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[fiver]

some powders smell umm a little less stenchy when you open the jug.
some are less worse when you fire them too.
you ever smell a paper base wad combined with something like titewad?....
blech,,,, i got a strong stomach, but there is something about that smell and burning cat piss that just don't work.

 

[Ian]

I don't even wanna know the story behind burning cat piss. The Tulammo primers have a distinctly putrid smell right out of the package; it's along the lines of Pyrodex but a lot worse.

 

[Bret4207]

I am far too well acquainted with the hot or burning cat pee smell. The only thing worse, to me anyway, is the smell of a pot or pan with a "bakelite" type handle that is burning. My late MIL was famous for setting things like that on fire.

 

[CZ93X62]

Very little time-in-grade with Rooskikh ammo, and none with The Rodina's primers. I have smelled 7.62 x 54R, 7.62 x 38R, and 9 x 18 Makarov ammo from Russia when fired, and there was a slight sickly-putrid smell to the smoke. I no longer worry about that sort of thing, though--as predicted in 1981 by the neurologists that fixed my gunshot wound to the face and sinuses, at some point my sense of smell would diminish or disappear. That occurred about 6 years ago. This "Getting old" bit is not for sissy-la-las. I still have some sense of taste left, but it has diminished about 50%-80%, depending upon the food item.

 

[popper]

Bakelite = soy beans. Used to be a factory in N KC that made it, horrid smell.