Paper patch in a 63

[SharpsBig50]

Anyone tried it? Is it even possible?

[powderburner]

If you use paper cartridges, couldn’t you just pull the paper up a little further on the olive of the bullet and have what your searching for?

[SharpsBig50]

Based on how I’m constructing my ammo now I don’t think it would work well. I think you would have different lengths of patch traveling down the barrel with the bullet.

The mold I have now is the eras gone Richmond bullet, The base is rebated where you attach the cartridge to it. If I wrapped the bullet over the o give I don’t think it would chamber. I’ve found one so far that I’ve fired and the base is definitely swaging up because it shows rifling the length of the bullet.

I think it would take a dual diameter bullet like the cartridge guns use, slide the bullet in and use a separate cartridge kind of like artillery.

[powderburner]

Probably however you do it you will need a bullet small enough to wrap, to try it you might be able to size them down rolling between two pieces of steel if you want to experiment with out spending a bunch of money.

[77 sharps]

SharpsBig50
Do you have a drawing of the reamer used to cut your chamber or a dimensional drawing from a chamber cast? This would be needed to make a bullet mold.

[powderburner]

I don’t , but a cerrosafe cast is easy as is sulphur.

[SharpsBig50]

My rifle is pedersoli 1859 berdan model, I don’t think a chamber cast would work out too well. I’ve been making linen and paper cartridges and wonder the other possibilities and what people might have experimented with.