Lucrezia and paper patch bullets

[Eric Johanen]

Tested another load yesterday. Starline brass, CCI LR primer, 105 grains of Swiss 1 fg using a orange juice carton card, 1/8 inch DGL lube wad followed by another orange juice carton wad and the Accurate 50-590p paper patched bullet. 1'st card compressed followed by the lube wad kept in the fridge to solve the lube transference problem with the case. 2'nd card wad snugged down onto the lube wad. Cut the lube wad with the case mouth...next time I'll use my 3/8'ths inch lube wad mold again kept cold to avoid transference. After 3 days there was no indication of lube migration into the paper patches. After firing, the paper was clean and dry. 25 yard timed and rapid fire target posted at 100 yards and benched rested. 6 O'clock hold placed the first 2 shots middle of the black just at the top of the 10 ring. Sight change to line of white placed the shots into the bottom of the black just above the front sight. Light was a bit diffused with the barrel sights in the shade and that caused me to print two groups. 1 group of 3 shots centered in the bottom of the 10 ring and the 2'nd group just to the left with 2 X's and 1 10 touching at 9 O'clock and the rest into 1 nice large hole at 9 O'clock between the outside 9 ring and the 10 ring. (Group of 6 shots into 1.25 horizontal X .5 vertical). I think this load shot pretty well! Just closer attention to proper sight alignment. Wiped between shots and there was a very nice greasy lube ring at the muzzle. Fired 5 shots at the SR target posted at 200 yards and a 6 O'clock hold resulted in a fist sized group just a bit left of center at the top of the front sight. Could work for well for a hunting load. These loads were put up with the short brass and did leave some perfect paper rings. Next time out I'll use the full length brass and see if the paper rings disappear. Lucrezia is proving to be quite accurate and a real pleasure to shoot.