Here's the loading rod for doves, skeet, trap, etc. that I devised many years go. Necessity is the mother of invention, they say. I needed a good, strong, handy loading rod that was easy on the palm, so I scrounged up an old solid brass doorknob, chose one of my 1/2" hickory ramrod blanks, and put them together, with a threaded brass insert on the other end that will accept a 16 ga. jag for cleaning. Then, I cut a piece of 3/4" EMT and flared one end of it, and flattened the other end and beat it into sort of an arrowhead shape, so that it can be pushed several inches into the ground when I get on my stand. The EMT is just long enough so that the bottom end of the rod doesn't get stuck in the part of the EMT that narrows where it is flattened. A little flat spray paint on the EMT to kill the shine, and you're ready to rock.
The little camo "box" was given to me by someone at sometime as a gift. It was originally intended as a dry weather 20 ga. shell holder, evidently. I scrounged a bunch of little plastic bottles with snap-on lids that fit snugly. I can keep 25 loads of powder on one side and 25 loads of shot on the other, all in the same handy little carry-on.
All this doesn't work for walking hunting, but for stationary shooting it is the ticket.
SRH
