I am 73 and haven't reloaded for over a year and a half due to my
wife getting Cancer last year. Sort of put a big stop to everything....
Well, she is OK for now, so I went to the range and shot up all my
45-70's in my Pedersoli Sharps. Had to reload.....
Perhaps all you younger guys can remember exactly HOW you do
stuff w/o help, but I had forgotten just how I did all the steps to reload
Paper Patched cartridges and had to relearn (reinvent) the wheel, so to say.
After going back and reviewing everything, while reloading 50 rounds with
364 grain Paper Patched Wheel Weight Cast Bullets (of my own design) with
50 grains of Goex FFg (light loads for an old shoulder), I decided I had better
record what I was doing for later, in case I forget the details again !
So I took some pictures of what I was doing and put them together so that
I could print it out and put it in my 3-ring Reloading Binder.
It will help my son, who I am hoping will carry on with BP shooting when
I go to the big Black Powder Range in the sky (hopefully not the other place !).
I will put the procedure I used to Paper Patch these cast bullets later on at the
end of this thread. Here goes. The pages print out for both sides of a piece of
paper for punching 3-holes on the right side. For what it is worth.
BTW - I use the LEE 45-70 Die Set and the Brass/Steel Powder Compressing
tools from Wolf - http://www.4570products.info/main.sc
Not sure they sell them any more....picture No. 5
You could use a hardwood dowel of the proper diameter for 45-70 cases tho.
I will probably get nasty comments that I am doing this wrong or
someone won't like my methods or my work area is cluttered.
Piffle.
DoctorBill