Load from Flask?

[Legionnaire]

I throw my powder from a Lyman #55 powder thrower directly into plastic vials before going to the range.

Bonza, what kind of vials do you use? Source? Fifty for each gun is a lot of vials!

 

[Mike OTDP]

50 is about right. I've used several charge tubes. The sample tubes used by the medical field work well. And I've had excellent results for small charges with the empty Speer shot capsules.

 

[SELFDEFENSE]

From a separate brass measure so if I get a detonation it will be 50 grains rather than a 1/2 pound bang

 

[Busyhands94]

i pour mine from my homemade powder horn, into a homemade antler powder measure, then into the muzzle of the rifle i built.

 

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This is what I use for my pistol shooting. They are very hard plastic, almost
like glass. Bought from Amazon 100 for 10.00. They will hold about 20 grs.
You can get bigger ones for more powder. What you see here is 16 grs.

 

[madcratebuilder]

It depends on the BP Firearm and what I am trying to accomplish ... figuring a charge for accuracy, plinking, Hunting , with a Revolver,, in the field or at a bench, a rifle , a Shotgun... ?

Revolvers in the field or at the bench I load from a measured spout on a flask... calculating a load for a particular I'd use a incremented volumetric measurer. Rifles a powder horn and a predetermined measurer ... a Zouave .58 Cal Rifled Musket I use a Zouave Flask with a 60gr spout...or Paper/linen Cartridges.
That's how I do it, I'm not tellin' a single other soul how they should do it... but it's been workin' well for me for 30 years with no hand grenade Flasks...
Hope that's what you were lookin' for.

This same method since 72 or so.

 

[GCBurner]

I use a measured spout on my revolver, and a separate adjustable powder measure on the long guns and single shot pistols. I keep the powder flask well away from the firing line, in my shooting bag, when I'm actually firing.
We've had one powder flask KABOOM in the past 15 years at my range. It was a guy shootiing a flintlock, who kept the small flask for his priming powder in his front shirt pocket. He had the kind of spout that releases the powder when it's pressed down, and evidently had a bit of blackpowder built up in his pocket from dropping the flask in between shots. A spark from the flintlock dropped in the pocket, firing the loose powder, which set off the ounce or so of FFFFg powder left in the flask. No fatal injury, but his chest and face were badly burned from the flash.

 

[bonza]

"what kind of vials do you use? Source? Fifty for each gun is a lot of vials!"

I bought them from a medical supply company online, don't recall the name but there's a bunch of them out there. I don't have fifty for each of my guns, but I don't take all my guns to the range at the same time! I might take a couple of guns to the range & will usually take fifty for each.....shooting thirteen rounds per target, plus a fouling shot, (MLAIC rules) that's only three targets worth of vials.

 

[Jaymo]

I load straight from the horn into the hot barrel, while smoking a Camel with my face directly over the muzzle. J/K

I load directly from measured spout on a flask into cold cylinders for my revolvers, before firing them.
After shooting them, I load the cylinders from measured spout on flask, into a powder measure, and then into the cyl.
I load my muzzleloaders from the horn to a powder measure, or from a measured spout on a flask, into a powder measure, and then into the barre.

Sometimes, though, i just use paper cartridges.

I have no desire to get burned, maimed, or killed.

If you've ever had a faulty propane grill go napalm in your face, you won't be in any hurry to get face-burnt again.

 

[45-70 Ranger]

Been shooting BP weapons since 1964. Have always loaded revolvers with a flask. My ML rifles I use a measure, but not out of fear of blowing myself up, but for a precise measurement of the load. (I wipe out the bore between shots by the way since I'm not going to war with a ML rifle and have no need to shoot fast!)

So, in the time it takes me to fire my pistol. Walk to the target and study it. Walk back to the line. Have a smoke and think about the next string. Well over six to eight minutes have passed. If there's an ember in a wheelgun's chamber, after that amount of time it's long been turned cold. I take my time and enjoy the whole time I'm shooting and working up loads for my weapons. The safety that evolves from this time is just one of the benefits of going slowly.

Wade

 

[Jaymo]

I currently couldn't load my muzzleloaders quickly if I had to. I load from a measure mainly because it ensures consistent charges.

 

[treadhead1952]

Pour powder charge into measure from flask, pour charge into cylinder or down rifle or shotgun barrel from measure. That was how I was taught to do it by my old gunsmith back home in Arkansas. He claimed more consistent results down range as well as the safety factor.

I am considering paper cartridges at the moment for my cap and ball revolvers as I am getting into conical bullets for them. The trick there is to use Potassium Nitrate to soak the paper first to ensure complete combustion so you don't have a burning ember left in the cylinder from a previous shot.

 

[Noz]

Shoot 10 rounds from 2 pistols, holster, ten rifle rounds, 4 shotgun rounds, move to unloading table show shotgun empty, show rifle empty, show pistol nipples to be free of caps, gather empty cases, walk to gun cart, put emptys away, refill rifle ammunition carrier, refill shotgun belt, remove possible bag from cart, place first pistol in stand to load--don't see how it would be possible for a burning fragment of anything to remain in a chamber for that long.
I load with a flask directly into my pistol chambers.
My 50 cal muzzleloader? I use a measure.

 

[Busyhands94]

i like paper cartridges!