Like A Breech Loader

[Good Cheer]

Anyone here shooting their single shots with black loaded after the boolit as with a mid-1800's breech loader?

[marlinman93]

I don't shoot BP, but I do have a couple breech seating cartridge guns that I breech seat bullets, and follow with a case of smokeless powder. If doing this with BP, be sure the charged case and wad touch the bullet base when chambered. Don't want to ring your chamber with an air gap!
This is my homemade breech seating tool I built to use on a couple of my Ballard rifles in .32-40 and .38-55 It hooks on the receiver and levers the bullet into the rifling.:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v691/marlinguy/DSCF4587.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/marlinguy/media/DSCF4587.jpg.html)

[Good Cheer]

Reckon you'll be able tell I never got into the paper cartridge breech loaders.
Now, you just touched on something I've scratched my head over about 1860's military breech loading arms that used a boolit fastened to a paper cartridge. Everybody knows you can ring a muzzleloader barrel. Had one sold to me once upon a time and had to get it rebored. And everybody knows there was space in the chamber of those breech loaders and a boolit sitting up there in front. No way it was a charge of settled powder and a boolit firmly seated upon it.
So how come they didn't get ringed?

[marlinman93]

My guess would be that nobody would know if they did get bulged chambers? In a cartridge gun you'll know instantly, as case extraction gets very hard right after it happens! But there's no case to extract, so no harm done if the chamber did bulge slightly. Might never know without doing a chamber cast, and comparing it to a standard chamber.
But it could also be that without a brass cartridge case, it might not ring the chamber as easily.