Pinch all day unless I got a tap box, then it is boxcar.
Why not both?
Off the back of hand or thumbnail is great training for whites. If you can take them off your nail without choking to death you can take big pinches the normal way without so much as clearing your throat.
Almost always pinch. If I’m using a tap box I sometimes use the boxcar method, but just as often tap the snuff into the palm of my hand and then pinch. Back of the hand is a disaster - I always end up wearing the snuff rather than sniffing it…
Being new to snuff, I prefer the control that I can exercise through pinching. Back of the hand is not only a ticket to a chest full of snuff, but anything other than a dry, fine grind tends to fly up my nose in clumps. The trials and tribulations of a newbie I guess.
Spoon.
Most time pinch
palm
Pinch for me. Greater control and better placement. Less messing about.
For me it comes down to what type of container I’m getting it out of. I use the back of the hand because I have tap boxes. I assume if one where to have a fancy flask you would use the same method.
Pinch is my usual choice, but sometimes I get it with my other finger and put it on my palm, but not that often.
I’m a recent covert to using a pinch. German snuffs get used from their tap boxes (If only Packard’s Club came in bulk!) on the back of the hand indoors or boxcared when I’m outdoors. For all but the Germans I’ll tap that last bit of snuff from my snuffbox out onto the back of my hand or my thumbnail, but mostly it’s the pinch for me!
I have recently found that once I transfer a days worth into a properly sized plastic travel container I find pinches work well- both for portion control and in warming it a bit. Until this came to be I would have stuck to saying boxcar from a tap box/tin or back of hand.
I can never handle pinch. I just end up with a ton of snuff all over my fingers and, a little in my nose. I prefer using my pipe tool spoon. I think it’s for reaming a pipe but, that’s why I have like 10 pipe tools also I lose things.
Also the box car method is just confusing when explained to me. Also sounds like it looks more shifty in public from what I under stand.
Pinches for small amounts, usually when I am already snusing. Back of hand for massive amounts when I’m just using snuff for my nic fix. I’m getting a bullet soon, so I will see how that works out and if I like it.
I have found that I take SG’s Black Rappee best from a boxcar/back of hand. I can really load up my nose with it. When I use a pinch, it just doesn’t work well. Probably due to its coarseness. I have just discovered Indian snuffs, and I go 50-50 pinch/back of hand. I find it’s also less obtrusive when I pinch at work. I don’t hide it, but I also don’t feel the need to tap into a boxcar and take snuff that way… In fact, I’m really liking generally how well a boxcar works to take snuff and not get into my brain and get a good amount.
Bullets to me so far seem to have harder to control. For ones I know will go strait down my through I tap it out onto the back of my hand from the bullet. A bullet to me seems to be able to keep it so I don’t have to constantly open a snuff box tin or something.
I have only been taking snuff for a couple of weeks but here’s what I do: Hedges - a small amount from back of hand, if out of doors a small pinch. Viking Blond - back of hand. Ditto for outside. Wilsons Best SP - Because it’s a lot finer I decant a small amount of snuff (enough for a day or two) into a small sealed plastic pot and when I want a pinch I press my index finger in and a ‘pinch’ adheres to the end of my finger. I then insert the very tip of my finger into my nostril and rotate my finger to the ‘front’ and then sniff. What seems to happen then is that the snuff is delivered to the correct part of my nose and I never get it in my throat or sinuses. I’m not sure whether I’ve described my technique properly, but whilst perhaps unorthodox, it does work.
@Thunderbird I know someone who does the exact same thing with Best SP, just gets some stuck to his index finger and gives a hard sniff.