Picric acid question

[trouttickler]

New here, was reading through the posts and came across the use of picric acid in dying materials. Some individuals were adament about its dangerous explosive qualities. Just curious, does anyone have any documentation of any fly tyers blowing themselves up in the past hundred years or so when using this as a dye?

[willowhead]

..........rotflmffao...... Trouttickler.....go to my site http://www.pureartflytying.ning.com and look up a tyer on there by the name of Lawrence Finny. He's an Irish bloke who dyes everything in Picric.....he was in the service for a long time.....special forces or something or other.....WAY SERIOUS **** anyway.....and he has a lot of experience using the stuff in all kinna ways. He's posted a few videos of himself tying his patterns on my site.....check it out. My wife and i have tyed with him in England and Ireland and Montana, and we have a plate of his flies here in our gallery. The guy tyes the most beautiful flies.....like i said, check it out.