Well, I made some!
After going back through all the related posts made here since the forum started, I felt I had learned enough to give it a try. So I bought a jug of the "Specracide Stump Remover" from Lowe's and a pack of cigarette papers from one of the local convenience stores.
Getting the papers was almost tramatic!
Try to picture this old, long haired hippy type standing at the register of a crowded convenience store, discussing the relative merits of the different varieties of the "Joker" brand of rolling papers, all the while bemoaning the fact that they didn't have any of the tried and true ZigZag brand in stock. Add to that the fact that the young, and rather loud, clerk was apparently very, dare I say intimately, familiar with required qualities of the object of this discussion and I'm supprised we didn't get busted!
As if that weren't enough, Kathie, who is not known for being the trusting type where I'm concerned, saw the papers on the kitchen counter and is now convinced I'm smoking down in my man cave... Tobacco that is!
(Still trying to quit after 50 years...
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Be that as it may, after the chemical mixing, paper soaking and paper drying was done, I thought I'd see how combustible combustible was.
A touch of the match and the paper rapidly, flamelessly and very smokingly burned up to a fine black ash.
Okay, not quite what I'd expected. I sorta kinda thought the paper would disappear in more of a flash. You know, like the flash paper the numbers runners used back in the day... Y'all do remember that don't ya?
Or am I dateing myself again...
Anyway, having cut the papers in half before soaking them, I rolled them into a tube on an appropriately sized dowel, glued the long end, put some glue on one of the tip ends and stuck a ball in! Worked perfectly!
Now, when I'm ready to go shooting I'll charge the tube and seal the remaining tip end. I figure I can crease two sides and fold the end over on itself, glueing it down. I 'spose I could just twist the end but the folds would look better.
If the wx holds I may actually have a chance to try some this weekend!