Another lubed wad question (sorry)

[tacfoley]

You and I go back a little ways, and I know that you have huge experience in the craft, but like you, I just can't resist a chance for a wind up now and again

WRT emoticons, at he risk of "grandmothers and eggs" etc. you could try the original hand crafted smiley

:-)

[which is the characters "colon" "minus" "right bracket" (tip your head to the left to see the image)]. It's a little bit more effort than a mouse click, but so much more satisfying.

or frownie :-(

or Oh! :-O

or Hmmm :-|

or cool 8-) [also sunglasses]

or eek! 8-0

or big grin :-D

or poke tongue out :-P

or wink ;-)

et ever so very cetera.

You can probably tell that I am an old fashioned original Usenet type (the early internet, before the WWW, where practically everything was text only). Many modern phones (and some PCs), in a misplaced attempt to be helpful, will automatically replace those characters with an appropriate image which I find less than helpful - we are told that this is progress but somehow, preferring the hand crafted look, I do not see this as such. So much of what we are told is progress not actually better, merely different.

Thanks for the emoticons - I DO use them on my own machiens, but all you'd see is a little hollow square, like writing a foreign pictographic language without the programme. the nmy granddaughter uses them on her laptop, but of course, I dare not touch THAT! I worked for eight years in Tokyo and still do occasional work from home, so I'm not about to junk my seriously good PCs and laptops for want of a smiley. ;-)

あなたはこれを読むことができます？それは日本人です。

That work? How do you see that?

tac

[Turnup]

Thanks for the emoticons - I DO use them on my own machiens, but all you'd see is a little hollow square, like writing a foreign pictographic language without the programme. the nmy granddaughter uses them on her laptop, but of course, I dare not touch THAT! I worked for eight years in Tokyo and still do occasional work from home, so I'm not about to junk my seriously good PCs and laptops for want of a smiley. ;-)

あなたはこれを読むことができます？それは日本人です。

That work? How do you see that?

tac

はい、web から少し助けを借りて

[CapnBall]

I went off fibre or felt wads as I became sure they seem to upset the ball at the muzzle. And the range roof has wooden baffles, and sometimes these Wonderful wads were really whacking the wood leaving dents. Heavy, lube-soaked homemade lube-soaked wads reach the target !

A GREAT article by John L. Fuhring turned me into a Cookie Monster...

I tried lube cookies instead - a disc of just 50-50 beeswax/trex or whatever your poison is. About 1/8th inch thick. Just set it on top of the powder and squeeze the ball down 'just so' so that you get no air-gap, but don't squash the cookie too much, needs a wee bit of thought for the charge.

I swear, the improvement in accuracy and reduced fouling has to be seen to be believed. You can shoot without a jam up ALL day even with el-cheapo-fantastico-Kranko BP. Bonus -makes a chainfire impossible imho.

Still no good for the indoor ranges where lube mess is banned. But do try cookies outdoors, they work.

Credit -where due, this is John's article:

http://www.geojohn.org/BlackPowder/bps3.html

[tacfoley]

Chainfires don't happen from the front, with flames somehow wrapping themselves out around a swaged-in ball, but from the back, via loose-fitting caps on worn nipples.

tac

[loiner1965]

As above

[Renegade Master]

Thanks for the continued advice. I like the sound of lube cookies, seems like a good solution. Would you use a .44 or .45 case to cut them out?

[simgre]

I only ever use wads if using Triple 7 indoors. I don't use a lube either. Real BP and Pyrodex don't need them. My opinion is that they detract from performance.