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A long time ago, 1996 I think, I needed to get a powder trickler but there were no sporting goods stores in the area that carried them. So I made one out of film canisters, a piece of a 1713 aluminum arrow, and some heat glue, electric tape and some lead shot.

Pretty snazzy, huh?

That was a good idea.

Aries

Don't let him fool you, those aren't film canisters, he's using his outdoor coyote smoker, again..wink..

Come to think of it, smoked coyote sounds good, call me when it's ready Tex..

..t

The bottom film canister has lead shot in it to give the trickler some mass and the lid is glued shut. The bottoms of both canisters are hot glued together. I used a little elect tape just to keep them secure. I drilled two holes in the top canister the same diameter as the arrow, just slightly at an angle. The tube is a short piece of an arrow with a wood plug in one end, a small hole drilled in the side to allow powder to pass through. I used whatever Doo-dads I could find to slide on the arrow on both sides of the canister to keep the arrow in place.

As for smoked yote, Wildcatter, I peppered that yote last Friday morning with the 20 Gauge #3 buckshot at about 50 yards and I haven't seen him since.

Texas Sheepdawg wrote:The bottom film canister has lead shot in it to give the trickler some mass and the lid is glued shut. The bottoms of both canisters are hot glued together. I used a little elect tape just to keep them secure. I drilled two holes in the top canister the same diameter as the arrow, just slightly at an angle. The tube is a short piece of an arrow with a wood plug in one end, a small hole drilled in the side to allow powder to pass through. I used whatever Doo-dads I could find to slide on the arrow on both sides of the canister to keep the arrow in place.

As for smoked yote, Wildcatter, I peppered that yote last Friday morning with the 20 Gauge #3 buckshot at about 50 yards and I haven't seen him since.

Dang Dawg, Looks like in our younger leaner years, we both went to the same Engineering School: (Arkansas). I've still got that same trickler sitting on the shelf above my loading bench. Only diff. is mines' made out of a piece of electical conduit and an Easton aluminum arrow.

Also, That must have been the same Texas 'yote I saw on the TV news last night. Said a Cop radar recorded him at 186mph still going North with his tail tucked between his legs just outside the city limits of Boulder, Colorado!

Dang Dawg, Looks like in our younger leaner years, we both went to the same Engineering School: (Arkansas). I've still got that same trickler sitting on the shelf above my loading bench. Only diff. is mines' made out of a piece of electical conduit and an Easton aluminum arrow.

Ya missed, but not by much. Louisiana, Tennessee, and Texas.