Great info! Question: Anyone out there in UK (or anywhere else for that matter) use a rolaball boilie making table to make your own clay ammo? I have ordered one because I am convinced it will work with clay. Hope so, or I will be making a lot of fish bait! Update 5/1/22: Well, it's official: I am now making my own 12 mm ammo out of the red clay dirt of western NC. My long awaited boilie rolling table arrived and it works well. For anyone interested, this is the process in a nutshell: -Two shovel s of red clay dirt into a five gallon bucket. -Fill the bucket with water and stir it like crazy. you want muddy water. -Strain the water through a kitchen mesh strainer into another bucket. -Let it sit for half an hour and pour it into an old pillow case. When you start getting actual mud going into the pillow case, stop pouring and give what is left in the bucket back to the earth. -Hang the pillow case for 24 hours. The hard part is now over. The big blob in the pillow case is what you make the ammo out of. (or an ash tray if you are so inclined) -Once the clay is just dry enough to crack around the edges when you work it, put it into an old caulking gun and extrude a 9.6 mm thick 'sausage' onto the boilie table across the grooves. 9.6 mm. No bigger, no smaller. Cut the nozzle to that size. It's important. -Roll 'em up five or six times (the fun part) - Repeat, repeat repeat. -Cull out the rejects as you go, (there will be some) and let the rest harden over night. There they are... 12 mm clay balls as good or better than any you can buy. Whodathunk? Big shout out to Gardner company in the UK. That little plastic rolling table is outstanding! Your US market is clay balls, and maybe candy balls, not carp bait. Just in case you are interested.
@@SLINGSHOTFEVERpullshootrepeat I will. I have cut open a couple of the clay balls you get on Amazon trying to 'reverse engineer' the process to make them, and that has to be it. Either that, or one of those double roller motorized boilie machines. I am surrounded by NC red clay, which if rolled by hand makes great sun-dried ammo. But rolling by hand takes a while and doesn't give you the nice consistent spheres. They may be quick-and-dirty fired in one of those microwave kilns, but that is a different 'reverse engineer' altogether. Right now I dry my red clay ammo in an old food dehydrator, and spray them with furniture polish to make them a little water resistant. Whatever the process is it has to be cheap, fast, and small, and I am determined to shamelessly steal it. Hehe!
@@SLINGSHOTFEVERpullshootrepeat Well, that is encouraging. The little tables made by Gaedner in the UK make from six to 24 balls simultaneously with two or three swipes of the table. But mysteriously not a word about using it to make clay balls on the internet. If you have the time look up check out the below youtube and tell me if you can think of any reason it won't work. th-cam.com/video/ePdGHQz3lgU/w-d-xo.html
I make and sell bands so; I keep a full selection so I can test various latex, tapers, and ammo combos so that people get the best performance they can from the bands I provide.
Which ammo cay make pigeons fall with body short...? So that It cannot fly away and get injured...as sometimes we can not accurately aim wings and head neck..
Which ammo cay make pigeons fall with body short...? So that It cannot fly away and get injured...as sometimes we can not accurately aim wings and head neck..
You will more than likely need two different bands due to the weight difference in the ammo. I like a taper of 15mm-20mm. For the 3/8" I use .7mm thick latex. For the 5/16" or 8mm ammo I use .6mm or .5mm depending on the season.
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Glad you pulled out the lead, I was deciding on what size Lee buckshot mold to buy to repurpose my used pellets
Happy to help!
Great info! Question: Anyone out there in UK (or anywhere else for that matter) use a rolaball boilie making table to make your own clay ammo? I have ordered one because I am convinced it will work with clay. Hope so, or I will be making a lot of fish bait!
Update 5/1/22: Well, it's official: I am now making my own 12 mm ammo out of the red clay dirt of western NC. My long awaited boilie rolling table arrived and it works well. For anyone interested, this is the process in a nutshell:
-Two shovel s of red clay dirt into a five gallon bucket.
-Fill the bucket with water and stir it like crazy. you want muddy water.
-Strain the water through a kitchen mesh strainer into another bucket.
-Let it sit for half an hour and pour it into an old pillow case. When you start getting actual mud going into the pillow case, stop pouring and give what is left in the bucket back to the earth.
-Hang the pillow case for 24 hours. The hard part is now over. The big blob in the pillow case is what you make the ammo out of. (or an ash tray if you are so inclined)
-Once the clay is just dry enough to crack around the edges when you work it, put it into an old caulking gun and extrude a 9.6 mm thick 'sausage' onto the boilie table across the grooves. 9.6 mm. No bigger, no smaller. Cut the nozzle to that size. It's important.
-Roll 'em up five or six times (the fun part)
- Repeat, repeat repeat.
-Cull out the rejects as you go, (there will be some) and let the rest harden over night.
There they are... 12 mm clay balls as good or better than any you can buy. Whodathunk? Big shout out to Gardner company in the UK. That little plastic rolling table is outstanding! Your US market is clay balls, and maybe candy balls, not carp bait. Just in case you are interested.
Thanks. I have never made clay ammo with one but seems it should work. Please, let us all know how it goes.
@@SLINGSHOTFEVERpullshootrepeat I will. I have cut open a couple of the clay balls you get on Amazon trying to 'reverse engineer' the process to make them, and that has to be it. Either that, or one of those double roller motorized boilie machines. I am surrounded by NC red clay, which if rolled by hand makes great sun-dried ammo. But rolling by hand takes a while and doesn't give you the nice consistent spheres. They may be quick-and-dirty fired in one of those microwave kilns, but that is a different 'reverse engineer' altogether. Right now I dry my red clay ammo in an old food dehydrator, and spray them with furniture polish to make them a little water resistant. Whatever the process is it has to be cheap, fast, and small, and I am determined to shamelessly steal it. Hehe!
@@johnswoodgadgets9819 Sounds good but the time is an issue by hand for sure. I have seen some guys use bamboo or pvc pipe cut in half lengthwise.
@@SLINGSHOTFEVERpullshootrepeat Well, that is encouraging. The little tables made by Gaedner in the UK make from six to 24 balls simultaneously with two or three swipes of the table. But mysteriously not a word about using it to make clay balls on the internet. If you have the time look up check out the below youtube and tell me if you can think of any reason it won't work.
th-cam.com/video/ePdGHQz3lgU/w-d-xo.html
@@johnswoodgadgets9819 hech yeah man!
Great informational video! I hadn’t heard of the rubber ammo before. I’m excited to try it out sometime!
I love the rubber ammo for indoors fun
You've got a lot to choose from. I always find changing ammunition a bit difficult (different trajectory) and stick with my 10mm steel balls.
I make and sell bands so; I keep a full selection so I can test various latex, tapers, and ammo combos so that people get the best performance they can from the bands I provide.
Super cool and helpful video 🤘
Thank you, glad it was helpful for you.
I like to use Tic Tacs as they just shatter and explode when hit a wall !
Great idea!
Great video! What taper would you recommend for 5/16 with .5 simpleshot?
I use a 12mm-15mm for the 5/16".
@@SLINGSHOTFEVERpullshootrepeat sweet thanks! I was probably over doin it with 20mm-10mm.
Really informative. Can't use lead ammo where I am so been learning with 11mm steel.
I do lots of hunting with 9.5mm steel as well.
@@SLINGSHOTFEVERpullshootrepeat I plan to experiment with diffrent sizes when I get better. For now it's focusing on learning and accuracy for me
Nice presentation mate. I use 3/8 myself but like 8mm too. Keen on getting some clay just for fun factor.
3/8 inch which is 9.5mm is what I shoot the most for hunting...but nothing beats the price of steel bbs!
Which ammo cay make pigeons fall with body short...? So that It cannot fly away and get injured...as sometimes we can not accurately aim wings and head neck..
Which ammo cay make pigeons fall with body short...? So that It cannot fly away and get injured...as sometimes we can not accurately aim wings and head neck..
@Renzo0066 thankbu so much for your rply
@Renzo0066 and what band setup and how much width( in mm) and thinkness
I would use 3/8" Steel Ammo or 7/16" Steel Ammo.
What band would you use for 8mm and 3/8 steel?
You will more than likely need two different bands due to the weight difference in the ammo. I like a taper of 15mm-20mm. For the 3/8" I use .7mm thick latex. For the 5/16" or 8mm ammo I use .6mm or .5mm depending on the season.
@@SLINGSHOTFEVERpullshootrepeat Thank you, very helpful. I will try it now😆
lol hand hits sure do hurt holy heck talk about throbbing pain (clay)
Oh, you know it!
good job
Thank you!
What bands would you use for 6mm bbs?
I use a .4 at a 12-8 taper or a 10-8 taper depending on the latex brand's retraction speed.
@@SLINGSHOTFEVERpullshootrepeat cool, I went for .5 with 9-5mm taper they sting like a bitch at 1/2 draw lol
@@the-catty-cult bet they do!