bowl to vary the volume. English and American made tools are usually graduated in drams for powder and ounces for shot, whilst continental ones are usually in decigrammes for powder and grammes for shot.
What simplifies things is that once you have adjusted the measure for the weight of shot, it is customary to use the same volume setting for powder. Using my English measure, I have settled on a load of 1oz
QUIGLEY SHOOTING ASSOCIATION NEWS
Even though modern nitro game and target cartridges are still relatively cheap to purchase, the tools and components required to manufacture ammunition at home are still being made and are readily available from several retailers, of note are Henry Krank & Co at
Shotshell component parts
shot, this approximates to 28grams. At this setting the measure indicates a powder weight of 2½ drams, (74grains in common reloading parlance). This load should be more than adequate for CAS steel plate shooting.
So, using a cartridge filler tube, I take my primed case, pour in a measure of 2½drams of Swiss No 4, I then take a 3mm thick over-powder card wad and push this onto the powder, next comes a 13mm fibre cushioning wad, then a 3mm felt wad to prevent the shot embedding in the fibre. Next, using the same measure setting, I pour in 1oz of shot, (anything from No7s to No5s is good for knocking over steel plates) followed by a thin over-shot card wad. All that is left to do is to form the crimp to hold the components together. If, as I mentioned earlier, the case has not been previously cut to length, then that will be necessary before the crimping stage.
I made a simple gauge out of a piece of aluminium rod as pictured, which allows for an overlap of 3mm for crimping. The whole is now placed in the vintage cartridge closer and the roll crimp applied. I generally now mark the cartridge with an indelible pen to show it is charged with black powder.
Parker Hale cat 58 93 Typical hand tools
www.henrykrank.com and Clay & Game Reloaders at
www.claygame.co.uk . Also of interest is the extract from the Parker Hale catalogue showing vintage tools still available at least as late as 1958.
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