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Post by Iche Iia on Sept 21, 2010 12:34:09 GMT -7
I'm not real sure if this question should go here or not but here goes anyway.
I want to make a powder measure and on another thread "cane" was brought up as one thing to make it out of. My question is would that have been PC for a mountaineer? Sho-nuff would be easy enough.
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Post by Rod on Sept 21, 2010 13:05:53 GMT -7
Cane would work, especially if you're from an area that it grows in--would have been fabricated back east and carried west. Seems like there's all sorts of measures or chargers--deer antler, alligator teeth, cane, wood, etc. One can even be pretty accurate just palming the powder in the bare hand. From what I've read, gunsmiths would include a charger with a rifle they'd made---usually little rolled tin measures. There was an article about them some time ago in a Museum of the Fur Trade Quarterly. I made mine up like that, but lacking tin at the time, I used sheet copper. Really simple to make, just solder together.
Rod
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Post by Iche Iia on Sept 22, 2010 17:01:24 GMT -7
I’m not sure if I can describe accurately enough what I saw today to get a good opinion from any of you as to what it is.
I was previewing an estate auction and found a powder measurer that, at first glance, looked like the standard brass measurer that we can get for about 10 bucks at any black powder shop. You know the kind, a brass tube with an adjustable slide rod at the bottom and a funnel top that you slide over the tube when it’s filled to pour into the muzzle.
This one was like that but was considerable heavier, visibly made from heavier brass material, the adjustable slide was round instead of square and the upper part of the tube had about 1 inch of knurling around the top.
I don’t think this was an earth shaking find but I have not seen one like it before. Have you?
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Post by Julius on Sept 23, 2010 7:16:58 GMT -7
What you have is an older American made powder measure from the 70's or 80's. I have two of them and still use them. I recently bought the other kind that you are used to. The light one with the squre rod and locking screw. Man what a piece of junk thay this is. Then I saw it, made in china. Waht a piece of crap.
Pick up that older one you found at the estate sale.
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Post by Iche Iia on Sept 23, 2010 15:40:08 GMT -7
Thanks Julius. The dang thing is in a lot with modern gun holsters and a rifle scope. Bidding seems to be going pretty high because of the scope. It's a online auction and will not close until Wed morning but I'm going to try to get a message to the winner to let him know that I will let him recoup some of his money from me for the measurer. I'd really like to have it.
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