A machinist friend of mine made some starters out of stainless steel, and they looked great and seem to work really good. He took a 4" piece of stainless solid tube, 3/4 diameter (I think) and drilled a hole center into it and through the same hole so it could be pinned. Then he took some stainless 5/8th rod 5 inches long, and threaded the one end to accept a jag. He drilled the other end to be pinned and put that endinto the handle and pinned that with a stainless steel pin to make a short starter. Then he drilled out one end of the handle to accept the shockwave type heads, and the other he indented a rounded design, to set roundball and XTPs.

Metaldonnieg I know the short starters you are talking about at Wal Mart. They work real good. I have a couple of them so that each possible bag has its own short starter and I do not have to keep switching one, back and fourth when I want to head to the range.