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Old 01-12-2017, 07:33 AM
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Originally Posted by oldgutpile View Post
The interesting thing about paper patching and blackpowder; This combination makes for the perfect projectile as the blackpowder bumps up the lead bullet to fit the rifling perfectly, and the paperpatch helps prevent leading and acts like a modern sabot of sorts. Old technology that modern day manufacturers have bent over backwards trying to duplicate with jacket designs.
I was speaking about this just the other day with another cast bullet shooter .
You can make allowances for some big differences in bullet to bore ratios with a patch and still get excellent results .
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