So, feeling adventuresome, I slowly dehydrated a little Longhorn Finecut Natural and ground it to a medium-fine consistency. Re-moisturized slightly, and up the nostrils with it. Well, let’s just say I got a definite whiff of something “medicated,” sort of a very light menthol, maybe. Not bad, but a little odd, let’s say. Non-clogging, though, and pretty well-behaved, otherwise. Nothing at all like Copenhagen, which has a very nice, fermented, (dare I say “winey?”) note in the nose.
I tried the same thing with the same thing… and I thought the “smell” was more a chemical type, and I dumped it. Thinking drying out oral moist snuff is not good for making dry nasal snuff.
Yeah, this goes into the jam jar with all the other oddball stuff, in hopes that dilution and mixing with others will sort of even the whole thing out. If not, then I’ve got base stock for insecticide.
I would have dumped it and not mixed it in with proper nasal snuffs.
Trust me, there are no proper nasal snuffs in that jam jar; just rejected experiments, using a range of non-conventional sources of base material.
I have a similar jamjar!
Mine is a plastic tub that gets all the half-finished dip cans, old dry snus, dried up cigars, and looseleaf chew. Everything gets mixed and pulverized to pass through a .2mm screen Then I add a binder and flavor. Et voila, snuffburgers!
Aha! so now we have part of your recipe! Them snuffburgers are good! 
Yeah, about these snuffburgers - very interesting idea. I’ve heard of something similar tried out late 19th early 20th centuries, but with those snuff tablets, you had to spit occasionally. Very slick, your version, from what I read. BTW, where’d you get the sieve?
The sieve came from an online supplier for herbalists and for Traditional Chinese Medicine. Not on my own computer right now, and I can’t remember the vendor’s name. I’ll have to get back to you on that. It was a bargain under $10 and made from stainless!
I’m in the field - I bet it’s from UPC, huh? Tiny world; I work for a TCM school; I’ll dig out their catalog. Bet you got your grinder there, too, huh? I never thought to use our gear there, but it makes sense, doesn’t it?
Update on the Longhorn Snuff experiment: I rehydrated it rather heavily, using distilled water mixed with about 1 gram of potassium bicarbonate, heated it to about 200 F in the oven, to dry it abit, did a quick “moist grind” with mortar and pestle, and sealed in a small glass jar, which was then placed in the garage, where it’s over 110 F right now (love those Texas Summers)! After about 8 hours, went out to check it again - smelled wonderful, good whiff of ammonia, etc. Air-dried it, and gave it the schnoz test again; no weird taste at all, and, in fact, rather pleasant, truth be told, like a slightly stronger version of the Garrett scotch snuff, for those who like that sort of thing. So, it seems like the trick is to get it to undergo a bit of a ferment before trying it nasally. I wonder whether the off-taste has anything to do with the company using tobacco that wasn’t fully fermented?
Guanxi88 - You can find the sieve here: http://goacupuncture.com/cgi-bin/ie/ProductDetail.pl?SkuNo=E-2D Still only $9.
@stitch: Yep, that’s UPC, all right. I threw up a thread the same day about their grinders and such. Got one in their that moves pounds per hours, down to 180 mesh, with continuous feed. I tell you what, if there weren’t so damned many legal and regulatory hoops to jump through, a fellow could set himself up as a snuff-maker without too much expense. BTW - the snuffburgers, they aren’t made on a tableting machine by any chance, are they?