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Hickory ram rods
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Well put Bob ... Funny ....I was getting ramrod blanks from TOTW then I got a couple things from Log Cabin a year later and included some ramrods blanks . I was shocked ... I thought that I was getting wholesale price as the blanks were so much cheaper that Track ...I was just up st Log Cabin a month ago ...nope , not wholesale just damn inexpensive ...and NICE grain in them too !
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Rasp to rough shape files to clean rasp marks ....
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An arrow shaft maker friend tried his hand a turning ramrods on his 50K arrow shaft machines, he didn't have the straightest stock to start with so his ramrods had some runout. He was a bit of perfectionist and gave up on turning ramrods, he gave me a bundle of 48 of his test ramrods. Some were beyond hope, but the rest had some clean, runout free, useable parts, especially for shorter rods like a TC. I gave them away by the handfuls to my M/L friends, before long I only had 5 or 6 of them left, I wish I had kept more.
Fortunately, I heard of Dan Putz and his outstanding ramrods before his passing and bought enough blanks to last me a lifetime, at my advanced age this is only 5 or 6.
In 50 years of black powder shooting, I have never broken a ramrod, some of them that came with my earlier TCs were pitiful by today's standards, I didn't know good from bad back then, but they never broke.
Fortunately, I heard of Dan Putz and his outstanding ramrods before his passing and bought enough blanks to last me a lifetime, at my advanced age this is only 5 or 6.
In 50 years of black powder shooting, I have never broken a ramrod, some of them that came with my earlier TCs were pitiful by today's standards, I didn't know good from bad back then, but they never broke.
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