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[crashthegrey]

I must have missed the news that you're making pipes. I need to check those out!

Just doing my best to carry on a 174 year legacy.

 

[Peterson314]

I think that the first time you codger scoop, you lose the ability to remember why loading a pipe was hard. It definitely fixes a lot of problems.

For me, Plum Pudding, White Knight, and Second Breakfast were three tobaccos whose smoking mechanics really stood out. The first time I smoked Plum Pudding, I was particularly impressed. It seemed to hold an ember forever.

 

[Brad H]

The “Mush and Squinch”.

If someone gets the reference lemme know.

 

[Ahi Ka]

I never imagined I would be a codger scoop sort, but it just works so well. Literally almost any tobacco is simple that way.

I predominantly smoke stuff which comes with a bit of prep before hand. However while travelling I have just been smoking out of pouches/zip lock bags. It’s the first time my young boys have seen me load pipes with a codger scoop and they think it looks way cooler.

 

[krizzose]

Anything cube cut is as easy as it gets. A close second is folding and stuffing a sufficiently dry continental flake. I usually cube cut McClelland and Gawith flakes, while C&D-manufactured flakes just tend to fall apart naturally into a ready rubbed consistency. In which case, that’s almost as easy as cube cut, just have to tamp it down a bit.

 

[InWithBothFeet]

Apparently I'm not the only one chopping their tobacco up so it gravity fills better.

 

[tirefire]

Best blends for codger scooping in my smoking den are Peretti's Park Square and Blend DD. Most of the other blends are flakes that get rubbed out and gravity fed.

 

[Pipesandbourbon]

Briar fox
Kajun kake
Montgomery

 

[hoipolloiglasgow]

I’ll say that I almost always have a perfectly packed bowl of Quiet Nights when I smoke it. It crumbles into the perfect consistency and is at perfect moisture level. There are a few other Latakia flakes that are like that as well.

 

[Epip Oc'Cabot]

I was enjoying a pipe full of possibly 1950's Brown and Williamson Sir Walter Raleigh made in Louisville, Kentucky that I managed to get about 5 years ago from some people who bought property and in one of the sheds, on a stud was a tub of unopened Sir Walter Raleigh. I offered them a reasonable price for the tub and have sparingly enjoyed it. It was such a great tobacco that all you had to do was scoop out a bowl full, press gently on the top, light it and set back and enjoy the flavor. Seldom if ever do you have to relight. This is one of the luxuries of the old codger blends. So just for conversation sake, I was wondering what pipe blends pack similar for you. I still have about a quarter of the tub left and I hate the thoughts of finishing it because the new Sir Walter Raleigh is a major disappointment.

I was very pleased to see your story. When I saw the title, I thought it was going to mainly be a question of what we found packed well, and my answer was going to be old school SWR non-aromatic, cube cut. It was nice to see you already agree!

 

[VDL_Piper]

PS Cube Cut is my codger style scoop but you won't get the burn like you do with SWR

 

[ron123]

A fine shag cut works best, or easiest, for me. I've got some (current production) Balkan Sobranie open right now, and that is about as goof-proof a cut as it gets for me. For blends much coarser cut than that, like flakes or coins, I typically put in a hand "spice" grinder for a few twists.

 

[didimauw]

Carter Hall was my first blend that helped me realize smoking a pipe could actually be done. It packed and smoked so carelessly. That's what I wanted in life.

Now I dry all of my tobaccos well ahead of packing. So it all just falls right into the pipe now. No fuss.

 

[WVOldFart]

Carter Hall was my first blend that helped me realize smoking a pipe could actually be done. It packed and smoked so carelessly. That's what I wanted in life.

Now I dry all of my tobaccos well ahead of packing. So it all just falls right into the pipe now. No fuss.

Did you ever order any Milan "our" Carter Hall/ Their Prince Albert is what I smoke every morning. It is better than the original.

 

[didimauw]

Did you ever order any Milan "our" Carter Hall/ Their Prince Albert is what I smoke every morning. It is better than the original.

No i haven't tried that one yet. Just about all the rest tho! I'll take a look!

 

[Arkansas Paul]

Folded and stuffed European flakes are generally easy, with the exception of S. Gawith's fine products which might need an entire box of matches. For the charring light.

They annoy the hell out of me. But they're soooooo worth it. lol

For the OP, I find a well done ribbon cut packs the easiest for me, though after a decade of smoking a pipe none of them give me much trouble any more. I don't even think about it or do any particular method. I just stuff tobacco in the pipe until I have the desired resistance and it smokes well. It took a while to get to that point though.
I find the Peterson ribbons like Elizabethan and Royal Yacht are particularly easy to work with.