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Herding Patches - Flash Pan Dan - 07-24-2015
I am hoping someone might be able to give me some ideas towards resolving an issue I am having. When I run patches down the bore, between shots, they tend to fly about the range especially on windy days. I am trying to figure out a way to collect the patches as they come out of the muzzle as best as I can. This is not so much of an issue when competing but it is when I go to my club and have to shoot from a bench or public range. The range master tends to look askance at me with all those patches fly around his neat clean range. I do my best to pick them all up but it is a task that my back starts to complain about quickly.
Any suggestions or tips would be most appreciated.
RE: Herding Patches - Don McDowell - 07-24-2015
Some folks put a pan of some sort on the ground just below the muzzle, so the patch falls off the jag and into the pan. Another option, mark your rod so the patch doesn't completely exit the muzzle, then pull it back and remove it from the jag at the breech end.
Pushing the patches thru on a bronze brush will bring them back to you at the breech also. (most of the time)
RE: Herding Patches - Flash Pan Dan - 07-27-2015
Thanks Don, I tried the pan under the muzzle but on windy days there is only a 50/50 chance the patches make it in to the pan. I don't know why I didn't think of just drawing the patch back to the breech. I will mark my rod.
RE: Herding Patches - Kurt - 07-27-2015
I see a lot of guys having a second leather strap low on their sticks so they lay the barrel on it and put the muzzle just inside or above the rim of the pan.
Kurt
RE: Herding Patches - Rick Mulhern - 07-28-2015
Mine? On the ground and the bushhog pretty well demolishes!!
RE: Herding Patches - Bluesmoke - 10-08-2015
(07-24-2015, 04:42 PM)Flash Pan Dan Wrote: I am hoping someone might be able to give me some ideas towards resolving an issue I am having. When I run patches down the bore, between shots, they tend to fly about the range especially on windy days. I am trying to figure out a way to collect the patches as they come out of the muzzle as best as I can. This is not so much of an issue when competing but it is when I go to my club and have to shoot from a bench or public range. The range master tends to look askance at me with all those patches fly around his neat clean range. I do my best to pick them all up but it is a task that my back starts to complain about quickly.
Any suggestions or tips would be most appreciated.
G day from Australia.I am new here.
I deal with used wiping patches this way:
A piece of wood with a sharpened wire embedded in it to skewer the used patches- It is like the wire frame used in offices for not losing receipts.
Perhaps a another wire close parallel to it and bent over the top of the spike wire so you don't accidentally skewer your hand.