Static electricity setting off black powder is an old wives tale, or you could say it's an urban legend. Black powder containers have been made out of metal for a long time. Anyone watching Dick Dastardly, knows he used a metal can of black powder as a threat to try to get the deed to Pauline's ranch.

Well, maybe a better example is called for. How about this can of DuPont FFFG from the 1940s?



It's actually the same can DuPont and IMR used until they were bought out by Hodgdon.

That would lead one to believe there may not be so much wrong with using metal in conjunction with black powder.