I sure wouldn`t mean to say it didn`t happen ...I just sat back and put myself in a new blackpowder shooters shoes , I`ve taught alot of newbies to our sport , and some / most knew nothing about it or how to handle black powder .. This would be a scary thought to them , thinking just opening a can of Goex could spell the end for them ...not much fun there .
There was a story at a Rendevous , that a guy had a powder horn explode while he as wearing it around his neck ....they said it blew a hole in his chest , but he lived to fight another day ......after 6 months of the story being told , ( it just exploded for no reason ) come to find out , he had forgotten to put the end cap back on the horn and was takeing a smoke break with it still around his neck ....not a good pratice even with it capped .... So I`m thinking there may be more to this story than is being told . If it did indeed happen the way it`s told ..there needs to be a warning put out by Goex telling us what to do to releive the possibility of this happening again . Maybe wear rubber shoes and attach ourselves to a ground wire while opening a can .....see what I mean , think about how the new guys and how they feel reading this .
I really like reading about a new guy comming into the black powder shooting world and they just love it ... The powder horn story scared alot of new guys in my black powder club ...to the point of them thinking maybe we shouldn`t wear our powder horns much to dangerous and maybe they shouldn`t even stand close to a guy on the fireing line wearing one . I can just see them running for cover next time they see someone opening a can of Goex .