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[Delmonico]

Neeever tried it, but I've heeered that a fella can chop up that new-fangled movin' picture film, the sell-you-loyd kind and use in 'stead a that nitro powder stuff.  Ya can also reload yer primers with the white stuff off'n the tip a yer strike anywhere lucifers, but ya need ta use dem Berdan type primers.

[J.D.Cayhill]

Thanks for the Hepurn info pards. Could be something else for the "Must Have" list.

[Uncle Eph]

IMHO side flushers (hepburns) are the finest single shot ever designed and for years they were one of the cheapest to buy; those days are long gone, but you can still find wonderful deals on them when compared to same condition 1885s.

I am not includeing RBs or 74 Sharps in that statement because in my mind they are "early" designs and in a class all thier own.

Del, many years ago I tried loading a 45-70 case with the scrapings from wooden matches and I used a regular primer to fire it in a navy arms RB locked in a vise with a string tied around the trigger and me about 40 feet behind it squatting close to the ground pulling the string.  The dang thing worked but talk about a mess to clean.

I still think we need a place here or on TFS to talk about single shots

[Hemlock Mike]

You have to use that OLD movie film.  It was made of nitrocellulose (single base).  Take the anvil out of the old primer, make a paste of the match heads and reassemble.  Might work in a pinch but a mite corrosive 

Mike

[Delmonico]

Thats what I meant by sell-you-loyd film, read that in some stuff I was readin' on the Kyber Pas region and the gunmakers up in there.  The Berdan is said to work better cause the anvil is in the case and don't have to be removed and re-installed.  The wet mix of match head compound is said to have been used by some of the native Americans on the big rimfire cases, but I ain't be able to conferm this yet.

Heck if we got some acetone and deesolved the film and made some home-made nitro glycerine wre could run it through my pasta machine with the spagetti roller and whack it off in about 1/8 sections and send it to Tensleep and he could have double base powder.   Heck we could relable a cocoa can and put it in there.  Delmonico Powder Company call it X-15 powder, cause Tensleeps gun would blow up faster than the speed of sound.