| fuhrmann |
| (.333 member) |
| 25/02/08 05:33 PM |
Re: RE: Book, Shooting the British Double Rifle, please com
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I don't know if it is Kapok I have been using for years, I doubt it, but it is the sort of thing one buys at a materials store, for sewing, and is sold for stufffing into teddy bears and such, and for making quilting. This sort of thing I have never seen burn, upon firing from rifle, but one can see it leave the barrel, but not on fire or anything like that.
Thanks for this explanation.
So very probably this is Dacron or similar material, a man-made fiber (PET, polyethylene terephtahalate). I believe this is what is used today for such applications.
Kapok is a natural fiber (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapok), seems to have been used in older days).
I think anything used as a component for reloading should be properly identified.
Fuhrmann