Strangely enough, I’ve a harder time taking medium snuffs over finer ones. Take Sparrow green label for instance, I can take it all day, barely thinking about it, but when I grab Toque or something that is supposedly better for beginners, I end up sputtering with the stuff in my throat, at least once. Strange.
I was just about to say the same, matsnuffs! I got quite comfortable with Garrett and Rooster, but then when I took my first pinch of Toque I ended up dusting my throat and coughing! Love the flavors tho, no question there…
When I started I could get W.E. Garrett locally only so that was what I knew as nasal snuff I could not do it the first time, but I really liked the potential but I made an order to Nicotine rush and got a bunch of moister snuffs like F&T Princes Special, Maccoboy, DeK. A/P really liked thoes for a while but then I turned to the McChrystals O&G which I would say is a medium but more towards the dry and am loving/loved it (just finished the tin)so my next bet is Toque Berwick Brown and lime toast so maby I just like variety. I agree with Juxtapose the moist snuffs work well as training wheels to the dryer snuffs, they allow you to with less control use the scotches and the like. I was following O&G with Clove which I have a tendancy to shoot down the back of my throat but with the O&G as a forerunner it hits perfect and stays where it should.
I don’t know if it is a question of dry and moist so much as fine and course. GH Kendal Brown is a course dry snuff and it never hits the back of my throat, and with WOS #22 I have to be careful. Both are dry and are favorites of mine.
started dry. and i am pretty sure ill stay dry.
I also started using dry snuffs, but have found over time, that I do like an occasional moist pinch, but I can’t do moist for an all-day snuff! I have tons of moist snuff sitting in my fridge, which I will probably never get through, because I have developed an obsession with American Scotches :o) But I do like a good Schmalzler.
I started out with both moist and dry snuffs, I think both styles have their place. Ntsu and SG’s Irish “D” Light both satisfy my needs at different times!
I like snuffs that are ground up really fine into powder so I am mostly sniffing something dry. However, I do like a fine ground snuff that also has some moisture to it, I just don’t have a big selection to choose from at the moment. Also with the finer dryer snuffs I don’t need to blow my nose as often and this I like .
I like mediums for all day use, and dry for wake-up bumps. 
The true connoisseur would have a taste for the whole range, nyuk-nyuk. No seriously, I just made a batch of Toast with Rose, and it’s wet, but I think that knowing the basis of what a toast is adds to my being impressed with my own concoction. A wet toast, if you can see it. On the other hand, there was a thread talking about the different beast of an aired-out Toque, I have met this beast and know the difference between the fresh from the mail-box toffee and a aired-out pinch; both highly enjoyable depending on the mood.
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That Dholakia White sure is some dry stuff. Whew. I’ve followed the progression of many others from medium grind/med moisture to finer and drier and it still goes that way on a daily basis. I think that my ability (or better yet my addiction) to take massive pinches in the AM and during the day when I’m hours between toots lends itself to this. If I had to pick one though I’d go dry and learn to deal with it.
I’ve found some glycerine suppositories for use with babies. I’ve drilled a small hole in one and filled it with Ntsu. Now, with this up my backside, a Nick & Johnny in my lip and a pinch of Quit in my nose, I’m really on a nicotine trip. (Don’t try this at home)
Pierter!?!?!?!?!? Are you serious!?!?!?!?!?
+2^ silliest comment ever.
LOL Leave it to Pieter.
pierer has anyone ever told you that you have an addictive personality. Which is fancy talk to say you’re a charming fellow I think.
Pieter, you are forgetting the bruton’s + baking soda in the eye.
Pieter. You’re killing me. lol! For the most part, I agree, I like them dry. With the exception of a few. Ao 1860. That one made me sneeze even before the pinch was finished, then I would keep sneezing and sneezing and sneezing, then start wheezing. I forgot all about it for about a year. Recently, I re-hydrated it, and it grew to like double in volume, and the great thing is, I can now enjoy it, very much. It is wonderful.
I find if I snuff a very moist snuff, like Princes, my nose just wells up with moisture, and it doesn’t last long before I have to blow.