| What have you used as a makeshift tamper? | |
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Max1a

Location : Glen Elder Registration date : 2008-05-12
 | Subject: What have you used as a makeshift tamper? Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:21 am | |
| Aside from the obvious index finger, I have used of all things: a AA battery, a large carrage bolt (big Winslow FH), and a tie bar. |
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ftrplt

Age : 71 Location : Split between Raleigh, NC and OKC, OK Registration date : 2007-12-15
 | Subject: Re: What have you used as a makeshift tamper? Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:48 am | |
| End of a big nail!!! FTRPLT |
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Oddball

Age : 34 Location : Lakewood, CO Registration date : 2008-03-10
 | Subject: Re: What have you used as a makeshift tamper? Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:55 am | |
| A whole slue of diffrent brass .357 to .338, out in the woods once I lost my nail and carved a stick to work. Some sort of tube from my girlfriends makeup (she is none the wiser). |
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JohnnyFlake

Age : 76 Location : Henderson, Nevada Registration date : 2008-02-06
 | Subject: Re: What have you used as a makeshift tamper? Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:34 am | |
| The larger 3" Golf Tees are my favorite, one end is a great tamper, and the other a nice pick to remove the ash and any unburnt tobacco. The best part is that they are super cheap, about $4.50 for a pack of 60 in my area, at Wally-Mart.
Large nails are okay, shell casings are good (.270, 30/30, .762 Nato, .223 and so on), and small / medium size Door Hinge Bolts are even better. A 3/8" wood doll-rod, cut in 3" lengths and sanded smooth at the ends, also works real well.
Johnny |
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Hermit

Age : 65 Location : Ascension Parish Registration date : 2008-04-22
 | Subject: Re: What have you used as a makeshift tamper? Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:01 am | |
| - Oddball wrote:
- A whole slue of diffrent brass .357 to .338, out in the woods once I lost my nail and carved a stick to work. Some sort of tube from my girlfriends makeup (she is none the wiser).
Don't use a live round by accident.  |
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Ol'Dawg

Age : 72 Location : Northeast Georgia Registration date : 2008-01-03
 | Subject: Re: What have you used as a makeshift tamper? Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:04 am | |
| For what ever it's worth, I use my well calloused right thumb for the initial tamp after the charring light followed by light tampings with my ring finger the majority of the time. Since I do a lot of hunting, fishing and walking where beavers are present, I sometimes use a beaver chewed stick for tamping especially when I've packed flake tobaccos a little too tight.
My "fancy" non-typical tampers include hand cut revolutionary war era nails, rifle (.45-70, 338-06) and pistol (.45 and .38 ) shell casings, and golf tees. Jim |
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Carlos Admin

Age : 60 Location : Chestnut, IL Registration date : 2007-12-10
 | Subject: Re: What have you used as a makeshift tamper? Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:21 am | |
| .45-70 GVT works real well. .45 Long colt is a little short, but it works. I usually have a tamper around. Hand-carved, wood, ivory, or deer antler. A few pipe nails. _________________  "Never turn your back on a Breen". |
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Mikem The Coordinator

Age : 62 Location : Glendale, Arizona Registration date : 2007-12-14
 | Subject: Re: What have you used as a makeshift tamper? Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:36 am | |
| I use the end of a Bic Roller Pen when a pipe nail/tool is not handy. I use my index finger if smoking a pipe while driving. Carlos, I shoot and reload 45-90 so I will have to give one of those shells a try.
Last edited by Mikem on Sun Jun 15, 2008 4:12 am; edited 2 times in total |
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PipeRanter

Age : 37 Location : where the mill sends me Registration date : 2008-06-01
 | Subject: Re: What have you used as a makeshift tamper? Sat Jun 14, 2008 12:31 am | |
| ive actualy used rocks.. here we have alot of flint rocks that ocasionaly ive found a few about 4 inches long and around 3/4s a inch wide. also I use a sight surveyors nail, Beer bottle opener a spark plug. |
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Tom Clemons

Age : 63 Location : Intersection of Great Black Swamp & Lake Erie, Ohio Registration date : 2007-12-25
 | Subject: Re: What have you used as a makeshift tamper? Sat Jun 14, 2008 8:18 pm | |
| I'm with Johnnyflake,
I pick up a 10-pack of 2.5 inch wooden golf tees. I look for the ones with the skinny shaft, as these will work adequately for a pick. I keep a few in numerous places I might smoke.
I have used the bottom of the round Imco lighters, a bic pen, a little golf pencil, a nail & a thin wooden dowel.
TC |
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LtMac

Age : 57 Location : Jackson, Tennessee Registration date : 2008-06-10
 | Subject: Re: What have you used as a makeshift tamper? Sun Jun 15, 2008 11:33 am | |
| I don't play golf, but once at an auto repair shop I picked up a free golf tee with advertising printed on the side. I use it sometimes as well as a finger or an ink pen.
LtMac |
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