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DoubleD
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Re: Dacron or Kapok [Re: akjeff]
#59951 - 14/07/06 02:21 PM

akjeff,

Remember this picture from my earlier post.

Well after taking the picture, I put the case back in the box to dig the plug out later. Later came and without thinking I dumped the box of cases in the tumbler without digging the plug out and went to work. Things went bad a work and I ended up working a bunch of 16 hour days. Three or four days later I turned the tumbler off. When I finally got time to pull the cases out of the tumbler this is what I found.

And of course this is what was still in the case.

I don't use Pufflon any more.

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DD, Ret.

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akjeff
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Re: Dacron or Kapok [Re: DoubleD]
#59966 - 15/07/06 12:25 AM

DD,

Man, that's scary! Thanks for posting. I don't like the looks of that at all.

Pass the Dacron and Kapok!

Jeff

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DoubleD
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Re: Dacron or Kapok [Re: akjeff]
#59967 - 15/07/06 01:02 AM

Cpt Curl as promised here is the posts on NfB loads int he 577/450.
Nitro for Black Martini loads

Smokeless loads and compressed filler

And just in case this gets lost because in the last post on the first page....

First a word of caution about brass shotgun cases.They can be used, but read this without fail before you use a brass shotgun case.

Word of caution about balloon head cases

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BlainSmipy
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Re: FAO: Rusty [Re: akjeff]
#59970 - 15/07/06 05:54 AM

The foam just shoots out the barrels or burns and weighs nearly nothing.

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CptCurl
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Re: FAO: Rusty [Re: BlainSmipy]
#59972 - 15/07/06 08:16 AM

I have also been using foam wads made per Graeme Wright's method. I got my foam in 1 inch thick sheets at WalMart. I made a plug cutter by sharpening the edge of a piece of 1/2" copper pipe. Chucked in a drill press it will glide right though the foam sheet to cut out a nice 1" foam wad for my .500 BPE.

My friend I referred to above (in regard to the felt wads) also sent me some foam wads he bought from Kynoch. I see no appreciable difference in the Kynoch wads and the ones I cut out of WalMart foam.

In my .500 3" BPE I load 56.0 gr. IMR 4198, 2 - 1" foam wads, 340 grain paper patched or cast and lubed bullet. No problems to report.

Before foam I was using 13 grains of dacron. What a chore weighing it, and what a mess from the snow shower when it goes off.

I do plan to try the felt wads.

Curl

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