Training drills with the R9S - magazine catch question

[Ghost Chili]

Ghost Chili

I'm completely off the subject here, but I was picking Ghost Peppers (Bhut Jalokia) in my garden this afternoon and was wondering if they have anything to do with your "Rohrbaugh alias".  What's the story?

Indeed they do.  A group of good friends and I enjoy spicy foods and we often find ourselves challenging each other in how spicy of a pepper we can eat.  Rather than just eat the peppers themselves, we would make dishes and spice them up.  One of the guys made a venison chili and used a number of ghost peppers in it.  At the time, I did not know of the ghost pepper and felt I was more than up to the challenge of eating a bowl.  I managed to finish the bowl of chili, but I was quite miserable after the second spoonful.  I was the only one out of 5 of us to finish my bowl and thus gained the respect of my peers.  I understand there is a hotter pepper out there known as the Scorpion pepper.  I may have to change my forum name should I conquer that one.

[MRC]

There is some controversy about the Trinidad Scorpion Peppers.  Although they registered close to 2,000,000 Scoville Heat Units in a test at the Chile Pepper Institute, the guy cannot replicate that hot of a pepper again so New Mexico State still says the Bhut Jolokia is the world's hottest pepper.  Yor namesake is safe so far.

This link might be of interest to you.

    http://www.chilepepperinstitute.org/

[Ghost Chili]

Thanks for the link!  Very informative.  I guess there is an organization for just about anything out there. 

Wow, 2 million SHC!  The Bhut Jolokia had my eyes watering, nose running, and I was drooling uncontrollably once it all kicked in.  I was wondering if getting pepper sprayed would be a similar experience.  If they ever manage to produce the Scorpion with a consistent 2 million SHC, I'll look into trying to get some. 

[MRC]

I read in an article some place (can't find it now) that the guy who raised the scorpion fertilized them with runoff froma a worm farm.  Good story anyway.