A Use For Your Cracked 30-30 Shells

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JimT
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A Use For Your Cracked 30-30 Shells

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Use them for powder charges in your percussion guns.
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Using Triple 7 in the 1851 Navy .36
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Cracked 30-30 cases and rubber erasers
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Weighing powder charges
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Dumping the charge into the 30-30 case
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Capping it with the rubber eraser
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Ready for the Range ..

Makes loading loose powder and ball much easier and faster using the pre-weighed charges. If you use a capping tool it speeds things up even more.
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Not a BP shooter but that's a pretty cool idea. I love using things made for one use on another and using something no longer useful for it's intended purpose on something else . . . brilliant!
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My Dad used this method for his original 1858 Remingtons back in the 1950's. The 30-30 case will hold about 40 gr. of FFFg black powder. Dad would make up 30-30 cases with powder in them and carry them in his pocket for reloads when he was hunting.
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That's a cool idea Jim, I used to all sorts of plastic or glass containers but they either held to much or not enough and certainly didn't look right in my possibles bag :lol:
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Oh that is just BRILLIANT Jim!

I'll have to add getting some pencil erasers to the shopping list! :D
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Great idea.
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I use a 458 Lott case to charge my 58 caliber rifle. 110 grains BP
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