What we need to shoot

[tenngun]

My daughter got me a small copper pot for Christmas. I just finished up sewing a new shirt, and am sewwing up a pair of saddle bags to use to carry my stuff to camp instead of pack baskets. My kit has shirts, coats, trousers, shoes, tin and now copper cooking gear, pipes tobbaco pouchs, fire steels, sewing kits ict. Then bag of chargers ball wad or patch stuff and wiping gear. How much equipment does it take to run ball down a bore?

 

[Rick Boylan]

Maybe it's not so much running the ball down the bore, but how comfortable do you want to be while doing it?

:haha: :rotf: :v

 

[Spikebuck]

How much equipment does it take to run ball down a bore?

With all the stuff slung about me while hunting I feel like Jacob Marley in "A Christmas Carol" wearing the "chains I forged in life." :wink: :grin:

 

How much equipment does it take to run ball down a bore?

It sounds like you're describing "camping", then asking about "shooting". Two different endeavors.

 

[coloradoclyde]

I think there is to much Boy Scout in us sometimes....Remember the motto?

 

[htredneck]

I work off the principle 'better to have and not need, than to need and not have'

 

[robert reed]

+1 :thumbsup:

 

[coloradoclyde]

I work off the principle 'better to have and not need, than to need and not have'

Exactly!! :thumbsup:
I'm notorious for over packing. :grin:

 

[Stumpkiller]

Then bag of chargers ball wad or patch stuff and wiping gear. How much equipment does it take to run ball down a bore?

"Chargers" is what you use to put electrycicles back in cell-phones. You want a horn! ;-)

 

[Sean Gadhar]

The trick is to partner up with some boy scout that brings everything. Then you just carry your firearm. :idunno:

Don't believe me? Ask my wife what she need to bring hunting :rotf:

 

[omarick1948]

How much equipment does it take to run ball down a bore?

Answer to your question!......A RAMROD!

 

[tenngun]

How much equipment does it take to run ball down a bore?

It sounds like you're describing "camping", then asking about "shooting". Two different endeavors.

I got my first rifle a flask a 'charger'... Powder measure... Had to buy a horn then a bag, then a cleaning rod and so on and so on.had to be able to make camp when I shot. Had to have the right clothing, had to replace the clothing the horn and bag with more h c stuff and so on and so on, all because ol shinny balls and stinky powder and guns that were a lot more fun the. Any thing I had shot before... Or since. :wink:

 

[eaglesnester]

Not much. However it be a different story if ya dryball. Of course none of us have ever done that before. HeHe.

 

[Joe Wolf]

It takes a short starter to start the patched ball in a tight bore fit situation. A very few guns nowadays have a "coned" barrel wher the rifling was removed from the first inch or so from the muzzle. That allowed the whole ball to be inserted into the bore.
The use your ramrod to push the ball down to the powder charge. Put the same amount of pushing pressure on the powder every time. Nobody carried a ball starter in the period we are supposed to be imitating. They used their thumb. If you have a small caliber rifle and a small diameter ramrod and a tight patch run the ball down with short strokes. Leaving a lot of rod outside of the barrel for a hard push can break your rod and injure your hand and end your day of shooting.