Shot my first matches with PP boolits

[Nobade]

id be very interested in your process for loading and shooting thru the lever action and from the tube mag. maybe a photo or two for a blind guy to look at. id love to start pp'ing for my stainless gbl marlin 45-70.

Sure, I'll try to get some pics next time I load up a box of ammo for that 30-30.

The Marlin 45-70 is easy to make work with PP, it's got almost no throat in it so the patches just barely stick out of the case. Any of the boolits designed to work in the Marlin (like the RCBS ones) work just fine if you size them to .452" or so and patch back up. Just run the patch over the break in the ogive so it'll chamber and set it up so the patch just kisses the rifling. It will still be the right length to feed. I have found the 45-70 to be the easiest cartridge to work with paper patches - the boolits are big enough to hold on to, and the pressures and velocities are low enough to not stress things too much.

[bigted]

cool...sounds like a thing ill have to try...thanks

[versa-06]

CONGRATULATIONS NOBADE!!!!! Many of us out here in Bang Bang land would like to have that rewarding experience. Keep it up, and keep us posted.