Originally Posted by
BrentD
It's just a guess on my part, but that Hoch is way too blunt. That puts too much pressure on the nose and the base tries to pass it by. Paper patch bullets are pretty sensitive to this, having no groove drag to straighten them out. If you shot that bullet at 1000 yds target half of them wouldn't make it within 200 yds of the target, dropping low in the dirt.
I would rate all of those bullets too blunt, but the Hoch is over the top so.
When I look for patch material it is always shredded to some degree. What I want to see specifically is whether the edges of the paper are sliced by the rifling or if they look rough and more like the paper was torn than cut. If it looks like the former, then i would be suspicious of gas cutting. This is somewhat tricky to find because, if you are the edge of having a good seal, it won't happen all the time. shooting over snow, albeit the same color as the paper, sometimes makes it easier to find the darn things.
Brent