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When you're rolling paper shot canisters for your smoothie, have you found a certain paper that has the right properties for you? What's worked best?
Paper For Shot Canisters
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Brokennock
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I mostly use brown paper grocery bags. But, occasionally I will use newspaper if I'm anticipating closer shooting and want the cup of shot to break apart sooner. Others use paper from used books, being a bookworm I can't bring myself to do that. Also I find too many variables between books regarding the weight and quality of paper used.
I use brown paint drop paper. Only because my wife bought a roll for a craft project. Before that it was coin paper wrappers.
I just got to ask, aren't coin wrappers too hard, or stiff or strong? They always seem pretty strong when I'm trying to get money out of them.
The key is to buy a used book with good, bond paper. Autobiographies are a good choice when hardback, or a hardback romance novel from The Dollar Store is another good choice. I also use newsprint, especially in my caplock SxS since it has choked barrels.
IF you find that what you're using just spreads too much, you can make wax loads. These are traditional, btw.
You take paper tubes that will just fit inside your barrel with shot, and will slide down without resistance in a clean barrel..so you have to double check.... THEN you put them open but filled with the shot into the oven at 170 degree. I stack mine upright in a metal cup. After ten minutes they will be "at temperature". Meanwhile you melt some beeswax. When ready, remove the heated shot packets, and pour a little melted beeswax onto the shot inside the paper tubes until the wax is level with the top of the shot column, and allow the wax to cool. The wax will flow over and around the shot, which it won't do if you pour it onto cold shot in the paper tubes. When cooled, close off the tubes with a string tie, and you're ready to test the patterns.
Now some folks find that they get more of what they want by using bullet lube instead of straight beeswax. So they mix 60% wax and 40% lard or olive oil, etc, melted, and then pour that in where the straight beeswax would've gone. The advantage there is the pattern tends to open quicker as the mixture is softer than straight beeswax..., AND as it soaks through the paper when being poured, it lubes the outside of the tube.
LD
C6, Lol on being hard to open with coins inside. I never had a problem with them being to stiff to roll and form. I do cut "petals" in the side like those on a plastic shot cup. If the shot cut is an inch long, I cut four 1/4 inch slits equally spaced. If a longer shot cup is made, I go with a longer cut. But I generally only make one inch long shot cups. On the painters drop paper, I don't make any cuts.
P.S. I usually get better patterns with the drop paper.
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LD, I thought wax loads were a poor man's slug. Any idea how many yards they go before opening up?
Unfortunately, or fortunately, you have to test them yourself. The pure wax loads are very hard, so you have to vary the lube mixture wax vs. grease. And see what works for you. There's a lot of variations.
LD
Oh that's true, Two guys can attempt to do the exact same thing and have completely different results.
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Initial tests have the cylinders rolled on .45 Colt cases as handy forms of a consistent size. Will fill 'em up, fold the open ends and see how she do's.
I use my paper shot cups kind of like a speed load. I powder then wad with tow, open the shot cup and dump it down the tube, then use the paper for the over shot wad. Not as fast as putting the whole paper cup down shot and all but it works for me.
Spudnut, that would be faster than me as I don't load the shot cup beforehand. Others might load in advance but I use a shot pouch to load the shot cup in the barrel.
I mostly use this on clays in tradegun matches, I seem to get a good spread, I hit 3 out of 4 most times
BJHabermehl
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I use post it pad paper. I trim the sheets to only have one thickness of paper when it’s wrapped around the mandril. Then I fold over the bottom and stick it shut with hot glue. I shoot 28 bore and 24 bore trade guns. I have best results with slits in the cups. I’ve had slugging issues with paper cups without slits. I also use a modified version to make paper cartridges for shot and powder. BJH
Before I jug choked I used those 3 X 5 index cards for shot cups and they worked great.
Robby
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Robby, do you cut slits in one end to open up faster or close them off?
Bwahha I know what you mean, However when the little girl checking you out at the super market asks paper or plastic say paper.
Note: some of the big chains don't ask you as there is no choice. I always get paper from our local market at least once a month.
Brokennock
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And in some states now, you pay extra for plastic. Here in the People's Republic of Connecticut we have to pay 10 cents per bag for plastic shopping bags, regardless of what size bag, at any store. Amazing the number of people putting everything back in the cart and moving everything they bought from the register to their car and unloading the cart at their car. Or bringing their own bags. The state gets the 10 cents. Many of us have made no bones about telling them, and the state, that I would rather pay the store 20 cents for a paper bag with the store's logo and the store keeps the money, than 10 cents for the usual plastic bag and have the 10 cents go to the state.Bwahha I know what you mean, However when the little girl checking you out at the super market asks paper or plastic say paper.
Note: some of the big chains don't ask you as there is no choice. I always get paper from our local market at least once a month.
Sorry I didn't reply to the question earlier,,,, I didn't think the poster was seriously asking.
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