Designing the 2-diameter paper patch bullet.

[Distant Thunder]

Don,

With Eddie's john boat bullet believe me I understand that if you know your bullet and can read the conditions you do not have to be some super duper high BC boat tailed piece of lead to shoot good scores. There are advantages to a higher BC no doubt, but accuracy will win the match when combined with good spotting and knowing your bullet. A high BC bullet may be more forgiving in a misread but in this game misread by much and your off the paper. A miss by an inch is no different than one by 3 feet.

Do my blunt little 40s drift more in the wind? Yes, but if I steer them right they go to the same spot every time.


The only time I have used a grease cookie was with pp in my .44-100 and there it was needed too get any kind of accuracy at all. I think there are benefits in the bigger cases just like the wad stack that some shooters use. I have had good results using just one wad and no cookies in all my other chamberings. Most often it is a .060" LDPE wad, but in my .45-90 I had to used a .060" HDPE wad for best accuracy. You don't really know what will work until you try it.


Chris,

I have other C. Sharps rifles that do very well with pp, it's just the one that is playing hard to get with pp. It has about 3/16" freebore at .460 diameter. I'm hoping a 2-diameter bullet will be the answer.

I'm pretty sure Brooks will make 2-diameter to whatever you need. One size does not fit all, but it should be a simple matter to figure out what diameters and lengths are needed for any rifle. That is what I have tried to explain in this thread.