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[JeffinNZ]

Team.

Recently our forum member "Glen" was good enough to 're home' a .40cal hollow base mould (Lyman 39538) to NZ for me to use in my .40cal muzzler loaders. The wee 124gr Minie casts at .396 in 40-1 alloy and is a shade undersized for the .400 bore on my percussion rifle. Two wraps of 9lb onion skin paper brings the girth up to .403 and a nice snug sliding fit in the barrel.

Today I shot the rifle at 50m/55y sighting in the new sight ladder I made for the buckhorn rear sight. Shoot 2, file a bit, shoot 2, file a bit and so on. Burning 30gr of Swiss 3Fg under the PP 40-1 alloy patched and lubed with neatsfoot oil this was the better of the groups.

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Most of the groups were more in the inch which is still pretty dang good. Very happy with my first attempt at PPing.

[sav300]

Congrats,nice group.well done

[montana_charlie]

If I wanted to paper patch bullets for a muzzleloader, I would probably try those 'cross patches'...after some research to learn the trick.
But, if rolled patches give you what you need, it makes sense to do it.

Your bullets can stay in the pouch (and out of sight) until they are shoved down the bore, so I can't see anything wrong with your paper choice. It makes sort of a 'don't ask, don't tell' situation.

But, I just couldn't stand to be sitting at a bench...in public...displaying a box of real he-man 45/90 cartridges...
loaded up with PINK BULLETS!

Enough to put curls in Quigley's mustache...

CM

[Glen]

Good shooting Jeff! It looks like that .40 mould has found a good home.

[405]

You bet that is good shooting out of a muzzleloader! I would imagine that the light charge coupled with the 40-1 along with the PP fit accounted for the excellent results.... young eyes may have also played role :mrgreen:

[rhead]

But, I just couldn't stand to be sitting at a bench...in public...displaying a box of real he-man 45/90 cartridges...
loaded up with PINK BULLETS!

If shooting pink bullets improved the performance of my rifle I would try painting the rifle pink too, if that helped I might try purple poka-dots next.:-D It is about controlling the point of impact, not about impressing the spectators. If your friends are impressed by the color of the paper you use to patch your bullets you may need new friends.

[JeffinNZ]

Pink paper and my purple Long Johns. SFO, here I come.................[smilie=1:

Forgot to say only three shots in the group and the load produces 1500fps.

[leftiye]

CM, Maybe some perfume?

[docone31]

Pink for plink.
That makes sense.
Good looking patches. Looks worth it.

[NSP64]

Jeffin NZ was those slugs lubed then rolled? Darn it now I have to try PPin my ML.:(