Quick Loads

[Bob Riegl]

:grin: Slenk---don't let them get you down :yakyak: ---I personally think it's a great idea---imitation is the finest form of flattery---and I am off to the shop to make me a couple or more---I have some 3/4" cherry stock down there and I have the tools in my mind already. That's one of the best ideas I have seen in years and well worth trying to duplicate---thanks for sharing that great idea with us---you are appreciated.---- :hatsoff:

 

[R. Miller]

those are really neat,I think I will make some stickwalker

 

[strongarm]

I also use a maple block but I add a finger of mineral oil or bore butter to the patch as I load the block. They'll dry out in a week if you don't. Right behind the block on the same necklace is a 6 oz leather medallion holding eight caps and in my pocket I have a 12 gauge shotgun shell with the crimp cutoff and replaced with a cork. The plastic shell can be squeezed to form a funnel for dumping the powder and the rest is history for a second or third shot. :winking:

 

[Twisted_1in66]

Sorry, that was suppose to be "humor" rather than "hunmor". Maybe one of these days I'll get new glasses. But that probably doesn't have much to do with my lack of hand/eye coordination. I refuse to acknowldege getting OLD. Not on my watch!
Best Wishes

Your watch? How old does your watch say you are? If mine started keeping track of my age, I'd get a new watch... :hmm:
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[Nifeman]

Hi fellers, made a takeoff on the loading block. It's for a single reload albeit a mite quicker than hunting thru your bag. Easy to make on a mini lathe...Bud

4" long to the plug - out of curley maple scrap, stained with aquafortis and coated with linseed oil

 

[roundball]

Now that is an outstanding idea!!

You may have just launched a new cottage industry for yourself...could probably sell a lot of them!

How big is the powder chamber in your prototype?
Is that one a .50cal?

Great idea and skills... :thumbsup:

 

[gmww]

Very nice. Wonder if you could make the end of your stopper to be a quick starter for the ball?

 

[Nifeman]

Now that is an outstanding idea!!

You may have just launched a new cottage industry for yourself...could probably sell a lot of them!

How big is the powder chamber in your prototype?
Is that one a .50cal?

Great idea and skills... :thumbsup:

Thanks fellas, hey Roundball, I do plan on selling some at the Charlotte Gun and Knife show in Dec. also it holds about 100 grains of 2F BP for a .50 cal...
My son gave me the idea for incorporating the plug into a ball starter. Just have to make it about 3/4" longer, and it should work. Would save a lot of fumblin around and still be sorta, kinda PC :hmm: ...Bud

 

[roundball]

Now that is an outstanding idea!!

You may have just launched a new cottage industry for yourself...could probably sell a lot of them!
How big is the powder chamber in your prototype?
Is that one a .50cal?
Great idea and skills... :thumbsup:

Thanks fellas, hey Roundball, I do plan on selling some at the Charlotte Gun and Knife show in Dec. also it holds about 100 grains of 2F BP for a .50 cal...
My son gave me the idea for incorporating the plug into a ball starter. Just have to make it about 3/4" longer, and it should work. Would save a lot of fumblin around and still be sorta, kinda PC :hmm: ...Bud

I was also thinking about a short starter when I was looking at the photo...worried if it's on the end of the plug that the impact might drive the plug deeper into the powder chamber and split it

 

[Dave K]

Put the ball starter on the side near the ball pocket. This is a great idea! Or have the powder plug itself have a short dowel starter on it that would be inside the powder chamber when carrying it. They you could use it to push the ball out of the ball pocket. Hmmmmmmmmm

 

[gmww]

Actually, I was thinking the other end of the plug. I'd consider using a very hard wood like ebony. Or if you use a softer wood the constant use as a starter might be enough to keep the starter end flared. Might be a good thing to keep it snug while holdig the powder.

 

[Nifeman]

Oooh, you fellers give a guy a headache :rotf: . I plan on making one with a short starter in the near future. It'll be on the side towards the ball and imbedded in the plug. Of course, I'll have to make the plug end a little fatter or you might shove it into your hand. It'll work, just wait and see...Bud

 

[gmww]

Yep, I was thinking something a little smaller than a ping pong ball but round to be easy on the hand. On the plug side of the stopper you could even make a groove so you can slip on a rubber O ring. That way it will be water tight.

I think way too much sometimes. Sorry. :blah:

 

[Twisted_1in66]

Yep, I was thinking something a little smaller than a ping pong ball but round to be easy on the hand. On the plug side of the stopper you could even make a groove so you can slip on a rubber O ring. That way it will be water tight.

I think way too much sometimes. Sorry. :blah:

You know, Stumpkiller has posted a few shots of the loading block with ball starter he carries in his hunting bag. The ball starter he's got pictured there might be just the thing. Might be able to use it as stopper for the powder and ball starter all at once?

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Twisted_1in66 :thumbsup:

 

[hornetk4]

I use a similar method for a faster or at least more convenient load for my 12 ga sxs . I buy some of those self sticking postits from the stationary store . I use the 3x3 inch one and roll them up around the right sized dowel like a felt pen and self sticking end makes a tube then crimp one end closed . Then pour in my powder and fold the other end closed I do the same for my shot then you can wright on them as to how much powder or shot you put in . Then I put a dozen in my left coat pocket of powder and the same amount of shot in my right pocket along with some over powder and over shot cards in the same pockets and I'm ready to go chase quail I can leave the heavyer stuff in the truck.

 

[Norskie]

Slenk, No offence taken! :v I usta use speed loaders myself until I got fast with my horn, measure and loading block. That took a lot of time at 'shoot from the bag' matches. Nowdays I take my time with most things, especially hunting. Best deer I ever got woke me from my beauty nap under an oak tree!

 

[Stumpkiller]

Yep, I was thinking something a little smaller than a ping pong ball but round to be easy on the hand. On the plug side of the stopper you could even make a groove so you can slip on a rubber O ring. That way it will be water tight.

I think way too much sometimes. Sorry. :blah:

You know, Stumpkiller has posted a few shots of the loading block with ball starter he carries in his hunting bag. The ball starter he's got pictured there might be just the thing. Might be able to use it as stopper for the powder and ball starter all at once?

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Twisted_1in66 :thumbsup:

Purpleheart ball-block with stub starter whittled from a single piece of curly maple (which I found at Lowes in the cut wood rack). There's a sheath for the block on the back of the bag and the starter rides inside. I made a little "iron" staple out of twisted coat-hanger wire heated orange hot with a propane torch, pounded square in cross-section, twisted, and then bent into a "U" for a tie-point on the starter.

Not a very good picture of it, but here's my "speed loader".

Three shot ball-block attached to the horn strap and slipped in a carry-strap. Measure arrached to the same strap (with a vent-pick threaded between the strap and the measure and the loop bent at a 90º anvle so that it hangs beside the measure). "Short-starter" is choking up on the last 5" of the rammer. Push right through the bloak all the way down to fully seated. Prime from the same horn as the main charge. I can get off all three shots from the block in a minute on a good day and if I don't aim much. Plus the one already in the barrel is four relatively fast shots without even needing the hunting bag; let alone opening it. I'm now carrying the patch knife inside the bag as I shoot 99% of the time from the loading blocks. I can re-attach it to the strap in a few minutes for "load-from-the-bag" events.

 

[Blue Smoke]

Just what are quick loads for, anyway? They let you reload in say, 15 seconds, but the durn critter is over the hill by then, or he's down and kicking. Here's what I learned back in the last century: Ya shoot, the critter disappears in the cloud of smoke. Don't move! Stop and reload. Now go look for the game. That half minute while you reload, usually a wounded animal will stop moving and bed down. You're reloaded and ready to deal with whatever you find.

I don't know how many times I've dropped one Deer to have another one standing there watching me reload.I've learned not to worry what the Deer is doing just pay attention on reloading,get it done as fast as I can.

Last two Deer I killed last year,dropped one,said I wasn't going to reload,only to have one Snorting and stomping behind me Maybe I better reload.Reloaded,shot the second Deer.

Blue Smoke