I guess some will say I am braggin' but I don't care. I'm no wood worker, and I had a need for a bullet starter for my new trapper pistol. All the bullet starters I saw were plastic and were not quite long enough to double as a ramrod for my pistol. SOOOOO.....I went to the local hobby lobby store and bought a few wooden balls for 59 cents each and a 7/16" dowel rod. Next thanks to the good folks here on THR I found out that a .45ACP spent cartridge would work nicely as a brass tip on the wooden dowel pieces. It cost me about 3 bucks for the stain and laquer ( I got plenty left over!) to finish the pieces. The beauty of this deal is that the one piece works for everything with the pistol.
I still use a longer ramrod for my Hawken rifle of course, but the starter works there too.
The largest ball only has the short starter on it. I had the parts and decided to make it that way for no particular reason.
Now I am open to suggestions for some sort of improvement I should make to it. I still consider them a prototype. I will probably look for some true hardwood to make the perfected model at some point in my life. So far it is still just a hobby I hope all of us enjoy.
I still use a longer ramrod for my Hawken rifle of course, but the starter works there too.
The largest ball only has the short starter on it. I had the parts and decided to make it that way for no particular reason.
Now I am open to suggestions for some sort of improvement I should make to it. I still consider them a prototype. I will probably look for some true hardwood to make the perfected model at some point in my life. So far it is still just a hobby I hope all of us enjoy.
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