After reading Ross Seyfelds article in Handloader magazine and my own limited experinces with paper patching I will be trying some thing new. I have played with patching toward the end of the last match season. The main reason was for a better bullet to barrel fit. But after reading this article I have thought of some thing. My 30BR is a one in ten twist and loves long bullets. Well hear is my idea I will be patching .284 168gr cast bullets to fit a 308 bore and taking .244 100gr bullets(for my 256)to .257. The reason you ask is because a lead bullet is shorter for its wieght compared to a Jacketed bullet. Now a 284 168 is longer than a 308 168 that we know. Take it and patchet and you have a bullet that is all most as long as a 200gr minus 15-20% of the wieght. The patch does not add much more wieght but it adds bearing surface. If this were a copper jacket it woulod add tremondous pressure being paper it is pliable but yet still boned to the bullet core. I can now push a bullet faster than before. I do not have to worry as much about a sabot disrupting it in flight becuase most of it will stay on the bullet. Now if accuracy stays or improves I have a high speed low preassure load that will be great foor windy days or hard set rams. Here is where the sticky bullet theroy comes in. This past year I was ringing animlas with my .256 win mag becuase of hard cast bullets shatering upon impact with every thing from pigs to rams. We are talking about a 65gr bullet at 2600fps no joke. I had no leading greeat accuracy but no dewll time on the target. This allso happened with my 120gr cast bullets dont ask what speed. I will say it was above 2000fps. Any ways in theroy the paper patch will brotect the bullet from gas cutting and the barrel from leading. If this holds true with out a decrease in accuracy. I can now use a softer bullet that will collapse on it self increasing dwell time on the target. Thus no ringers. Next week I will testing these with a full rport on accuracy.
Sounds like it might work but won't that be a lot of wraps of paper? Or is my math wrong? I have limited patching experience with the 40-65 in rifles. I will be watching here to see how it turns out. A great idea if you can make them shoot!!
