This isn’t a post about which you use, either pinching or sniffing off the back of then hand, but about how you do it. For example, do you use one bigger pinch and take that to one nostril after the other, or do you use two pinches, a seperate one for each? Same with back of the hand, do you have one bigger ‘pile’ or two smaller ones (or two big ones I suppose)! I don’t think I’ve explained that very well, but hopefully you get the idea. Personally I use one big pinch, left nostril first, then roll the pinch back and take it to the right. If Im sniffing off the hand I use two smaller piles, one at a time.
Whatever works. I’m a pincher and SOMETIMES I use back of hand method. I take half a pea-sized pinch and sniff, and then I take another half-pea-sized amount and take it. When I do back-of-hand, I make a little bump- take it- and then repeat with the other nostril 
@Koba22: I generally do the same as you, except when using the back of the hand technique I find I can inhale larger pinches, especially of toasts and scotches.
@toffeenose I agree. For some reason I can take alot more scotch snuff off the back of my hand than I can in a pinch or anything else. I wonder why? I can take almost twice as much! lol
@transistor: Yeah, it’s strange, isn’t it? I’d be interested to know why too - I bet someone on the forum has the answer… Xander???
I haven’t taken a snuff off the back of my hand in months, come to think of it. Don’t forget the thumb-nail method! @toffeenose et @transistor, is it really more, or is it just not as compressed as when you pinch it? 
No, I’ve witnessed this phenomenon as well.
I take two bumps off the back of the hand and on rare occasions when I pinch, I take two pinches, one for each nostril. When I use my thumbnail sometimes for schmalzlers, I use one big pile for both nostrils.
I hardly ever back of the hand, but when I pinch it is one big pinch for both nostrils. Stefan
I usually snuff during the day while I am at the computer, and I usually use a spoon.
I usually pinch, one pinch that i take from one nostril to the other. One thing I allways wondered about is amount. One man’s definition of a pinch is different from anothers.
I always used the back of the hand with a bump for each nostril…since I’ve mastered the pinch, that’s all I use, aside for my spoon for the super fines(WE and DW) and a bullet when on the go. With the pinch i always use a seperate pinch for each nostril.
Fish, does the spoon work better on we and dw? I use pinch for those. I figure a spoon would send it to the back lf my throat. I figure with a spoon with those it would have to be a couple inches away from the nostril.
I pinch. It’s more practical; my nose is smallish and right nostril clogs easily so control is the key.
I’ve never mastered the back of the hand method - I usually smear it all over my nose rather than get any inside… So I have some learning to do obviously. I usually pinch unless it’s a very strong snuff like Clove, when I use a spoon to measure a very small amount. When I pinch it’s a bit about the size of an appleseed spread between both nostrils. Then I often go back for a second!
@ddavelarsen the size of an appleseed??? That’s WAY too small of a pinch for me-- jeesh… am I doing way too much or is an appleseed the norm? lol
@EricHill78 It works way better for me, I just give it a very light inhale aimed towards the front of my nose, and don’t have any problem with it hitting my throat. I can’t pinch, because it just sems to fall right out of stubby fingers…lol!
@transistor, I read here one day that was the size pinch someone else used and that’s what I’ve been shooting for ever since. I have no idea what the norm is! Sometimes, with some easier snuffs, I do get a much larger pinch. But I don’t think my nose is up to big amounts all the time yet.
Here at my desk I use a butter knife, but out and about, I use one large pile for each side off the back of my hand.
@ddavelarsen: I make two piles the size of a pea on the back of my hand, one for each nostril and repeat every 10 minutes or so, but that is probably on the heavy side. I didn’t start there, but as with any addiction/habit, it grows.
@Nachman, I hate to be too dense but I’m trying to picture this. Do you sniff both piles at once, or one at a time? Often I take a good pinch every few minutes too, I have a pretty high nicotine tolerance.