What Calibers Eo You Patch For?

[Castaway]

I'm curious, I patch primarily for 45-70 (very satisfied), but have dabbled in 303 Brit without much success.  Who out there is doing anything different?

[Black Jaque Janaviac]

I'm patching for a .357 Magnum, Rossi lever action rifle.

I think the pistol magnums stand a lot to benefit from paper patching since they generally top out at 2200 fps.  It would be quite satisfying to get deer with homemade paper patched bullets.

I haven't tuned the accuracy in really good yet.  But so far I'm getting roughly 2" groups at 40 yards with 158 grain pure lead bullets.  And they are cooking along at 1900 fps!

I hope to shrink that group down to about an inch or 1 1/2 inches.

[Cottonwood]

I patch a .451 dia 530-gr hollow cup bullet for my 45-90.

[t1885b]

.450/400 2-3/8", 240 gr. RN.

[Kragman71]

I started patching for the 30/30 Winchester,and finally got satisfied with it,along with a 'drop dead'kill on a 6 pointer.
I followed that with a year of frustration with my usually friendly 30/40 Krag.
Today,I loaded up my first Paper patched batch for my 300 Savage.
Frank

[BR]

Kragman- I notice you have three of the same cartridges I'm trying to load for. What recipe did you come up with for the 30-30?

[Kragman71]

BR,
Glad to be of some help.
My successful hunting load:
170 grain custom bullet,based on the Lyman 311041(exact same nose)
      Brinell#6  paper#9  alox lube  wax wad
30.5 grains IMR#3031
Rem brass
Rem primer
O L 2.55 (max)
Good luck
Do you have a successful paper patched bullet load for the 30/40.?
I have a bunch of lousey ones,that I can share
Frank

[Redhawk1]

I paper patch only the 45-70. Not because I want to, but in Delaware if I want to shoot my Shiloh Sharps for deer hunting, I have to use paper patch bullets. :evil:  I personally achieve better accuracy with grease grove bullets.

[Kragman71]

Redhawk1,
I may be showing my ignorance,but I never heard of a law like that,nor can I find a reason for it.
Could you fill me in on some details?
Al things being equal,the paper patched bullet will travel faster anf farther;so it can't be safer;can it?
Frank

[Redhawk1]

Delaware is a Shotgun only State. Last year a few of use signed and supported using Sharps and Sharps Replica rifle for shotgun deer season. When the proposal went through, the guy who wrote it up gave comparisons of Black powder loaded with paper patch bullets to in line muzzle loaders and shotgun slugs. Well, to get our foot in the door for rifles, only Sharps rifles and black powder loads were purposed. We tried other rifle cartridges with smoke less powder and got shot down. So when they approved Sharps rifles and blackpowder, they also looked at the data presented and added paper patch bullets only. If you like go to Delaware's hunting regulations on line and you will see how it was written. So that is how the law came to be. We have also been shot down on handgun hunting due to a stupid organization called Delmarva Sportsman Association. DENREC was going to let a few handgun in for deer hunting, but the DSA tried to show there might and said all handguns or none so DENREC said NONE. We are still fighting to get handguns approved for hunting. Also State Police are fighting agents it.

[SINGLETREE 45]

  I paper patch for both my Sharps rifles. One of my rifles is a C Sharps 45-120 in a 1875 model, the other is a 1874 C Sharps 16 pound rifle in 45-100.
              At the moment I'm using a NEI 500 grain paper patch bullet, but I'm going to get into swaging real soon.   :wink: