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Raw wool instead of flax tow
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But allot of searches lead here to old topics you find info..
I wonder.. the wool back then was much softer. Must have not been like today's woolen.
But allot of searches lead here to old topics you find info..
I wonder.. the wool back then was much softer. Must have not been like today's woolen.
Indians were known to use worn out wool blankets as wadding, along with grass, leaves and anything else that would hold a ball down. Wait until people realize that for a decent period of the flintlock era patched ball used linen and membrane more than cotton. Wait until certain people hear that it wasn’t exactly unheard of to tie a patch around a ball and keep them in their bags.
Oh no it wasn’t. There were just many grades of woolens. Some rather coarse and scratchy, some nearly as fine as silk.
I'm just wondering how.. this wool works good today?
And now because of a whatever he posted.. it was no good back then?
I mention. The maybe used that. Good range reports. I used it in my Shotgun.. modern wool wads though. They worked good.
I say yea maybe right.. they used that then too..
This guy's jumping up my..
And now because of a whatever he posted.. it was no good back then?
I mention. The maybe used that. Good range reports. I used it in my Shotgun.. modern wool wads though. They worked good.
I say yea maybe right.. they used that then too..
This guy's jumping up my..
Wool works because it’s usually a bit thicker when woven, especially blankets, it is naturally fire resistant which helps when blasted out of something that uses an explosion for power.
Click on the word "HERE" in my post. It's a link. The book title is below (and is from 1791, not 1797.)Dude what source did you post.
It's like a not even a sentence
An Essay on Shooting: Containing the Various Methods of Forging, Boring, and Dressing Gun Barrels ... Remarks on the Properties and Action of Gunpowder ... the Methods of Training Pointers--and a Short Description of the Game of this Country ... The Whole Interspersed with Summary Observations on the Various Subjects of the Sport
We're talking about raw, unwoven wool.
As for patches tied around balls, I believe this was the origin of bullet boards- to hold the patch and ball together and facilitate sewing the patch closed. Pop them out, put them in the bag, less to fumble with in the field.
You know
. That book is looking like it's.. HC wadding the more I read.. I might even go to the.
. That book is looking like it's.. HC wadding the more I read.. I might even go to the.
Shooting blanks by the time he's done loading this thing.
We Even allowed to use a lube or no..
We Even allowed to use a lube or no..
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I call 
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What gives anyway you know?
Oooo wool I love wool. It's so HC.
. What gives anyway you know?
Oooo wool I love wool. It's so HC.
We need specifics Bob..
What country Bob. What year. Who. Male or female.
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Oh this just gets more and more comical.
What part is comical?
The OP asked about raw wool instead of tow, not pieces of woven material.
He posted a link to a book written in 1791 by W. Cleator, called An Essay on Shooting: Containing the Various Methods of Forging, Boring, and Dressing Gun Barrels… Remarks on the Properties and Action of Gunpowder… the Methods of Training Pointers- - and a Short Description of the Game of this Country … The Whole Interspersed with Summary Observations on the Various Subjects of the Sport.”Dude what source did you post.
It's like a not even a sentence
I swear they must have gotten paid by the pound for titles back then!
You can find it here by clicking on the blue letters: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=Q3ECAAAAYAAJ&rdid=book-Q3ECAAAAYAAJ&rdot=1
Here’s the section, with the pertinent information in bold type. The takeaway is that the author says cotton and wool are crap for wadding- felt from hats is the best, and soft brown paper is a decent, cheap alternative to felt.
“WADDING . MANY ſportſmen are of opinion, that the wadding, of whatever material it may be compofed, or whether it be rammed looſe, or tight, into the barrel, has no effect, either on the range of the fhot, or the clofenefs with which they are thrown. Now, although it may be granted, that the material which covers the fhot, and which is uſed only for the purpoſe of keeping it down, is of little importance, yet, the ſubftance which covers the powder is undoubtedly of much confequence. It ſhould be quite cloſe in the barrel, and that without being rammed too hard; the wadding fhould therefore be of a foft and tractable material, but at the fame time of fufficient confiftence, to carry the ſhot in a body, to a certain diſtance from the muzzle of the piece. For, if the wadding is rammed too clofe, or is of a hard and rigid fubftance, fuch as ſtiff brown paper, the piece will recoil, and the ſhot will ſpread more wide: if, on the contrary, the wadding is not sufficiently clofe, and is compofed of a flight and too pliant a material, such as wool or cotton, it will not be of confiftence enough to carry the ſhot, and the diſcharge will lofe its proper force. Befides, a certain portion of the ſhot which is more immediately in contact with the wadding, will be melted by the exploſion of the powder. In the former part of this treatiſe, where we treated of the hot of fowling pieces, we have given our reaſons for preferring wadding made of hat, by means of a punch fitted to the bore of the piece, to every other; but as this is not eafily procured in fufficient quantity, we muſt employ fome thing that is at once cheap, and adequate to the purpoſe . Next to hat, therefore, experience teaches, that nothing is better for wadding than ſoft brown paper; it combines fuppleneſs with confiftence, and moulds itſelf to the barrel: and it is further obfervable, that ſuch wadding never falls to the ground, in leſs than twelve or fifteen paces from the muzzle of the piece.”
Northwoodstrapper
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Almost all trapping supply companies sell it
blfuller
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Wonder if llama or alpaca wool would work just as well as sheep's wool.
Considering sheep's wool apparently DOESN'T work, according to a period source that actually tried it...
Your bullet board conjecture. Keep throwing those rocks from your glass house.
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