Lubed wad container

[grog]

For those that lube wads with some kind of oil, What do you use to carry them so oil doesn't get on everything.

 

[Rifleman1776]

Plastic zip lock baggies, just like the real mountain men did. :grin:

 

[BrownBear]

After all these years I'm still using the little leather wallet on the left in this photo.


Here's a look at it with the flap folded back.


I'm lubing those fiber wads with olive oil, but letting them drain a bit before loading the wallet. Didn't take long for the excess oil to "treat" the leather, so there's been no tendency for the leather to dry out wads ever since.

Edit: I've long since swapped out the English spout on that shot flask for Irish. Much better for my needs.

 

[grog]

Thanks, I've been using zip locks but I wanted a more HC container and had concerns about a leather one getting saturated after a while. Looks like yours is working good Brown Bear.

 

[hunts4deer]

Altoids Tins. I roasted them in the embers of my charcoal grill to burn off the paint. Then clean them up a little. They take on a great patina of blue-gray gun metal color.

 

[Hermit]

Just a cloth open top pouch att. to open top shot bag.
Hermit

 

[George]

Me too.



Spence

 

[pinemarten]

I am really liking using a loading block. This is with bear oil and keeps it al together without getting in a big mess in the shooting bag. Seems like it the oil keeps to the block.

Daniel

 

[smoothshooter]

Older Altoids tin with the paint burned off.
Don't like the newer ones because they have raised lettering in the lid. Some people peen the letters out and make it look good.

 

[Stumpkiller]

I also use General Altoid's Snuff Tins. ;-)

The little one is my tool tin (with a cotton bag inside so they don't rattle). This is what they look like when you peen out the raised lettering.

For cartridges, too.