This should get a few of you out there thinking, check out this new web site showing a way of paper patching a mini for your muzzleloader.
Paper Patching for Muzzleloaders
Paper Patching for Muzzleloaders
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Paper patching mini for muzzleloader
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Cool link...
I was trying to find out what type of paper they used, I guessing a thin parchment.
I could be wrong...
In the book: "The Muzzleloading Cap Lock Rifle" by: Ned H. Roberts, He states that they used an OILED BOND PAPER around .002 of an inch thick.
The Sharps Buffalo rifle bullets were (and still are) paper patched, but this was the first time I read about minie balls being patched with anything.
The old muzzleloading Lewis and Billinghurst match rifles used oiled bond paper patched bullets too, but the patch was a cross (+) shape and the bullet was placed in the center of the cross. The legs of the cross folded along the shank of the bullet during the loading process to form the patch.
These paper patched bullets were first aligned and loaded into a false muzzle, then fitted over the bore and rammed down onto the powder charge.
I was trying to find out what type of paper they used, I guessing a thin parchment.
I could be wrong...
In the book: "The Muzzleloading Cap Lock Rifle" by: Ned H. Roberts, He states that they used an OILED BOND PAPER around .002 of an inch thick.
The Sharps Buffalo rifle bullets were (and still are) paper patched, but this was the first time I read about minie balls being patched with anything.
The old muzzleloading Lewis and Billinghurst match rifles used oiled bond paper patched bullets too, but the patch was a cross (+) shape and the bullet was placed in the center of the cross. The legs of the cross folded along the shank of the bullet during the loading process to form the patch.
These paper patched bullets were first aligned and loaded into a false muzzle, then fitted over the bore and rammed down onto the powder charge.
