Recovered jute tow

[CyrusP]

I recovered some jute tow just now that wound up 10 or so yards in front of my NWTG muzzle. 60 grains Goex 2f, .600 ball, ball of jute tow I unravelled from twine. Pre-Moistened in my pie hole. The grey one is very likely from last shooting session. I just wanted to share as I’d never seen it before in my newness to using tow. I like it so far.

 

[Clark Badgett]

Re-use it. I do.

 

[CyrusP]

I will for sure. But I’ll spit on it instead of moistening in my cake hole.

 

[Clark Badgett]

I will for sure. But I’ll spit on it instead of moistening in my cake hole.

Oh come on. Be brave.

To be honest, there is probably no real advantage to moistening wadding at all.

 

[wiscoaster]

How short did you cut the twine before you started unravelling it?

 

[CyrusP]

7 inches. As per someone’s recommendation here recently.

 

[wiscoaster]

Thanks.

 

[flatcreek]

How short did you cut the twine before you started unravelling it?

I wanted to know that also, that stuff's a bugger to unwind.

 

[wiscoaster]

.... that stuff's a bugger to unwind.

I was thinking about posting a thread on making tow to for the "patience impaired". Like me. What I did was to boil the strands in water for a while. The boiling relaxes the strands and the boiling motion of the water also unravels them to some degree. Squeeze dry and heat in an oven. The result is much easier to pick apart into respectful tow.

 

[Clark Badgett]

I was thinking about posting a thread on making tow to for the "patience impaired". Like me. What I did was to boil the strands in water for a while. The boiling relaxes the strands and the boiling motion of the water also unravels them to some degree. Squeeze dry and heat in an oven. The result is much easier to pick apart into respectful tow.

Honestly I just bought a huge bag of linen tow from a place in Frankfort Ky a few years ago.

 

[wiscoaster]

Honestly I just bought a huge bag of linen tow from a place in Frankfort Ky a few years ago.

Attribute for source? Linen tow would be more historically appropriate.

 

[Clark Badgett]

Attribute for source? Linen tow would be more historically appropriate.

It was called The Woolery. https://woolery.com/flax-tow.html

They have hemp tow as well. Just as correct.

 

[duca]

Pie hole? Wow

 

[CyrusP]

Pie hole=mouth. What were you thinking?

 

[Smokey Plainsman]

I enluben mine with undeviled swine’s lard. They shant burst asunder so treated and not so much as take a char.

 

[CyrusP]

I see the Woolery is $55.00 delivered for a pound, which with reuse would go a LONG way. I’ll see if I can find some at the Kempton show in a few weeks and if not I’ll order from Woolery for sure. Thanks for that link.

 

[Clark Badgett]

Yes. I just happened to catch them open when I was visiting my dad a few years ago. It was $30 at the time. There are other sources if you google it, but I don’t know if any are cheaper.

 

[BillinOregon]

https://flaxforsale.com/html/the_store.html