I must confess I don't remember the groove diameter of my rifle. "Recoil is insignificant when there is a tiger on the head of your elephant" The Maharaja of Cooch Behar Thanks Curlįrank Findlow recommends the same mixture for making grease cookies for bore rifles. Good step by step process for the paper patched projectile. "a gun without hammers is like a Spaniel without ears" King George V This is an excelelnt lube in large bores for both black powder loads and for smokeless loads. I also use Beeswax/Vaseline for lube, a little stiffer than yours, for both grooved lubed and paper patched bullets. What is the diameter of the bullets after patching and drying and the groove diameter of the barrel? If it was in the text or on a picture, I must have missed it. I probably should go and see the gentleman and make a few slugs to patch up to try in my 450 NE.Įxcellent article, Curl. I've never shot any paper patched bullets myself, but I do have access to a setup, it's a swaging setup to swage pure lead bullets that are then paper patched up to 458 cal or so. Welcome to 450_Ackley as our newest moderator here at NE.com.Ī very good article, Thanks for sharing it with us on N.E. Please note that the bullets being used in my demonstration are bullets I cast from the original Alexander Henry mould that came with, and is numbered to my. Many of you have already seen my little article on certain paper patching techniques, but I'll link it here again. Here we have a new forum, and this is my first post on it. Shooting & Reloading - Mausers, Big Bores and others
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