Cartridge packages

[markj]

Re: No Cartridges Unlimited

Hi Lane,

I found this info on the 10th Texas site; however, I can't vouch for it:

Tom Watson
Cartridges Unlimited
[Authentic Cartridges]
Excellent Copies
217 Everest Dr.
Fenton, MO 63116
636-349-0460

Good luck!

Mark Jaeger

[Missouri Mule]

Re: No Cartridges Unlimited

Contact me off line (via email) and I'll get you his info. He's recently moved. I'd give it to you now but I'm at work and I don't have it available at this moment.

email: makihan@nothnbut.net

[MarionRifles]

Re: No Cartridges Unlimited

Mr.Watson can be reached at 314-352-0871,but try to call him around 10 am Missouri time when he opens for business.He gets a lot of phone orders!

[Corporal Jay]

Re: No Cartridges Unlimited

I will see him next weekend so I will let him know that he is a wanted man and I will verify his info.

[Jonah Barleycorn]

Re: Updated Info on Cartridges Unlimited

Sirs,

The Current contact info for Mike Watson and Cartridges Unlimited is:


Mike Watson
Cartridges Unlimited
4656 Newport
St. Louis, MO 63116
314-352-0871

Regards, etc., etc.


Bully,

[Skeet]

Re: No Cartridges Unlimited

What we do in my unit is make are own. We have the pattern and the paper. We also made up the dowel rods. Now, this is a timely process! We also have the stampings for the bundles, too. Cpl Dan Morgan, 10th VA (IVR)

[3rdARboy]

Re: No Cartridges Unlimited

Skeet, could you get me the pattern for the tubes somehow maybe e-mail? What paper do you use and how do you make the dowel rods?
Lane Reeder
Co. E, 3rd Arkansas Infantry
Texas Brigade

[Bill Cross]

Columbia Rifles Research Compendium

We have the pattern and the paper. We also made up the dowel rods.

No offense, but to be sure of the proper dimensions, etc. there's not better resource than The Columbia Rifles Research Compendium, including instructions for making rolling tubes and arsenal packs. It should be noted, too, that for Federal packs, evidence seems to indicate that only the St. Louis Armory continued the practice of marking them after the Early War period, or at least this is what the references I have seen indicate, despite the many reproduction labels available including from Mr. Watson.

[DukeRPSC]

Re: Muzzle Blasts

Muzzle Blasts, Official Publication of the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association, Vol. 64-No. 2 October 2002 Page 65 "The Enfield Rifle Musket and its Complex Paper Cartridge"
The above article details recreating the Enfield cartridge in painstaking detail. I have made some myself. Given the time involved, I'm not entirely sure I can bring myself to fire them. :cry_smile

http://www.nmlra.org/

Hope this helps.

[27VA]

Cartridge packages

Greetings,

Any suggestions about how to pack and wrap .58-cal ammunition in the "packs of ten"? Also is there a site to down load some authentic labels.
EOG (confed) has a great picture of an original on page 39, which I am going to use for guideline. I think the caps are also wrapped in the package too? Is that hemp twine? White wrapper?
Need to make these up for RECON, any others who are going have any suggestions?



S. Stern
27VA
ssterndo@netscape.net

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[markmason]

Re: Cartridge packages

Greetings,

Any suggestions about how to pack and wrap .58-cal ammunition in the "packs of ten"? Also is there a site to down load some authentic labels.
EOG (confed) has a great picture of an original on page 39, which I am going to use for guideline. I think the caps are also wrapped in the package too? Is that hemp twine? White wrapper?
Need to make these up for RECON, any others who are going have any suggestions?

S. Stern
27VA
ssterndo@netscape.net

I suggest to you geting a copy of the Columbia Rifles Research Compendium A very good article on the subject of making and bundling cartridges. Contact the Columbia Rifles for a copy. I believe Joe Hoffman of Jersey Skillet Licker may have a copy as well.

[Jefferson Guards]

Re: Cartridge packages

This might have some of the information that you seek:

http://www.authentic-campaigner.com/...tridge+bundles

[GaReb52nd]

Re: Cartridge packages

27thVa,

I sent you an email with labels I have made using Word and the directions on how to make the wrappers. Hope it helps.

[27VA]

Re: Cartridge packages

Thanks for the assistance

S. Stern
27VA

[Jimmayo]

Re: Cartridge packages

Have a picture of a torn open pack of cartridges in a tin on the following page. It is at the bottom. May be some help.

http://www.angelfire.com/ma4/j_mayo/relics.html