Does anyone here use snuff bullets, single snorters, double snorters, spoons or any other paraphernalia to take their snuff? If so, why? Cheers!

Whats that? Sounds like some medical equipment. Apart form the bullets… My weapon is my hand.

For now all I could find is a demitasse spoon. I wanted something feminine, cute and it was cheap. I used it for the first time last night and liked it a lot. Sits next to my computer and my snuff can. Why? Just didn’t think it was to sanitary using my finder nails to sniff. When I put it in my mouth by hand wet snuff gets up under my nails. I can use the spoon and see just what I getting and place it in my mouth a lot better.

Ive got several Toque bullets - they are convenient and discreet but the snuff never tastes the same from them and Ive largely abandoned them now, for me pinching is the only way…

amen to that snuffster

Good old fashion back of hand here. Only time it’s an issue is on the golf course in windy conditions. May pick up a bullet for golf.

Ditto you can’t beat pinching.

I suspected I would get these sorts of response, it seems most snuff users don’t bother with this kind of gear…I wouldn’t dream of judging anyone who does though!

Lazarus You know it funny you that you say that. I don’t know if you are, but I am sure a bunch of the guys here are part of another Snuff group that is hosted through yahoo. Well just the other day there was a post by a guy complaining that new snuff takers are disgracing the name of snuff by using such things as double shooters, snuff pipes, etc… He claims that we treat Snuff like it was an illegal drug (read: cocaine). He goes on to say that we are only doing snuff as part of a trend and eventually we will stop and only the real snuff takers (the traditionalists as he says) will be left. So then he starts his own group of select Snuff takers. To join you must be a British Traditional Snuff taker and nobody else! He also made claims that other forums (I’m sure this is one of them) were full of drug taking nuts who only took snuff to get a high. Now I know many times I and others have discussed what snuff has the most nicotine in it, as I was a smoker and was trying to quit. Well he quoted that as a problem with the new guys, all we care about is a fix! We apparently have competitions to see how much snuff we can take at once and how much of a head rush we can accomplish. I assume that stems from posts of us comparing the size of snuff we took on the backs of our hand. I’m sorry for rambling there but this email got me mad to say the least. I for one am a new Snuff user but am hardly doing it as a trend. To be honest where I am from Snuff taking is hardly a trend, as a matter of fact I am an outcast doing it. I have to explain to people what it is, and how it is used, even let them sample before they understand. So I am not surfing some trend! I also do have a Snuff pipe as I on some snuffs do take lines. Mostly I pinch but there are certain snuffs and even snuff containers that are easier to pour out and make a line. I actually was a heavy smoker that was testing different roll up tobacco on the internet when I stumbled across snuff. I knew what it was but never realized it was still available. After trying it, I was able to finally quit smoking for good! Now I love the stuff both for enjoyment and that it keeps me smoke free. So I am no hyped up drug taking head rush seeking snuff newbie! I am a regular Snuff user just like the rest of us on this board.

Dajawu Thats awful, I’ve never heard of someone like that before, he sounds like a snuff facist!! I don’t think it matters how you take snuff or why you take it, as long as you enjoy it who cares? As for snuff being trendy I agree with you; its not trendy at all! I live in the UK and you very very rarely see snuff in shops and whenever I have a pinch in public I can feel people staring at me trying to work out what i’m doing…my friends and family think i’m mad or just going through a phase or something…many people don’t even know what snuff is!! I did consider joining that yahoo group for snuff takers but if its populated with people like that I may well stear clear of it…get a fix? I have to use snuff quite heavily before I feel any different! I have said on another forum that unfortunately snuff seems to have lost its popularity not only because cigarettes are eaiser to get hold of and ‘cool’ for young people to use but sniffing substances up your nose smacks of substance abuse (even though it isn’t) and alot of people are turned off by that…for me the most unpleaseant part of snuff is definately cleaning your nose out but every nice habit has a downside…you eat too much chocolate you get fat, you drink too much you get a hangover, you use snuff and the contents of your nose turn a disgusting colour (not that it was pretty in the first place but you know what I mean) but I can live with that!

Well don’t let that turn you away from joining that group. For the most part it isn’t bad. I prefer this one many times over then the yahoo one. I joined a few when I first started just to find out which one I would like. The yahoo group is not as active as this one but isn’t a bad place, just has a few people that are way to uptight. Snuff does go up your nose, the same way some drugs do. So you have to expect the tools of the trade will be similar. I can tell you this though, I haven’t stolen my parents jewelry for a fix of Snuff. Well at least not yet, I do love snuff!

Thats one of the best things about snuff ; its dirt cheap! I have hardly scrached the surface of my snuff collection and ive been snuffing for over a month!! I am apparently classed as a ‘very light’ user as I usually only snuff 5-6 times a day (some do it 5-6 an hour apparently!) though sometimes more if I’m bored at work (like today) sometimes I snuff more than usual just to try and practice my technique. I tend to suffer quite alot with snuff hitting the back of my throat but i’m a tad congested at the moment due to mild hayfever plus 90% of my snuffs are mentholated which apparently can make your nose run so that might explain it…

Daj, Don’t let it bother you. Just a troll trolling. Soon he’ll go back under his rock, and all will be well.

The guy on the other site sounds like a dick brain, does he mean you have to be a British snuffer or use British snuff? I joined the yahoo group as well as snuff tobacco uk, but left them because there was long gaps in between posts and just not enough discussion - it just proves this site is the best.

I like the idea of the bullet but I think the design could be improved by changing the barrel shape. A strait barrel will shoot the snuff up too high. I would like to see a barrel that opens up wide to spray the snuff out instead of up. I guess I could modify one and see. Spoons are great, especially for getting to the bottom half of the F&T tins. A snorting tube for me seems a little unnecessary and unless it had a special design for a wider dispersion pattern I wouldn’t bother. But if sanitation is an issue and/or your having some kind of snuff party, tubes, spoons, gift bullets etc. would all add to the interest and would be a fun addition.

A snuff party?? Now that sounds like a very cool idea!!

A snuff party?? Now that sounds like a very cool idea!!

Wow now that the yahoo group has blown up, I am guessing because of my post it is a great group. The best part is the main offender is now quoting the above post and using it to prove some sort of point. So I guess with all his dislike for SnuffHouse.org he still finds time to read a few posts, how nice. Hi Albert!!!

I’m just glad he isn’t over here trolling away as he clearly is over there…

Juxtaposer - the problem with the bullets I have is that I always get a whiff of acrylic with them and they are lousy at keeping snuff in good condition. I took one to work this morning, just for convenience, and filled it with fresh sp before I left. By mid morning it was dry. They were invented to snort coke with afterall.

I used to like bullets, but they invariably shoot too far for me. I prefer the pinch or a pipe nail spoon.

You can’t beat a good ol’ pinch! :o)

dajawu this guy on the list sounds like a stupid ignorant snob and bigiot. I hate people who have the additude only they do something correctly. You should slap him in the face and tell him he’s just trying to be trendy himself useing english snuff which is non-tradional in the first place since the english copied off of the indginous people anyways. I don’t care that this dumby-head on yahoo has a misinformed opinion I do however hate the level of self-rightiousness and superiority the naked classism of it. Plus I hate when people get angery at others for pointing out something about themselves indirectly, in this case that he likes the snuff buzz and that it is a drug and he can’t now pretend to be the clean non-buzz seeker that he would love to pretend to be. That’s my oponion. Well here hopes his group goes well and they get to drown in the mediocratiy of isolationisms. Not a big deal but does give an opritunity to slam someone.

snuff goes up your nose like a drug cause it is a drug. Often when strangers ask me what I’am doing or sniffing up my nose (I sometimes am very approciable, othertimes the opposite) I love to respond with “drugs”. That usaly gets an even more confused look then the next question “no really what is it” (I like how if you say that’s what your doing straight up most people can’t believe it even if that is what they thought was going on before). Then at that point you say it’s drugs they’re just legal drugs in this case tobacco. Where oddly when I say tobacco or snuff it confuses more people. Though I don’t have too much concern with that and somehow it seems to avoid anyone taking notice. In fact most people don’t even seem to notice you snuffing unless you act like you have to hide it (which makes me think you’d be able to walk around snorting coke if you didn’t act like you had to hide it.)

I’m a pinch man myself. But do use a spoon on occasion and also the bullet has its place. I use the bullet moistly when I’m driving or I’m outside doing yard work or working in the veggy garden when my hands might be too dirty to take a pinch. Although I have taken a few pinches before with mud under the fingernails. Heck I’ve even taken a pinch when my hands were covered in deer blood, guts & hair. Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do.

gross. I use the spoon a lot and the bullet also pinch. The bullet is definatly always with me outside just incase there is a strong gust of wind when I want some snuff. The bullet also works well in the rain too.

Why are the admin for that yahoo group putting up with that? Whats this guys user ID?

I hear you Roderick, but what still amazes me about this guy is his own dishonesty of what he has already posted. For example he claims he doesn’t like Americans, then post after post he claims he never said that. Also when he first starts his group he says Brits only, later to say anyone of any nationality. I mean if your going to hide your bigotry then you probably shouldn’t post your true feelings on the internet!

I love how bigiot always always are the pot calling the kettle black. I remember growing up in rural PA meeting some great big bigots (not that there are a lot of bigots there just a certain type). They’d say the groups they didn’t like where shiftless, crimanal, drug addict, immoral, and looked like apes the thing is that described the bigots to a T. Well this Albert guy seems to be playing the excate same thing, he definately sounds like a big know-it-all. And if he was the image people had of the british (which some people still have that image of the british) no one would like the british.

No-one does like us British…except the Maltese! Lol

He’s probably just an alcoholic and goes on drunken rants. Probably doesn’t even remember what he ranted about.

“… I have always been a pretentious person (i just preferred to call myself a nonconformist) …” That’s one of the funniest things I have read in a long time.

My preferred weapon is tapping out onto my thumbnail. a.k.a.: “The Boxcar Method” Wooden snuff boxes work very well for tapping if you only open the lid a crack. Wraping your index finger around the end of the thumb prevents (pretty much) getting snuff under your thumbnail. Once I master the fine, dry snuffs; I shall put away my bullet for good!

I usually prefer the “pinch” method but often use a spoon, especially one that was a gift from a friend at ASP. I’ve picked up a few salt spoons from ebay and also use them. I use a bullet when out and about as it’s discreet.

For this snuffer the pinch is the only way. When I was new to snuffing I tried it all and came to find that everything else was just needless steps. Back of the hand method works well for tap boxes, but as most everyone can agree they suck for keeping snuff over long periods of time, so i always buy 5or6 at a time, and decant them into mason jars. That is mainly for Bernard snuffs, which i love and can only find in tap boxes.

Personaly I’ve got a pipe tool whith three arms,It seems to be a special object for snuffing,one end like a perfect litlle spoon ovoid,an other end is a sort of peak to blend the mixture,breaking small masses. I had it without smoking pipe since years and years,It’s just perfect to mee,It was like if it was waiting for his hour of glory …

A Czech pipe tool is my weapon of choice

I have a snuff spoon but use it only to scrape bottom and grooves of tins.

With my snuff mull, I have always intended to get my jeweler friend to attach two silver chains to the silver, snuff box. From there, I would attach a rabbits foot for whipping snuff off articles of clothing and a dedicated snuff spoon. It has not happened yet…

my semi-automatic: 3 inches of clear rubber aqurium tubeing with one end heated over the stove to get the edge smooth. That end in the nose, the other end in the mouth. Nose end is softly packed with 1/2 inch of snuff. This is discharged with the softest of puffs using the tounge. Pump action: same as above with shorter tube stuck into soft rubber bulb (often used with infants to suck stuff out of their nose … usually to the infants shock and horror.) main advantage- you can get LOTS of snuff VERY high up (if that your thing), but WITHOUT any of it hitting your throat since you close off the airway to your nose while doing this (but you keep breathing through your mouth). For nic-jocks only. Makes no sense otherwise IMO.

Being a collector of Chinese snuff bottles, when my Xichang snuff arrived I switched to this Traditional Mongolian Turquoise bottle. It fits nicely in the palm of ones hand, and can easily be carried in my pocket. Has a perfect sized spoon… This particular bottle was purchased from a Mongolian Elder just outside his village.

That’s a beautiful little bottle, @George.

I tried using some sort of spoon-like object but it just doesn’t do for me. I pinch because I noticed that the warmth of the fingers or something brings out ten times more of the snuff than a spoon thingy.

@Erg0lite I notice the same thing, I only pinch. Sometimes I take a hit off of my pipe tools ‘snuff spoon’ but thats only for whites.

@Brandasaur Haha, why? So not only it’s white, you take it from a spoon too? I guess you don’t do that often in public. I didn’t have any non tobacco snuff yet but I will probably try in the future a highly recommended one, although I think I’ll enjoy the tobacco ones more. By the way, how is it, how does it feel when pinching and when snuffing? How is the texture and grain compared to a Poschl’s for example? (I only have Gawith Appricot, Gletscher Prise and Lowen Snuff).

LOL I meant the Indian whites, like Dholakia White, which are actually tan. I have had energy snuff though, they are tobacco free and are a bit sneezy. They feel like snuffing coarse icing sugar.

@Brandasaur Oups, sorry, newbie mistake there. I thought it was about the white powder non tobacco snuffs, which by the way I guess there are some really bad ones, and some good ones, what would be a fail-safe suggestion of those? I know there is Poschl’s Ozona Snuffy Weiss which people describe as tic-tac powder or something like that. Now, to be honest I really don’t think I would like something like that.

I usually use a snuff spoon except when I’m lying down on the sofa watching the tellybox, then I pinch.

The Bernards Tiger energy snuff are good. They are sweet sweet sweet. They also give a pretty decent caffeine boost for when your tired.

Unless it’s a Schmalzler, my weapon of choice is thumb and index finger. For Schmalzlers it’s usually a backhand sniff.

Depend on the moisture of the snuff and the fineness of the grind, Since I like moist and course grind, for my busy day I use a shovel ! salt spoon works well but are too short,so I got a nice stainless steel spoon; Built like a precision medical instrument ,tap boxes just behind the knuckle.and fine dry snuff a pinch and light inhale suffice. I like a nice dose of nic and the shovel method avoids the baccy trail no dusting required. A Bowie knife works too, but I don’t need a trip to the emergency room if I sneeze and cut my face off. That would ruin my day

While in public, I prefer tap boxes and the “Thumbnail Method”, whilst at home, nothing beats my antique silver Butter Knife!! The length and shape make for ease of handling and very accurate placement with virtually no spillage or “nostril ring”. Also great for 1/2 full F&T Tubes, for those that don’t decant. -Cheers!

Why, my nose of course! No, I know it’s not exactly the correct way to take snuff, but I use a…well, let’s not beat about the bush, a snorting pipe. Although obviously I don’t use it in public. That could get out of hand fast.

At home, on occasion I have been known to use the handle of a toenail clipper. Good contour and just the right size. This is especially true when I want a pinch of something that I don’t have in a snuffbox. It keeps my fingers out of my containers.

I just tried a little snuff spoon. I don’t know how in the heck you spooners do it. Every particle seems to have bypassed my nose and lodged itself in my throat. Gah…

Here are two ‘spoons’ that I have, but I don’t use them much because of the problem that Dogwalla mentioned above- I can’t seem to snuff from a spoon without it going straight to the back of my throat. In fact, I just tried it again and am suffering as I type! The top one is the cuticle pusher on my Victorinox Minichamp, a small keychain sized swiss army knife. The cuticle pusher is just the right shape and size. In fact, I bet most cuticle pushers would work as a snuff spoon, so that might be a good place to start looking if you want something to use as a spoon. The bottom one is actually a device for squeezing blackheads! I bought it specifically for snuff, and it holds a perfect amount. The spoon shaped ends have a hole in them to allow the greasy contents of an infected pore to pass through. You’d think that snuff would leak out from the hole, but it doesn’t happen in practice.

A snuff spoon with a bowl smaller than a pinky nail is worthless. One about that size is good for medium moisture snuffs. A snuff spoon the size of a forefinger nail is good for schmalzler. Anything bigger than that is probably a salt spoon or other, and worthless for snuff.