We tried a little today, mostly trying paper cartridges with round ball, to see how well the paper types worked. Da Boy and I took our smokepoles out to see what worked now.
A rare photo of two BP rifles on the line at the same time.
I got ready - the blue lid has curling paper cartridges and nitride coffee filter paper cartridges.
Round ball with nitrided coffee filter paper.
Good results were had with both paper types...but then was the big one - will this paper patching work? You may notice a LOT of shaved off wax around the muzzle - I haven't gotten the lube mix right yet.
The ball was WAY too wide with the patching, and I think I bent my ball starter hammering it in, and I know I scratched my buttplate doing it. Everything shot well, once it was actually hammered in. Ricky did try a few Minie balls, but he got rattled early and never really recovered, so he missed with both paper patched balls. For him I stripped off a few layers of paper, to see if that smoothed things out = it did. for him. Me, not so much. The steel was placed at 75 yards this time, because the idea is that I will be able to hit this size target from the standing position at 100 yards every time, eventually.
But, I am wondering if I should just stick with round ball...potato long distance picture from the cell phone. Doing something halfway right, I think.
Originally Posted by armoredman
We tried a little today, mostly trying paper cartridges with round ball, to see how well the paper types worked. Da Boy and I took our smokepoles out to see what worked now.
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