Black powder cap and ball pistols

[smoothshooter]

WonderWads here in UK cost 15c EACH. On the average guest day we go through around a hundred shots with my ROA...apart from the cost of the powder I freely spend [guests are GUESTS], that would be another $15....gimme a break.

Buy a punch, get some felt or cardboard, and make and lube your own wads. I refuse to pay the prices suppliers get for them.

 

[TFoley]

Buy a punch, get some felt or cardboard, and make and lube your own wads. I refuse to pay the prices suppliers get for them.

Don't use 'em at all, me.

 

[toot]

wouldn't hesitate to carry an 1860 colt with a "sheriff" barrel. all six loaded and the pin between the cylinders ... proper fitting caps and corn meal above the powder... yo'll get about the same terminal ballistics as a .44 special loaded heavy, which is more than enough to solve two legged problems

what holds the corn meal in the cylinder?

 

[Grenadier1758]

Uh, the bullet at the cylinder mouth.

 

[SDSmlf]

WonderWads here in UK cost 15c EACH. On the average guest day we go through around a hundred shots with my ROA...apart from the cost of the powder I freely spend [guests are GUESTS], that would be another $15....gimme a break.

I used 1/8” thick hard felt from a company called Duro-Felt. If similar material is available and reasonably priced in the U.K. it might be worth considering. Forget the exact cost per wad at the moment, but using the Duro-Felt product believe it was under a $0.01 each. Only other investments are a set of punches, a mallet, a block of wood and bit of time. I can punch out a 100 wads in a few minutes.

 

[TFoley]

Ah, well, the pinches I have already for a .451ca rifle, as well as the wooden block, and being retired, plenty of time.....I might give it some consideration.

 

[appalichian hunter]

Beer coasters from your local pub make nice wads. And while you are using them you can give them a sniff and remind yourself of the wonderful times you had collecting them.

 

[sawyer04]

I used 1/8” thick hard felt from a company called Duro-Felt. If similar material is available and reasonably priced in the U.K. it might be worth considering. Forget the exact cost per wad at the moment, but using the Duro-Felt product believe it was under a $0.01 each. Only other investments are a set of punches, a mallet, a block of wood and bit of time. I can punch out a 100 wads in a few minutes.

I use felt and make my own wads also. I found that a cheap drill press with the punch mounted and works great for making wads. I use to pound and have problems with hang ups, but the drill press cuts instead of severing; makes clean cuts.

 

[TFoley]

Beer coasters from your local pub make nice wads. And while you are using them you can give them a sniff and remind yourself of the wonderful times you had collecting them.

That's what I use in my rifle.

 

[AZbpBurner]

I fold up a little dab of beeswax & tallow lube into a square ot toiletpaper. It makes a fine wad and there's no punching or tedious prep work needed beforehand.

 

[B P Arn]

^^^ Do you put the T.P. wad over, or under, the bullet?

 

[Grumpa]

The only chain fire I ever experienced was with "blank" charges in an 1851 Navy repro. It was 4th of July, close to 40 years ago, and I handed it to a friend so he could make some noise and fire a pistol for the first time. The load was a healthy charge of 2Fg, a cardboard wad (or wadded paper - I forget which) and a generous dollop of Crisco filling each chamber mouth, all 6 of them. He pulled the trigger, and the gun went off - all 6 chambers at once! So much for Crisco preventing chain fires.

The look on his face was priceless.

Richard/Grumpa

 

[toot]

Uh, the bullet at the cylinder mouth.

sorry, I thought the corn meal was put in on top of the bullet?

 

[appalichian hunter]

Toot that would be a easy way to feed the chickens.

 

[toot]

appalichian hunter, you got me! you gotta love it! and so do the chickens!

 

[appalichian hunter]

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