There is no truth to the rumor that Dick Dastardly is

[El Paso Pete]

switchin to smokeless powder.  While the wire stories put out today by AP, BBC, CNN, and FOX that DD was seen carryin a box of .38 special smokeless ammo today at Hang 'em High are true, speculations that he is switchin to smokeless are unfounded.  He put on good show show today with his .44 mag black loads topped off by a demonstration of how to put down knock-downs with his 10 ga.  Shootin was held up a few minutes while the ground crew reattached the knock-downs to their foundations and welded on some parts DD blew off.    I think we should try to quench this rumor and I am sure that DD will have good explanation when he gets back, why he was carryin this smokeless ammo.   Most likely for a sick friend or somethin.

[Lucky Irish Tom]

Maybe he won it as one of them door prizes and was takin to give it a proper burial!

[Cuts Crooked]

Had it happen ta me oncet! Won a box of that wierd smokeeless stuff! Gave the lead a proper burial in the berm and then helped the brass be reborn wif The One True Powder 

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[Dick Dastardly]

Drat, here I am, a floundering father of an all Black Powder Posse and cought red handed by the poparizzi and now a proven scoundrel and villan.  But wait, there must be an explanation.  They're waiting, they're waiting, they're WAITING! So, what is the reasonable explanation of the posession of the low down heathen fad smokeyless powder ammo?

I won it.

It was my door prize.

Now, I'm faced with shame and ruin.  What to do?

I got home and attempted to dispose of the stuff honorably, but my wonderful lil Browning 92 simply won't feed the stuff.  I'll have to wait till ol Sam'l Remington gets my brace of RVs back to me to properly burry the stuff.  What with skimpy lube groves, heathen powder, unknown crayon lube . . . . . . Not even a decent box.

After I do properly dispose of the innards, I'll properly load that brass with a compressed charge of FFFg Holy Black under a fine Snakebite boolit and raise particular hell with some unsuspecting steel varments.

That's my story and I'm stickn' to  it.

DD-DLoS

[Lou Graham]

Are there any photograhs?
Was The National Inquirer there?
I sense a blackmail opportunity! 

[Dick Dastardly]

Howdy Lady Lou,

It's hard to blackmail a lowdown, bottom dealin', philanderin scoundrel gambler.  Nope, not a red cent would he cough up.  He enjoys the notariety since it enhances his mystery at the card table.  I suspect ya would have to go for one of his more sensitive areas, like not returnin' his spent 16ga cheddite low brass hulls at a shootn' match.  Yup, that'd get to him. . .

BTW, if yer in a real jam I kin spare a hundred.  I know that's a drop in the bucket, but it might get ya thru a match or two.

DD-DLoS

[Pukin Dog]

I too won a box of .38 special smokeless.  All that did was add 3# of useless weight to my guncart.  Had to ask 5 people if they wanted em before I could offload them.  He was a brand new shooter so maybe I did some good!   This is the 3rd time in a row I've won something totally worthless to me.  Just lucky I guess

My dang brother wins a brick of large pistol primers, now that is a prize I could have used. 

[Silver Creek Slim]

Are there any photograhs?
Was The National Inquirer there?
I sense a blackmail opportunity! 

I didn't get any pictures of it either (didn't have the camera along), but the image is seared in my brain.  It was a box of Black Hills Ammo. 
But, I must confess. A pard gave me a partial box of nitro .44WCF shells. I snuck it into the truck before the WTMJ helicopter crew could see it and spread unfounded rumors about me. 

Slim

[Lucky Irish Tom]

Perhaps DD was misled by the first prominent word on the box, would tend to lead one to believe that it was loaded with the one true powder!

[Dick Dastardly]

Truth is, it's cuz. . . .

I never count my money while sittin' at the table.
There'll be time enuf for countin'. . . . when the dealin's done.

DD-DLoS