. The idea is that there is too much graphite in the powder. I never bothered with it. I just ignore the grayish black smutz (as Dutch terms it) that I get after even a good cleaning.

CS

Zonie tried that.

But after he fired a few rounds a team of UN Chemical Warfare troops showed up in bio-hazard suits and confiscated his powder . . . and socks.

Zonie tried that.

But after he fired a few rounds a team of UN Chemical Warfare troops showed up in bio-hazard suits and confiscated his powder . . . and socks.

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Did he try to shoot his socks? :haha: :haha: :haha: :hmm:

Zonie tried that.

But after he fired a few rounds a team of UN Chemical Warfare troops showed up in bio-hazard suits and confiscated his powder . . . and socks.

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I hear it makes your powder smell like feet...

I can vouch for the graphite clinging to the material in the sock, we use micro-fine graphite in the rubber industry and it gets everywhere, turns our blue work uniforms a dark slate gray...

Zonie tried that.

But after he fired a few rounds a team of UN Chemical Warfare troops showed up in bio-hazard suits and confiscated his powder . . . and socks.

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I hear it makes your powder smell like feet...

I can vouch for the graphite clinging to the material in the sock, we use micro-fine graphite in the rubber industry and it gets everywhere, turns our blue work uniforms a dark slate gray...

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That sounds sorta slippery! :haha:

I think there's plenty of guys who could get their socks confiscated, you know bio-hazard, toxicity and all that.

Regards, sse

But make sure you dont go to an airport, be interesting to see how youd get out of being hauled off to jail for having "explosive sock device" with the current media, youd be on cnn in a few minutes.

Speakin of airports...you gave me an idea...I think next time I go through one I'll wear my breech cloth and leggins...oh yeah...snip some of the wife's hair off and sort of make a few fake scalps from it to put on my buckskin shirt... can't wait to see what will happen if I don't make it through one of those booths.. :crackup:

If the authorities stop ya, thats PROFILE'N and thats Illegal! Claim its yur NATIVE dress and just as good as Turbins and robes. :crackup: :crackup: :front:

I hear tell you can put powder in socks to remove excess graphite, is that true?

How would you get all of the grains out of the fibers?

What is the powder loss rate for doung this?

Is this where you can determine "Foot pounds of energy?"

Zonie tried that.

But after he fired a few rounds a team of UN Chemical Warfare troops showed up in bio-hazard suits and confiscated his powder . . . and socks.

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I hear it makes your powder smell like feet...

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Thar ye go's again, a tellin only haf o' tha story!

First off, whan Ah tryed ta sock ma powder, it didn't do much.
Seems it war a poorin out tha hole in tha end 'bout as fast as Ah kud poor it in tha top!
Than whan Ah tyed tha end up so's tha powder woodn't leek out, Ah got called by ma wif, so Ah tyed tha top o' tha sock shut an sit it down on a stump, so's Ah kud go un see what she was a wantin.
Wal, u kno how em dogs lik socks what's been tyed up?
Yup, ole Max had been I'in it fer awhile whan Ah was a workin on it. As soon as Ah lef, he went an chomped down on it an was off an runnin, ah tossin it up in tha are un a katchen it in his mouth affore it kud hit tha ground!
Wal, Ah suppos it war ma falt fer yellin at him, but jus as he war goin past tha campfire he tossed it up, an Ah yelled, an he cut to tha rite an headed tords tha wash!
At sock o powder landed in tha fir un tha damdest explosion happened that ye ever saw!
It blue kindlin 30 yards, koles started a burnin holes in ma leen two, an it blue maws pot o Greens strate up in tha air 20 feet.
Than tha kids started yellin an cheerin cuz tha wooden't hav ta eat greens fer dinner!
Ma grabed tha shotgun an fired her off at tha disapeerin Max un Ah thout, dam! Now ah gots ta by anothar pound o powder!

Tha long an tha short o all this is don go poorin yer powder inter anithin ceptin yer powder horn or yer gunbarrel.

Now, whar an Ah gonna get anothar sock?

sse,
Maybe even cause that hoof(foot) & mouth(powder)
illness :hmm: :crackup: :hmm: :crackup: :hmm: :crackup:
snake-eyes :thumbsup: