cheep speed loaders

[windwalker_au]

i use empty drill bit containers to hold powder,
when i go pig shooting so i can reload faster. they hold just over a hundred grn of powder and just pull apart and are waterproof not period corect but they are handy.
bernie :thumbsup:

 

[bob1961]

i use a bunch of 35mm film cans, 70 grains just fills bout 1/4" on the bottom of the can :v ...........bob

 

[silverfox]

Just curious how you measure 1/4" on the bottom of the can?
Fox :hatsoff: :rotf:

 

[Dave Rosenthal]

As long as you keep your powder dry, go for it! I use those little red tubes with the orange slip-on caps...had 100 of them pre-loaded for a Boy Scout Rondy I ran over the last weekend. A cigar box with a little metal "hasp" is a great storage box too. I use a second cigar box for the empties, so that I don't dry-ball.

All the best, Dave

 

[mommicked]

I've heard of folks using empty cigar tubes, plastic or aluminum? for speed loaders, never tried it.

 

[arcticap]

If you take 2 prescription pill containers and rough up their bottoms a little bit, they can then be epoxied together and used as a "flip" speed loader.
Because of the epoxy I used, some broke apart after a hunting season or two and others have lasted for years.

 

[flintlockmdj]

Cut some river cane or bamboo with the node left at the bottom get a cork stopper or make a wooden stopper. This is P.C. looking if not really P.C. and about as cheep as you can get.

 

[Jac Spring]

I saw on another post here that wooden needle containers work good but are limited in the charge size. They look kinda like the wooden charge flasks that the muskateers used in their bandoleers.

Or how about 45-70 brass with a cork? Fired of course with the spent primer in place.

 

[paulvallandigham]

OSOK: It would probably be easier if he got some .50-70 brass casings, because you can find 1/2"diameter corks in most hobby stores. For heavy loads, he buy .50 basic brass, which is about a 3 1/2" tube. That holds at least 140 grains of powder, so it should serve for the most determined of shoulder busters. :thumbsup:

 

[CrackStock]

Get some old copper tubing and use a tubing cutter to lop to size and make or buy some form of stopper. I use a rasp on a hardwood dowel to shape a plug. I split to plug that goes into the tubing and adjust tension with a toothpick or other wedge. This same tubing and plug design works well for a mouth of a ball or shot bag.

CS

 

[Rafsob]

If period correct is not a problem, then go and check out this site:
[url] http://www.cabelas.com/cabela...t20819&parentType=index&indexId=cat20819&rid=[/url]

I use something like these for hunting and you can get pretty fast with practise. :grin:

 

[Darto]

I wonder if they used glass in the periods of interest? Glass test tubes come mind with cork stoppers. Actually I have used those in the past.

 

[Obi-Wan Cannoli]

I wonder if they used glass in the periods of interest? Glass test tubes come mind with cork stoppers. Actually I have used those in the past.

I look forward to the correction at this stage of the game, but here goes nothing...: It is incredibly unlikely that they used glass because of it's high cost and fragility; if you wanted to be PC, here is one option:
http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/fusionbb/showtopic.php?tid/293744/

 

[coloradoclyde]

I learned how to shoot straight so I didn't have to reload fast...... :haha:

 

[tenngun]

You make speed loaders out of paper. Paper tube, tied at one end, drop in a ball, fill with powder and fold at the bottom. Rip off the bottom, drop the powder down the bore, ram home. Some Swedish guy says he invented it about 1650, but I think they are a might older. :wink:

 

[azmntman]

I learned how to shoot straight so I didn't have to reload fast...... :haha:

You know yer good when you go after that big buck with a muzzle loader and no reloads!

Or perhaps cuz yer old and left em all in the truck?? :idunno:

 

[coloradoclyde]

In all my years I've only used a speed loader once while hunting...That was the same year I missed...
Twice...... :grin:

 

[Obi-Wan Cannoli]

...That was the same year I missed...
Twice...... :grin:

And I am sure glad you did miss. :shocked2:

 

[Loyalist Dave]

You make speed loaders out of paper. Paper tube, tied at one end, drop in a ball, fill with powder and fold at the bottom. Rip off the bottom, drop the powder down the bore, ram home. Some Swedish guy says he invented it about 1650, but I think they are a might older

:thumbsup:

I load only the powder charge, and use a ball and patch from my bullet-board. I've never seen a person actually get a second shot into a deer that they fired at..., even when using a swivel rifle or having a second rifle at hand..., now I've seen in those two examples of a second shot being fired..., but it missed as the animal was moving pretty quickly.

Once I did see a fellow with a second rifle at hand, shoot a doe in a group of does, and the animal that was hit plus all of the group save one, left quickly, but the one that stayed was downed with the second rifle. Both harvested animals were found a short distance from where they stood when they were hit.

Don't know if a "speed load" is viable for hogs, as I've never had the chance to harvest one, myself....

LD

 

[Eric Krewson]

Not being PC, I keep shot and powder premeasured and ready to go in my possible bag when I hunt.

You can buy 25 of these screw top vials on the auction site for $10 shipped free. The small ones will hold up to 100 gr of powder, the big ones will hold a couple oz of shot.