A Couple of Newbie Questions
I've shot cast boolits most of my life, and cast for about 25 years, but though I've been intrigued by paper patching since I was a kid I'm only now about to try patching and shooting my first ones. I've read through this sticky, the one on the LASC site by Mollohan and Iong, and lots of interesting threads here. A couple of questions I'm wondering about before I start wrapping: (1) On two-diameter boolits like bore riders, should the patch length be based on the diameter of the smaller part, to prevent patch overlapping there, or would you still base it on the larger diameter? Seems to me like the former would be best, but it will slightly increase the gap over the larger part. (2) If in looking at your boolit diameter, target overall patched diameter, and papers on hand, and see a combination with a thin tough unfilled paper that would give perfect dimensions with 3 wraps, is there any good reason not to try it? Is the double wrap carved in stone and handed down from on high, or just convenient? Thank you for sharing your experience! :smile: