Rain permitting I'm ready to take a ship as a prize!

[Osseon]

thought I would show my first attempt at making paper cartridges for my Blunderbuss using .69 ball. Any tips or criticism welcome! I know blunderbuss mostly used shot, but I don't have a musket (yet) and really wanted to expand the hobby a bit. Shot cartridges might follow but I imagine they will look the same.

cartridge is folded mid roll in a flap between ball and powder, and took a bit of a ahistoral detour by tucking the flap into the seem for a smaller cartridge. Only watched 2 videos on it.

 

[tenngun]

Arrrrhhhhh

 

[deermanok]

Looks good.

 

[11th corps]

Like it.
Blunderbuss is way cool!

 

[JohnnieT]

Excellent!

 

[Master Blaster]

Handsome piece...got me thinking now, usually a bad omen.

 

[Nameless Hunter]

An' when you have yer prize, you can celebrate with a meal at Arrrby's...

 

[Master Blaster]

Long John Silver's...

 

[appalichian hunter]

Rip ,Rumble and Roar. looks good now you can be a real pyrate.

 

[Musketeer]

Once you've boarded that ship, remember to choose the lesser of two weevils.

 

[Mustakrakish]

What's a good type of paper to use for cartridges like this? Is the type of paper significant?

 

[appalichian hunter]

Nitrated paper

 

[Osseon]

What's a good type of paper to use for cartridges like this? Is the type of paper significant?

I tried using copy paper but personally it felt too thick and "fake" so I went with coffee filters. The kind I got felt great, but probably a tad bit too thin so I double layered them. They have a nice old feel to them and you get hundreds for like $2 at walmart. They don't cut exactly out to the 5.5/5.25/6/3, but close enough for me.

Beware they will smolder and smoke on the ground, and make sure you stomp them out before you leave the range.

 

[Osseon]

Update! The paper cartridges worked very well. Despite being a slight rain me and another forum member here were able to ring a gong at 20 yards and put a few holes in other useless objects. Despite the amount of water around no sailing vessels were sighted and no prize was taken.

 

[Grenadier1758]

Once you've boarded that ship, remember to choose the lesser of two weevils.

Captain Aubrey never tolerated pirates.

 

[Whitworth]

"Throw the dirty dogs in irons Mate and fetch me me my wench"

 

[tenngun]

What's a good type of paper to use for cartridges like this? Is the type of paper significant?

News paper, or the paper tgat folks crumple up for packing, brown bag thinner paper bags like lunch bags. The paper makes a wad at the same time.

 

[Centurion]

Wench... metwick or sae? Qwescent maybe?

 

[Packrat]

I have shot Buck and Ball out of mine, pretty deadly at close range

 

[starman]

Making paper cartridges for my Brown Bess, I use pages out of old books that nobody wants at yard sales. Only older ones without slick pages. I might give nitrated paper a try. I don't particular like the string I use. What type of string are you using?