shot cup pattern please

[kd8jgu]

Looking to see if anyone has a pattern for a shot cup 12ga.
If you do.
Please post.
Thanks

 

[rabjr]

Pretty easy to do Chuck. Get a dowel that fits close to your bore and wrap clear tape around it until its a few thousands under your bore diameter. Wrap your paper around the dowel and fold the end over. Pour a shot load your going to use into the cup and mark the top of the shot, cut the cup at that length. Once you get how tall the paper is including what you fold over, you can make the size cup you need in one shot wrapping it on the dowel....

 

[Joel/Calgary]

Another version is a 2-petal shot-cup formed from a long rectangle of heavy paper or light card stock, with a width of half your bore circumference (or a bit wider for a little overlap) and a length of twice the height of your shot charge plus the width of your bore. Set the end of your wad-starting dowel in the middle of the paper, fold the two petals up along the dowel and wrap them around it, tuck under the two corners you get on the bottom where the edges of the petals meet (or overlap a bit), and slide it in on top of your cushion wad or a card. Things go a bit easier if you form these up ahead of time and set the creases and such, then open them out flat for carrying. Then if your material is stiff enough and your bore is large enough or your fingers skinny enough, you may even be able to just use your finger for forming and loading in the field.

Regards,
Joel

 

[kd8jgu]

Just purchased pillow tickl at JoAnn fabrics for .99 cents a yrd.
I bought the bolt for 16 bucks so it was less then the price mentioned I think some one made a misstake.