Months earlier I had tapered an appropriate size dowel to make some simple paper cartridges. They were OK but not great. Then I stumbled across other companies making equipment necessary and found that the female mold fitting the male taperd dowel was so beneficial and important. At the cheap price that the cartridge kit store was offering I found their simple equipment to be much much better than mine and with practice turning out decent cartridges. They weren’t wortks of beauty, but they are - after all - expendable, and they work. It it seems that they are casted by some company and I did find a casting seam on the male dowel that needed to be very lightly filed and scraped but again the tools were completely adequate. I would find that the male tapered dowel provided would be increased in usefulness for the 44 caliber if a light line were scribed at the appropriate height for loading ball and or for loading conical bullets But otherwise I have no complaints and would recommend this simple tool to aid in your black powder experience with cap and bal revolversl.
Ordered this and other things on 22 May
Charge to my credit card on 23 May
Email with tracking number on 29 May
Tracking number query still says awaiting item
Multiple emails to this company with no response and now 26 days in
I loaded by first batch with Pyrodex fired them from a Pietta replica of a Colt 1860. After watching the instructional video on making g cartridges, I found the kit easy to use. The cartridges were fun and easy to use at the range. I’m glad I bought this kit
Received kit with a damaged powder measure. No answers from the seller when contacted. Live and learn about dealers.
Creating paper cartridges using round balls is very 'fiddly' and not easy. I can see using conicals would be better,
but I don't like casing or shooting them. Too early to tell if I can get the round ball cartridges to work for me. Ask me again in a year.
Kit came in with all shown. The Powder Measure was broken and unusable. No response from seller after email.
I did not know it was 3D printed first.
Found the opening was to small for the bullet fit until I sanded it bigger.
Works great after that.
Prepare to have some spare papers but once I got it down I can craft 12 in an hour and a half. Great product, it is plastic not wood but not too disappointed I could have read more.
In my opinion it does not get hot enough. It is not designed for bullet lube temp. It is made to heat your coffee cup. I will go back to the kitchen stove with SPG lube and tuna fish can.
I have filled and emptied this several times since getting it, along with a combo kit. Great at the range or for storing cartridges as I make them. It is big enough that I can leave a spacer between different loads, like full power and target loads.
You sent me 4570 holder instead of a 44 caliber holder. What do I do to get my 44 caliber holder?
Love this kit. Have loaded several hundred .36 and .44 in a few days. Well, thought out punch as well. Smaller than most, so the glue ring is smaller.
Figeting to make cartridges perfect is challenging and hard. It's all new to me so working, balancing wax, and weight will take practice.
This is all new to me, after a little fidgeting everything just starts coming together piece by piece little by little and I'm happy.
Everything was included to be able to make really nice cartridges. Very complete.
Emailed multiple times to correct the shipping address, nobody ever responds, item was sent back.
Perhaps it is me but the diameter of the dowel is greater than the diameter of the barrel of my Diablo. It was easy to make a dozen paper shells but when I attempted to load them the diameter was too large. An attempted to insert a dowel in the barrel failed.
I'm very impressed with the kit .. simple to used .. takes small amount of room in my carry bag and that I like.
The .31 is little, hard to manipulate with fat old fingers. My gun is at the gunsmith, so haven't fired any yet. But I've fired a lot of .36 and some .44L they work great. Much easier to load. A great product!
The little device is quite handy to be used. It is manufactured by 3d-printing; injection molding would be nicer, but it does it's job the way it is. What I like about the cartrides it makes is the minimum amount of paper that is required in order to produce a good and solid cartride, leaving less paper residues inside the revolver compared to alternative cartride making approaches.