Spilling powder

[sportster73hp]

Did a lot of bass fishing in the past. A day on the water beat a day anywhere else fish caught or not.
I just use the bottle with a pour spout and a Tc or traditions adjustable measure with attached funnel. Slow down and spill less.

 

[Coinneach]

Less stressful more frustrating

Not if yer lerve Gurns...

 

[Coinneach]

Shoo. Might as well take up golf.
Got annoyed with a project. Wife sez "Why not go play a round over at the course?"
Six tries to get off the first tee and I went back home with a different outlook on the project.

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IMHO Golf courses are a sin full waste of a great Shooting range.

Decades ago in the north of South Australia (where I grew up) there was a bush Gold Club where "the Greens" and Cup were Sump oiled levelled Sand, while everything else was left natural. Most of the Golfers kept a Shotgun stored butt up in their Golf bag (my Dad and Grandad too) to shy off the hordes of Crows that swooped them. Those ol boys considered the shooting to be as much a part of Golf as the Teeing off.

 

[Mad L]

Personally I find all those shiny brass and, glass, and plastic gadgets a pain to handle and the opening too small and yes I had some spillage.
I got rid of them and went KISS; a good well shaped powder horn and a simple horn measure for my desired load. The horn measure has larger opening and by using one 5g larger then my charge I simply measured (at home) and make a mark. I also filed one spot at the lip to make a better pour channel.
Now if I spill any, which I seldom do, it just a few grains at the muzzle, even then a flick of the finger usually all it takes to knock it in.

Really very simple, only thing I cry over now is spilled lagavulin as our stores have been out of stock since November!

 

[Ohio.75]

Lagavulin is so peaty! But I like your approach, and we share an appreciation of BP smoke.

 

[Mad L]

Lagavulin is so peaty! But I like your approach, and we share an appreciation of BP smoke.

Well, my mother always said I was a "Little Rascal"

 

[Ohio.75]

Well, my mother always said I was a "Little Rascal"

We must be on the same wavelength somehow, because my nickname as a toddler was "Rascal." No kidding. I wish you the best with my glass of Glenfiddich!

 

[Mad L]

We must be on the same wavelength somehow, because my nickname as a toddler was "Rascal." No kidding. I wish you the best with my glass of Glenfiddich!

That's my uncle's Scotch...I like mine to Bite Back personally, like my rum; no flavored, spiced, sweet stuff for me - pot distilled cane only, I let the kiddies guzzle the koolaid

Actually old British rum had to be of such Proof that if spilled in the powder it would still fire

(Oh No, I said "Proof" again)

 

[oldwood]

Liked the fishin' video where the fellers was a blazin' away at somethin ' in the shallows. Reminded me of ketchin' bull frogs with a .45. Had ta use big , cause a wounded frog is wasteful...........oldwood

 

[FPDoc]

Ardbeg and Laphroaig are two other distilleries on the same road as Lagavullin in Port Ellen on the island of Islay. My favorite is cask strength Laphroaig (coming in at a bit over 57% ETOH. Laphroaig is the peatiest with Lagavulin next, followed by Ardbeg. These are either loved or hated and said to be shared only with your best friend.. or.. your worst enemy.

 

[FPDoc]

Personally I find all those shiny brass and, glass, and plastic gadgets a pain to handle and the opening too small and yes I had some spillage.
I got rid of them and went KISS; a good well shaped powder horn and a simple horn measure for my desired load. The horn measure has larger opening and by using one 5g larger then my charge I simply measured (at home) and make a mark. I also filed one spot at the lip to make a better pour channel.
Now if I spill any, which I seldom do, it just a few grains at the muzzle, even then a flick of the finger usually all it takes to knock it in.

Really very simple, only thing I cry over now is spilled lagavulin as our stores have been out of stock since November!

Agree with addition of Laphroaig or Ardbeg. Recent price increases make spillage a criminal act.. I think.

 

[FPDoc]

IMHO Golf courses are a sin full waste of a great Shooting range.

Decades ago in the north of South Australia (where I grew up) there was a bush Gold Club where "the Greens" and Cup were Sump oiled levelled Sand, while everything else was left natural. Most of the Golfers kept a Shotgun stored butt up in their Golf bag (my Dad and Grandad too) to shy off the hordes of Crows that swooped them. Those ol boys considered the shooting to be as much a part of Golf as the Teeing off.

I always wanted to play skeet golf.. when one guy hits the golf ball the opponent tries to blow it out of the sky. The players take turns hitting and shooting but must play their ball "as is" for the rest of that hole while the shooter continues to degrade its aerodynamic status.

 

[Coinneach]

Personally I find all those shiny brass and, glass, and plastic gadgets a pain to handle and the opening too small and yes I had some spillage.
I got rid of them and went KISS; a good well shaped powder horn and a simple horn measure for my desired load. The horn measure has larger opening and by using one 5g larger then my charge I simply measured (at home) and make a mark. I also filed one spot at the lip to make a better pour channel.
Now if I spill any, which I seldom do, it just a few grains at the muzzle, even then a flick of the finger usually all it takes to knock it in.

Really very simple, only thing I cry over now is spilled lagavulin as our stores have been out of stock since November!

Agreed, why bother toting a possibles bag full of dinky little glass bottles or whatever containers, might as well make rolled paper cartridges and be done with it.

If fellas want the glass bottle option then make it easier by lugging a convenient Plastic Range Box with a handle as the Buffalo Rifle guys do, no shame in that.

 

[Coinneach]

I always wanted to play skeet golf.. when one guy hits the golf ball the opponent tries to blow it out of the sky. The players take turns hitting and shooting but must play their ball "as is" for the rest of that hole while the shooter continues to degrade its aerodynamic status.

LOVE IT !

 

[Eric Krewson]

When I shoot at the 50 yard range alongside my shop usually walk back into the shop to reload and make any sight adjustments, I spill a little power but don't worry about it.

One day after not vacuuming the floor in front of my work bench for several months I happened to drop a burning piece of something or other when I was working on another project and the floor erupted with more of a flash than I would have expected.

I clean up more often now.

 

[sheriff john]

Glad I'm not the only one. Remarkable how spilled powder builds up in odd places like shooting benches, work benches, and concrete floors. Swept up, tossed small bag onto burn pile. Primers popped, powder whooshed. Oughta clean up more often.

 

[Coinneach]

That's my uncle's Scotch...I like mine to Bite Back personally, like my rum; no flavored, spiced, sweet stuff for me - pot distilled cane only, I let the kiddies guzzle the koolaid

Actually old British rum had to be of such Proof that if spilled in the powder it would still fire

(Oh No, I said "Proof" again)

Yep, here in the land of Aussie theres nothing more enjoyable than Spiced Rum in the Winter months, a goodly nip with Honey sweetened Black Coffee is a great elixer too.

 

[Zutt-man]

It’s hard to not spill powder in the field. Trying to keep it to an absolute minimum is a must with current powder prices.

The only time I use a brass measure is when I’m trying to find the right load for a gun or testing new load combinations. Once I find the load I’m after, I create my own measure out of antler (super easy to make) with the specific grainage. Larger hole to pour into, less powder spilled. I also put a small channel on the top of my measure so the powder has a natural path to flow through.

When I load, I make a funnel with my hands around the end of the barrel to make sure I’m not losing any on my pour.

 

[bpflint2007]

A couple of pounds of powder used to last me years, now it lasts a month or so. I don’t have the property to do any woods walking or hunting yet so I just pour powder out of the can into a Traditions brass flask and the funnel on it holds 35 grains of powder. Makes it easy to pour into an actual measure when it’s metered that way.

I don’t seem to spill any appreciable amount of powder and since I’m not buying 10+ pounds at a time (or thousands of caps or many dozens of flints) the small amount I spill I don’t worry much about as I’m usually working off of a plastic table set on gravel. Maybe this year I’ll spill a couple of dollars of powder with how often I’m shooting but look at prices of any type of cartridge these days. The amount I’ll spill is a drop in the bucket comparatively.

 

[Cattywompuss]

IMHO Golf courses are a sin full waste of a great Shooting range.

Decades ago in the north of South Australia (where I grew up) there was a bush Gold Club where "the Greens" and Cup were Sump oiled levelled Sand, while everything else was left natural. Most of the Golfers kept a Shotgun stored butt up in their Golf bag (my Dad and Grandad too) to shy off the hordes of Crows that swooped them. Those ol boys considered the shooting to be as much a part of Golf as the Teeing off.

Also a sinful waste of good water, nitrogen, and a heap of time and chemicals. Used to be a turf manager and uncertified agronomist in a former life. I've turned a genuine river bottom horse pasture into a finely carpeted .5 inch cut carpet of Tif 409. And I regret doing so nowadays.