Craziest thing you've used for a tamper?

[adam12]

In a pinch, have you ever used:
- a stick

- your thumb (ouch)

- the end of a ball point pen

- the sharp end of a knife in a circle
Or my all time favorite:
- a golf tee

 

[lifeon2]

Various pieces of brass from my reloading bench.

 

[jameral]

@ lifeon2...Careful you don't grab a loaded round! 8O

 

[schmitzbitz]

Use my thumb (well, actually a finger) all the time, I don't like fiddling with a tool when I'm behind the wheel. As for the golf-tee, well, it's only natural that I'll reach for it while on the course; I don't like crap in my pockets on the links, while there is always a tee tucked behind my ear. All said, I might use an actual tamper about 40% of the time, actually.

 

[buckeye]

A branch when i was out hunting.

 

[adam12]

@ lifeon2...Careful you don't grab a loaded round!

That's what I call living on the edge...

 

[bryanhayn]

Girlfriend's finger. I snap, she tamps.

 

[jaysin]

Like lifeon a 45 brass

 

[gwynclan]

Piece of 3/8 copper tube from my work bench. Now that I think of it that worked quite well. I have also used the ends of some of my tools like channel locks or pliers.

pretty much if its not flammable and fits in the bowl I use it. :rofl:

 

[tokerpipes]

Roofing nail...think it had a little tar on it too.

 

[deithial]

Toenail clippers, to tamp & to poke the bowl with the file.

 

[uberam3rica]

A battery. It was the only thing lying around that would work

 

[pipeinhand]

Piece of broken bottle bottom.

 

[sorringowl]

My thumb. Once.
A paper clip (just stretch out one end for the poker end and bend the curved part of the other end for a tamper--works pretty good).

 

[thebadkitty]

A spent 7.62 shell with a pointed projectile pressed back on. Someone saw me using it once time and told me to 'be careful with that!'. I told him I don't tamp that hard. Ya shoulda seen the look on his face.

 

[johnd]

A 45-70 rifle cartridge case, empty of course. Nice and long; and a rimmed cartridge makes a fine tamper.

 

[simnettpratt]

Just my finger every once in a while. Don't have any spent brass, all mine's live, but I don't reload (yet) either.

 

[sergemoat]

A brake shoe hold down pin.

 

[biloxi123]

A pushpin

 

[irish2fish]

A spent 7.62 shell with a pointed projectile pressed back on. Someone saw me using it once time and told me to 'be careful with that!'. I told him I don't tamp that hard. Ya shoulda seen the look on his face. []

:rofl:

My finger more often than not.