Loading block trick

[Tom A Hawk]

I've taken to making my loading blocks a bit thicker than necessary. This allows me to seat a greased felt wad under the ball and ram both down together. Saves fumbling around with cold fingers and makes the reload a bit more efficient. The greased wads seem to keep fouling soft and I get more shots before having to swab.

 

[Jackalope]

That's a great idea!

 

[Flint62Smoothie]

With a thicker block, one can also add a counterbore to center the round onto the muzzle! That’s what I do for my blocks that I run the Winter snowshoe MZL biathlons with, at least when not using paper cartridge loads.

 

[tenngun]

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I've taken to making my loading blocks a bit thicker than necessary. This allows me to seat a greased felt wad under the ball and ram both down together. Saves fumbling around with cold fingers and makes the reload a bit more efficient. The greased wads seem to keep fouling soft and I get more shots before having to swab.

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All right. Now drill your short starter hole deep enough to make a powder charger. Pull one piece from bag, pull short starter, charge gun start ball and run home return pack to bag.... easy-peasy

 

[Tom A Hawk]

Good thought. Unfortunately to make a space for hunting charge beyond the end of the short starter, the block would need to be about 8" long..

 

[Sicilian Hunter]

I've taken to making my loading blocks a bit thicker than necessary. This allows me to seat a greased felt wad under the ball and ram both down together. Saves fumbling around with cold fingers and makes the reload a bit more efficient. The greased wads seem to keep fouling soft and I get more shots before having to swab.

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Tom,
Nice work!!
I'm partial to the round type.
Are you hanging it off your shooting bag strap or on a separate Wang?

 

[Tom A Hawk]

Yeah, I like the round style also for hunting. Have tried it on the bag strap but find it flops and bangs around a bit and the measure dingles like a bell. So, I put it in the bag now.

 

[Sicilian Hunter]

Yeah, I like the round style also for hunting. Have tried it on the bag strap but find it flops and bangs around a bit and the measure dingles like a bell. So, I put it in the bag now.

Tom,
Mark Baker recommended wearing it above the sternum high on the chest and if I recall, on separate Wang around the neck.
Not sure I agree for the same reason you mention

 

[Mad Dog]

Nice! This what led me to this forum in search of making a bullet board while I am stuck in the house.

 

[Greenjoytj]

I drilled 2 extra holes in my TOTW bullet board so I could stack 3 wads in each hole to match up with the 6 PRB’s the board came with. The short starter pushes on a wad stack till one wad slides out the other side. I insert the wad into the muzzle first then I use the bottom hemisphere of the PRB I’m pushing out to locate and lock into the muzzle, then smack it down.