I saw a package of 24 pound 100% cotton resume paper at a local charity resale shop for cheap and hesitated on buying it. I just don't know how that thick of a 100% cotton paper could be made to behave.
Anyone here used such?
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I saw a package of 24 pound 100% cotton resume paper at a local charity resale shop for cheap and hesitated on buying it. I just don't know how that thick of a 100% cotton paper could be made to behave.
Anyone here used such?
24 pound paper is to thick for my use as paper patch I have used it to make nitrated paper cartridges for my 1859 Sharps replica . It is stronger then coffee filters that I also tried both work well as cartridge material.
I can not remember what the pound rating and seem to find nothing with a search? My Sharps .50 groove depth is .510" and my Lyman mold casts at .501" Two wraps of paper are used .
A walk out to the reloading room the paper I got from C. Sharps arms is .002 " I think that it is 8 pound paper but it does not say . The 100% cotton Vellum I bought locally is .003 . The gal in the store was pretty helpful when I showed up with a micrometer and told her what I needed the paper for .
The 24 pound paper 100% cotton I have is a bit over .006" .
I also had some Onion Skin paper that worked I can not find it I may have used it up .
The 24 pound bonded paper was actually bought years ago for letters to law makers no for paper patching and it was a lot cheaper then I see today! Continued searches do not show any paper thinner then 16 lb. today , Searching tracing paper gave me the Vellum I have but no thickness?
If you have a real loose bullet you may get away with the 24 pound paper or if you can size it on the bullet without tearing it would add .025" just wrapped on .
It can work with bullets way under bore, for hunting type loads, but the accuracy fizzes out at 200 yards or so.
Thin is the way to go.
Another use for that paper might be nitrate it and use for paper cutter Sharps, Springfield muskets etc.
Thick paper can be made to behave but 100% cotton is some tough stuff.
That heavy cotton paper is a bugger to work with, but the lighter stuff such as the 8 and 9 lb that we can't get anymore is easy enough.
This makes me wonder what kind of paper the British military used for their mid-19th Century paper patched bullets.
Probably a normal linen paper. This is some pretty heavyweight stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Good Cheer
Plain old brown paper could probably be more useful.
The stuff crammed in amazon boxes.
May work for single wrap experimenting or over primer wads. Might even work in lesser caliber smokeless loads, but never having use 24 lb cotton I'd be remiss to give any advise on its usability
That paper would work good if you chase patch the bullet with just one wrap not overlapping with square patch ends just touching and the bottom edge of the patch is flush with the bullet base not folded under the base I tried it but you almost need to breach seat the bullet to load it in a breech loader. It's mostly used for the muzzleloader rifles.
I found these links to a paper thickness charts helpful...
https://www.komaxwv.com/paperweight
https://casepaper.com/resources/pape...per-thickness/