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coopieclan
01-20-2011, 12:59 PM
The muzzle loading hobby has natural insect by products.
I don't have any wasps in my area.

I wanted to use a different over ball wad in my little brass gun (Snake Eyes Derringer).
The original suggestion for this gun is newspaper and it works fine.

BUT I have tried packing peanuts made of starch and they work O.K too.

Not the ones made of styrofoam but made of starch.

This is how you tell:
Get peanuts from a cardboard box.
They should be gray or white.
Examine them, if they are just an extruded tube shape try dropping a little water on one.
Starch packing peanuts will melt with water.

The stuff compresses well it held balls in my gun for a while.
Even when bouncing around, putting away.
It did not affect my shot as far as I could tell.
It practically disappears, I saw no flames, nothing.


What do you guys think of Starch Packing Peanuts

I use wonderwads over my powder and I see chunks of them flying whenever I shoot. I got a half a wonderwad stuck in my target once (a little low and to the right)

I have a substitute for bee's wax.
I have tried it over the ball in my BP revolver.

Candy Wax Lips

Coopieclan

redneckdan
01-20-2011, 01:18 PM
I will have to remember to save the wasp nest next winter. At the ski hill we have problems with wasps building nests in the 480V power boxes used to supply snow guns. I probably threw out enough to cram full 3 or 4 flat rate boxes.

coopieclan
01-20-2011, 01:37 PM
RedNeckDan,
You should sell the stuff.
Squirrell shooters sell the tail to Mepps for fishing lures.

CoopieClan