ox-yoke wonder wads in canada

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Hello everybody,

I'm shooting C&B revolvers Ruger and Piettas in 45.
I'm searching ox-yoke patches in Canada and only found some at Rusty Wood. They are expensive and inconsistent in shipping, Do you know other places? I have been on Mastar, Shooter's choice etc web sites but they don't seem to have any stock. Is the best choice is TrackoftheWolf in USA?
Thanks for your help
 
Considering the price of Wonder Wads, a friend showed me a different approach.

I put the powder in the chamber add cornmeal to with-in an 1/8" of the chamber mouth and then load the ball.

The cornmeal is dispensed from a plastic squeeze bottle.

The plan is eventually to get another powder dispenser for the cornmeal.
 
I used to always use wads. I bought them from Shooter's Choice. Last time I ran out, I just quit using them. I shoot Remington pattern 44's and a Remington pattern 36. Literature says to use them. I seem to get by without. Does anyone know what was used originally? Did they use wads in the American civil war?

Kevin
 
kevinasch said:
I used to always use wads. I bought them from Shooter's Choice. Last time I ran out, I just quit using them. I shoot Remington pattern 44's and a Remington pattern 36. Literature says to use them. I seem to get by without. Does anyone know what was used originally? Did they use wads in the American civil war?

Kevin
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Just make sure you very liberally grease/seal every hole up after seating the ball. The wad is part of the insurance against chain firing...and believe me after witnessing a friend have a chain fire episode, I don't ever want to be close to another one...fire-sparks-lead and all sorts of $hit flying around all at the same time.

We though his was sufficiently greased up too but the cylinder gap must have allowed enough blow-by to clean the holes beside the fired chamber. 4 of 5 loaded chambers went off
 
With out wads or some sort of interference between the bullet and powder you may get a chain fire.

I had a 1860 .44 army I loaded with out a wad and the top 3 cylinder went off together.

To check I centered the 3 chambers still loaded and tried again, with the same result.

Neither I or the pistol suffered any harm and that was the only time and circumstances I had a chain fire with a cap and ball revolver.
 
I make my wads out of the flat portions of an egg carton. They are soaked in melted black power lube ,dried and punched out to the correct size.
 
I purchase my wads from The Possibles Shop south of the border. They come either lubed or not and you can get them in bags of 100, 500, or 1,000.
 
fingers284 said:
Just make sure you very liberally grease/seal every hole up after seating the ball. The wad is part of the insurance against chain firing...and believe me after witnessing a friend have a chain fire episode, I don't ever want to be close to another one...fire-sparks-lead and all sorts of $hit flying around all at the same time.

We though his was sufficiently greased up too but the cylinder gap must have allowed enough blow-by to clean the holes beside the fired chamber. 4 of 5 loaded chambers went off
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:bsFlag:I hear a lot about this "chain fire" and that "chain fire" never seen one...can someone actually show me just one case where definitively, the firing of one round caused ignited powder to somehow miraculously burrow its way past a tight ball to ignite the powder behind it!? I call H:S:

If a cap fell off a live cylinder, and a flash somehow (and again, miraculously) managed to find it's way over to that cylinder and down the nipple, all without jamming the cylinder...maybe...past a ball that was shaved off to fit the cylinder...f**k no!
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@Kevin and to support my position. I've never seen a canister for "wad cards" in a presentation box of revolvers, and they came with EVERYTHING required to maintain and fire the arm aside from powder. So no. In the 1860's wad cards weren't standard loading procedure.
 
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I had the same issue.....supply and cost to ship as none was found locally. I bought industrial white felt locally, in 1/8" and 1/4" thickness, made my own lube, soaked the sheets and punched out my own wads. Initial cost of felt was a little unexpected......about $50.00 for the amount I bought but I'll be able to make 1000's.
 
plinker 777 said:
:bsFlag:I hear a lot about this "chain fire" and that "chain fire" never seen one...can someone actually show me just one case where definitively, the firing of one round caused ignited powder to somehow miraculously burrow its way past a tight ball to ignite the powder behind it!? I call H:S:

If a cap fell off a live cylinder, and a flash somehow (and again, miraculously) managed to find it's way over to that cylinder and down the nipple, all without jamming the cylinder...maybe...past a ball that was shaved off to fit the cylinder...f**k no!
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@Kevin and to support my position. I've never seen a canister for "wad cards" in a presentation box of revolvers, and they came with EVERYTHING required to maintain and fire the arm aside from powder. So no. In the 1860's wad cards weren't standard loading procedure.
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Two assumptions you are making here that I don't agree with,
The first is your trying to tell me that every ball seater in every c&B gun made in all sorts of back-water factories all over the world absolutely lines up with every cylinder chamber so that the "cut ring" is absolutely evenly cut for the total circumference....if even one cuts a "moon sliver" from one side your "bull$hit claim" goes out the window.

The second assumption that I don't think hold water is that you are assuming that everybody's gun have exactly the same size cylinder bores, that every reamer from every C&B factory in the world is exactly the same and cuts bores that "shave" rings from every round ball made. Even if the bores were exact, there is not a chance in hell that every RB put in every pistol is "of a correct size"...every shooter that uses a different mold and a different lead alloy will have enough deviation in ball size that a "loose fit" is common.

All I know, seeing 4 rounds detonate all at the same time made a believer in me that "every notion that MIGHT have caused it will be given full consideration when Im around C & B from then onwards".
 
^:)...sounds more like someone who's shooting an unsafe firearm and is relying on band-aids to fix it? Either shooting undersized projectiles or worn out cylinders is dumb...relying on grease and or felt to mitigate this hazard is also dumb.

Do me a favour and just let me know you're about to try to fire your revolver if I'm shooting in the lane next to you ok? I'll gladly either come off the line or move to the far end away from you before you attempt.:rolleyes:
 
What happened to the old method of 'sealing' the front of each cylinder with lard or whatever after the ball is seated?

I used this method for all my c&b revolver shooting and never had an issue.

John
 
If you are concerned about chain fires look for a product called "bore butter". Its widely available and is like a grease applied over the ball. The residue when you fire also helps lubricate the cylinder making it easier to load.

On a side note holy cow some of you guys need to get a blowjob and chill out. This is supposed to be a friendly forum.
 
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