Black powder paper patched bullets 45-70

If you are hunting with pp bullets then under bore size is better with a soft alloy bp fouling must be taken into account. Reloading 4570 with black powder m1881 500gr bullet37. Very good accuracy has been obtained with paperpatched bullets, but the assembly procedure is relatively laborintensive. I bought an rcbs mold for a 500 gr pp bullet to use in a 4570 browning bpcr. Loaded with swiss black powder and a 400 grain round nose lead bullet. I just ordered a perdesoli 1874 sharps snipe rifle. I like using paper patched bullets because you can get more powder in the case, of course you already know this if youve been patching for a bit.

Shooting plates with a sharps 4570, using black powder. I shot some jacketed bullets with black in my original winchester 1886. Using black powder is now big deal, i have it, know how to use it, and know it works fine with paper patched bullets, but can i use smokeless powder with paper patched bullets as well. So there i stood, holding in my hands not just a good woods rifle but a black powder cartridge rifleat 14 the cost of others i had priced.

A cast bullet is made by allowing molten metal to solidify in a mold. Jul 10, 2008 if you are shooting black powder, the patched bullet should be bore size, using the black powder charge to slug the bullet up to fill. Good paper patched hunting bullet for 4570 bp post by who cares wed dec 31, 2014 6. It is an excellent article for anyone interested in this stuff. The key to making a pp load shoot accurately is the snug fit in the bore of your rifle.

This article is intended for shooters who are currently loading lubed. A lot of guys shoot grooved bullets with paper but most shoot a soft straight side patch bullet with concave base. I have a question of the use of wads under paperpatched bullets. For those using paper patch bullets, is there a noticeable difference in the number of shots before accuracy falls off with an uncleaned barrel. In addition to coming to this conclusion about prepatched bullet diameter, i also. Paperpatching your inline muzzleloader western powders. Bullet size and paper size to add up to the right diameter. Paper patch bullet question my question has to do with powder choices. Nov 11, 2014 does anybody know anything about paper patched bullets for 4570. The lee bullet mold is a good rendering of the bullet. Bullet diameter for 4570 paper patched cartridge shiloh. Refining paperpatched loads for smokeless powder load data. Black powder 4570 handirifle the frugal outdoorsman. See our blog for up to date gun rights reports and tell us what you think we describe another method to.

Loaded in this fashion, with a grease ball and lubed paper, you should be able to shoot 10 shots and push all the fouling out the muzzel with one dry patch. This is a discussion on paper patching 4570 within the lever action forums, part of the gun forum category. Read more on how to make and load paper patched bullets and ammunition. Paper patched bullets a blast from the past sporting shooters. A properly paper patched bullet will not lead the barrel or leave any fouling other than powder which is easy to remove unless using black powder and that is a different category, and black powder and substitutes are great propellants for use in pp bullets. Most people think that ppb are for black powder only but they can be used with smokeless loads, and either will work with fantastic results. Jun 16, 2017 shooting a paper patched bullet in your inline muzzleloader, using blackhorn 209 powder behind it, opens up a whole new way to shoot your rifle. Ppbs work equally well with black or smokeless powder.

Hi dude, tried this with my 4570 using a 250 grain bullet, results on paper at 200 yards was not so good. I think this is a 7 part video giving detailed instructions on how to reload the m1881 black powder load 4570 ammo with a 500 grain lead bullet. Ask shiloh questions about your shiloh sharps rifle. The original load was a 405 grain hollow based bullet over 70 grains of black powder. Good paper patched hunting bullet for 4570 bp shiloh rifle. Has anyone won a bpcr competition using paper patch bullets. Paper patched bullets are still available, and some blackpowder shooters still roll their own paperpatched bullets for. Buffalo arms company sells over 12000 black powder cartridge rifles. Does anybody know anything about paper patched bullets for 4570. Aug 06, 2012 shooting plates with a sharps 4570, using black powder. The powder charge settled right to the top of the case. However, i do load and shoot black powder bp charged paper patched bullets ppbs exclusively for my sharps falling block and. The use of paper patched bullets is especially known from the buffalo hunts on the american prairies where millions of the shaggy beasts fell for paper patched bullets.

Whether you have a sharps, rollingblock, or a hawkin, all can be loaded using the paper patch method. Sep 11, 2016 for the record, this is not my video or gun or cartridge load. In my opinion, paper patched bullets was a kind of fashion in the early black powder cartridge era, and they were not necessarily better compared to grease grooved bullets. Most of the bullets looked like this, no gas cutting, but bigger fins than i expected. I coule get 75 grs of 3f black with a hornady 300 gr jhp bullet. Perhaps this helps a little to get ya started, paper patch bullets are really cool to load and shoot just time. With the diamondknurled bullet and smokeless powder, the more shallow depth of the lube works very nicely and helps prevent lubeinduced imbalances when the bullet exits the barrel. Disclaimer faqs gun links discount sporting goods newsletter. Like almost all black powder loads and bullets you have to experiment to find out what works. In fact paper patched shooters have been winning the creedmoor matches at lodi, wisconsin on a regular basis since 2010, often taking two of the top three places. The powder charge was reduced to 55 grains because the troopers complined of the recoil in the carbines. Killing effects of paper patched bullets in 4570 and 45110. My gun was rebored from 40something to 4570, so it had a fresh bore.

Here are the benefits of shooting paperpatched bullets in your inline. The bullet weight was changed to 500 grains to improve long range accuracy. I have done all my bpcr shooting4570, 34 shilo using 20. This ammunition is currently loaded black powder ammo in 4570 government. Wrapping and sizing paper patched bullets for muzzleloaders. These lubricants softened the black powder fouling for easier removal and reduced the tendency of. So a paper patch bullet will be a bit undersized and the paper rolled to fit the rifling. About half of the circumference of bullet had deep cuts. One thing that i have found when i tell people that i make and shoot paper patch bullets they seem to think that i shoot black powder only. Wrapping and sizing paper patched bullets for muzzleloaders duration. Mar 06, 2014 paper patching bullets for my 1887 martini henry.

When i tell them that i have used black powder but use mostly smokeless then they become more interested. Paper patched bullets ppb are probably the most controversial of all lead bullet styles. Dan wrote a nice article in the black powder cartridge news in the winter 2008 edition. If your rifle is chambered for the 45702110, cases which are. But with black powder, the amount of lube held in the diamond pattern, and the kind of lube usually a dry wax type best used with the knurl, doesnt soften the.