Dusty - Enjoyed the video! I'm also a Cowboy Action Shooter. I'm a member of the Wartrace Regulators in Wartrace, TN. I've been trying to do some roll crimping on my 12 ga shells with smokeless powder and 3/4 oz shot. You've given me some great ideas. Might even try black powder one of these days.
@archer721 Жыл бұрын
I’ve used fiber wads over a playing card with another over it for 40 years with absolutely no problems, it’s the way my grandfather did it and that’s how I learned… I’ve used News paper even a time or ten
@HobbiesHobo2 жыл бұрын
Good video Dusty, I just started playing with shotgun loading, buckshot & slugs. I also have a box of 28 Ga & .410 brass shells but I need a few more components before I load them. I have an antique 12 gauge roll crimper, still need a 20 gauge one as well as the hand priming tools for both. Funny how the list of cool old tools never gets any shorter.Thanks, Mike.
@SHOTGUN-Z2 ай бұрын
This is so awesome. Im just going to go this route instead of all brass. Plus i dont like littering. I try very hard in my life to never litter. It bugs me at the trap range how much plastic is out there. Using fiber wading is super awesome. Its getting hard to find though right? Nobody seems to understand that not everyone like non organic materials.
@johnhunter3120 Жыл бұрын
I've used a 12ga choke sharpened to punch out cards from clear plastic about as thick as a coke bottle plastic and used it over my shot so I can look and see what's loaded in that particular shell.
@sleeperno12152 жыл бұрын
I made my buckshot loads with 80g 2F with a thin over powder card a ball of flax tow for a cushion and another thin cardboard disk. Then I used 9 .31 balls with cream of wheat as a buffer with a final thin over shot card. Sealed the end with candle wax. Did not have a roll crimper. The pattern from each round was almost identical to a factory Remington 2.75 - 00 buck round. The round I made was identical to my flintlock load. Shotguns are forgiving use what you have.
@fixed9708 ай бұрын
Would have liked to see a fired hull from that load if you had one. Are you able to reload them again?
@rugerman892 жыл бұрын
Great video Dusty; fun to watch your techniques. I do pretty much the exact same things except I use a 4.3cc Lee dipper to measure my 65 grains of BP and I don't have a roll crimper so I just use a hot glue gun to seal the overshot card in. Seems to work great as well.
@jmartin9059 Жыл бұрын
*THANK YOU FOR THE DEMO. I HOPE YOU RECOVERED FROM ILLNESS. SOME OF US happen to prefer a deeper or taller roll crimp... for a more positive card retention seal and to avoid overshot card being cut by any sharp edges on the face of the rotary roll crimp tools. As a matter of fact , because MOST Canadian coins are steel or steel with copper insert... A COIN might make a good primer seater tool. Would that be a good and practical use for coins ?*
@440pressurewashing11 ай бұрын
Do you have video on how to punch playing card with punch
@sleeperno12152 жыл бұрын
I like the playing cards. I cut cards from my dog’s ivermectin box. The nitro card is not needed and takes up valuable space.
@ieaEH2 жыл бұрын
How does the black powder compare to smokeless powder as far as ballistics? Great video I like the idea of antique and homemade tools.
@Dusty_Tucker2 жыл бұрын
I don't have a chronograph At the moment I would like to get one and test a bunch of stuff. I find blackpowder in shockun pretty mild. Less concussive force. But equal damage For lead. Thanks for watching!
@ledenhimeganidleshitz14411 ай бұрын
If you like this old time priming tool ... just put a wood block in the handel as a stop to prevent over seatimg. Epoxy should do the job.
@SilntObsvr Жыл бұрын
I've gotten the impression from reading that you shouldn't load black powder in plastic hulls -- every recommendation I can find suggests obtaining paper hulls, as well as avoiding plastic wad components. Does this melt your hulls and make them not reusable again, or is it not a problem?
@kypparmstrong27758 ай бұрын
I reload plastic hulls with BP, no more than twice. They are pretty toasted by then. I pick up used shotcups and use it on top of a nitro card and cushion wad. I don't use the plastic shotcup with the piston and gas seal attached as those probably would melt. I do what is called a Square Load. A measure that holds 1oz of shot, same measure for a volume of BP.
@The411 Жыл бұрын
Has anyone ever used those white fiber dropped ceiling tiles as cushion wad? The ones that always stain brown when they get wet...
@johnhunter3120 Жыл бұрын
No but those are made from sugar Cain pulp. Not really that tough.
@MbalmR97TX2 жыл бұрын
isn't Black Powder cheaper then Smokless Powder?
@Dusty_Tucker2 жыл бұрын
Now yeah haha, before not so much. Also you go through more BP volume then smokeless.
@saltcreekammo2 жыл бұрын
There seems to be a lot more BP substitutes on the shelves for me locally... I've been loading traditional style 16 gauge loads with 777 FFG rifle/shotgun powder... 60-65 grains, hard nitro card, waxed cushion wad, thin overshot card, 1 ounce of shot, roll crimped with BPI 16 gauge overshot card... I think it's a 2.5 dram load rated to 1250 FPS. Fun to shoot in my old Stevens model 94C
@mrhalfstep2 жыл бұрын
A cigar box provides a good material to punch nitro cards out of.
@spyrosmos2387 Жыл бұрын
Η αγελάδα μου είναι πολύ πιο έξυπνη......
@DODGE782 Жыл бұрын
Christ sake get on with it!!!
@fixed9708 ай бұрын
Informative video but rambles on a little to much at times.
@Navyuncle10 ай бұрын
Why not just get a Mec 600 and use smokeless powder with a tested recipe? A lot safer, only one tool , tested and tried and not DANGEROUS!