Paper patching bullets

[Black Jaque Janaviac]

Randy,

In the Hidden Costs... thread I brought up paper patching.

Here's an article I stumbled across online.

http://members.shaw.ca/bobschewe/

It sounds like he's using some huge calibers (.54 and .58 ) and they're not inlines but the "technology" is certainly transferrable.

He's launching a 430 grain minie at >1600 fps!  Thats 2600 ft-lbs.  I would imagine that a .45 could throw something in the 250 to 350 class much faster.

Primer, powder, home-cast bullet, and a piece of paper.  That should save a bundle of $.  Unless you are stuck with the pellets.  The only way to trim that cost is to go with loose powder or a Savage 10ML.

He mentions a book by Paul Mathews.  Mr. Mathews has written another book called The Paper Jacket that one followed the Practical Paper Jacket.

[Underclocked]

Read that site long ago and was interested then, but never followed up with any experimentation.

I just mic'd a Post-It note at a touch over .003 thickness.  They already have the adhesive on the one end so seems to me like you could get several patches from one sheet?  Might give that a try.  Something else to make my wife raise her eyebrows.   :-)

[Ironwood]

Underclocked... I haven't read the article mentioned above.  I did a little paper patching for a 45-70.  I think I used 100# Bond paper.  No adhesive is required.  You just wet the paper roll it on the bullet.  Tuck the end into the cavity of a hollow base bullet.  Twist the end tight on a flat base bullet and when the patch is dry you just clip the end off.

The reason the bullet in the photo looks so ratty... I patched it at least 20 years ago.  It's been kicking around in a bin on my loading bench all this time.