coolest tricks?

[spudnut]

make a small washer from leather and put it between your rod tools and the rod, they won't bind on you;
On my LLP and Fowler both have wood rods and no threaded tips, the Fowlers rod is as thin as a cattail stem at the bottom.I carry an old style wire tow worm wound onto the leather thong that attaches the hammer stall to the gun and also a toggle and string in the shooting bag that has a slip knot for using rags and tow for cleaning the bore.
Shoot your smoothbore using paper wads above and below the ball.if you dryball all you have to do is pull the top paper and roll the ball back out by lightly tapping the muzzle on a stick.
With a rifle ,Learn to use a smaller ball and a thicker patch,easier to pull.

 

[spudnut]

"A 35mm film can"

Boy y'all are some old timers! Cannot remember when I last saw 35mm film.

Some day I'll find me a metal one and then I'll be in hog heaven... :haha:

They still make 35mm by the way....

You can get them at ebay look for lowest price first

 

[spudnut]

Oh ,and another trick take a prescription pill bottle or film canister ( plastic or metal heh heh) put some 2f in it with a round ball and carry it around in your shooting bag for a while ,and soon youll have some decent priming powder without buying a whole pound of it.

 

[MSW]

"A 35mm film can"

Boy y'all are some old timers! Cannot remember when I last saw 35mm film.

please note that 35mm film is just a passing fad, replete with doo-dads and gizmo gadgets which are not designed to improve your photography, but rather to separate you from your hard earned, overtaxed, God- entrusted dollars.

my idea of small is 4x5 sheet film.
wish I'd been able to get to one of Fred Pickert's classes before he died... he was a great proponent of the format and was a member of Ansel Adams' Studio 64 ... if you can score his monograph, as well as his books, it's a good thing!

 

[spudnut]

kinda hard to carry gunpowder in one though :hmm: