New member here, have read a lot of the info available but have a question about whether my rifle is a candidate for Paper patched bullets.
The bore has very tall and narrow lands, there is some pitting of the grooves close to the chamber but the lands are sharp and the rest of the bore looks great
Here's what I have.
Just slugged the bore on my 9.3x72R drilling circa 1925.
Across the groves- .365
Across the lands- .3445-3455
6 lands and grooves
Land width- .052
Groove width- .131
I'd like to paper patch a lead slug for this.
I have a Lyman mold #358430, it casts a plain base .358 bullet at 199gr of pure lead. I'd like to give it two wraps of .002 for a total diameter of .366-.367. What size sizing die should I order for the final size and lube on this bullet.
What do you think? Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks
AWS