Plugging Your Cartridges Flashhole?
I'm searching for a better way of keeping the powder from draining out of the flash holes in loaded Smith cartridges.
I have been buying self-sticking dots for marking file folders at an office supply store, then placing one over the end of each cartridge before charging them with powder. At the range, I usually scrape off the dot while loading, which takes time, but I have seen other folks piercing the dot with a needle in the loading area then shooting right through the puncture.
I've also tried taking the hole punch to a pack of cigarette papers, then dropping a paper dot in the bottom of each cartridge. I'm now shooting black plastic, reduced charge cartridges in my Smith, but I've lined all the flash holes with brass grommets and don't know if the paper dots would lay flat anymore.
If anyone has a better, easier or faster way of doing this, I’d appreciate hearing about it.
Gary Van Kauwenbergh
Co G, 114th ILL Vol Inf
# 10143
"Alle Kunst ist umsonst Wenn ein Engel in das Zündloch prunst."
(In vain the skill and arts of man, When an angel pisses the priming pan.)
Field Marshal Gebhard L. von Blücher
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