Help with 16 gauge fowler

[Nobody85]

I’m having trouble finding a ramrod tip for a 16 gauge fowler. I can find 10,12, and 20 gauge tips all day but the 16 gauge tip has proven more difficult. I’m currently awaiting the fowlers arrival from TVM. I’ve bought from them before and know that they only install a utility tip with an 8/32 thread. While I definitely want that, I also want a permanent tip/cup on the other end. I’ve checked EBay already thinking someone might have one from an old English fowling piece but no luck. Any help would be welcome.

 

[Rock Home Isle]

Try here

https://www.trackofthewolf.com/list/Item.aspx/581/1
For the tip/cup…get a 12 gauge tip, mount the tip in a drill press, turn it on…then take a file and just file it down to size. Kind of a back door method, but in the end you’ll have what you want…

 

[Nobody85]

That’s a good idea!

 

[skwerleater]

20 gauge tips are commonly available and a 20 gauge tip will work well in a 16 for seating wads and cards.

 

[Grenadier1758]

Several vendors have the screw on tips, but none seem to have a 16 gauge tip for the ramrod. A 20 gauge tip will work, but as @Rock Home Isle suggests you will have to turn down a 12 gauge tip to make a custom 16 gauge tip,

 

[Pukka Bundook]

Most originals are a good deal less than bore size, and work just fine.
You can turn one out of brass in an electric drill held in the vice, or one of horn for that matter.
Horn was used commonly and is easy to work with.

 

[Nobody85]

I had thought about just getting a 20 gauge tip. You see a lot of original fowlers in 16 gauge, but today they’re harder to come by. Everyone just wants to push the 20.

 

[smo]

Is this any help?

 

[Nobody85]

That’s nice for the utility end. I’m looking for a permanent tip/cup for the other end. I just like flipping the rod around to load. I don’t use range rods. When my ramrod wears out from cleaning and loading, I just make a new one.

 

[SlidePicker]

The 12 gauge tip will probably work as it is. I use a 12 gauge jag in my 15 gauge fowler. The jag, wrapped with a patch, has to be able to go through a 12 gauge full choke which is in the neighborhood of .69".

 

[toot]

Is this any help?

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there you go!

 

[GREENSWLDE]

I had thought about just getting a 20 gauge tip. You see a lot of original fowlers in 16 gauge, but today they’re harder to come by. Everyone just wants to push the 20.

Many British fowlers were originally 17bore from 1750's to the change to Caplock when makers went to even No.s. and 16's became common & 14's. I will sort thru' some old bits that came from an gun maker's cellar in Brum as I know there are a few old brass ramrod ends there (and a few Worms,mostly pistol size). I will show on MLF when I find them. O.D.

 

[Feltwad]

A ramrod tip must have a bore clearage but not do much so that the ramrod by passes the wad which is left on the bore wall this is the common thing to cause a burst barrel which I have witnessed that happened to a friend . Enclosed are images of different types of ramrod tip and worms
Feltwad