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semtav wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 5:06 pm He knows high IQ s tend to run in family's and since we are both able to understand paperpatching so easily, something he was never able to do, he naturally assumed…..........

Something he was not able to do, are you talking about DD?

Hey Colt, he seldom if ever knows what he is talking about. He gets really confused when you ask him what he said or what he meant. I don't tease him much about it because I suspect he has been dealing with the problem since birth.

We're here talking mostly of 8# Seth Cole paper, and my 9# 100% cotton paper. I have quite a 'back-up' stock of 9# 100% wood paper, and also 9# 75% wood/25% cotton paper, How have your testings been 'on target paper' using the 9-pound wood paper?
I know I should cut some and give it a try myself but I was just wondering how others like the 9# wood paper. I've tried wrapping it to my money bullet and have found that it wraps very easily, and tucks under the flat base just as nicely as 9# cotton does. BTW, I've wrapped everything dry to this point, never wet.

Robert

Robert , the only real difference I have found between the two papers is the 100% cotton is a little more forgiving in a wet barrel.

powderburner wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 9:21 am Robert , the only real difference I have found between the two papers is the 100% cotton is a little more forgiving in a wet barrel.

Good point. I’ll remember that. Thanks.
Btw, fwiw, I buy 100% white cotton ‘bolt’ material at the sewing store, wash/dry it, iron it, then cut 2 5/8” squares for winter shooting, 2 3/4” squares for spring/summer/fall shooting. This bulk cotton material really dries the bore.
Robert

And, I wear a thin rubber glove to get a good grip on the delrin wiping rod. The bulk cotton drying patches fit the bore tightly, perfectly. The bore is dry, very dry. I try and think of every step, trying to improve on any weak link.
Robert

Opencountry wrote: "trying to improve on any weak link." Thinking of chains and links.

Does paper patching tend to remind one of attempting to push a chain up hill?

Does paper patching tend to remind one of attempting to ush a chain up hill?
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No, not one bit. Personally speaking, I got sick and tired of hammering a rod/jag with a patch wetted with turpentine down the bores of my rifles to maintain accuracy using greasers. I’ll always stay shooting conventional/period pp bullets.
I respect the many shooters who shoot greasers; I just decided to try pp. I’ve just decided to stay shooting pp.
Robert

Black powder shooting with paper-patch bullets matter!

. With my right hand resting on my reloading bench and my left resting on my reams of pp paper I swear that I will never shoot another greaser in my remaining years of perfect sanity!
R

Coltsmoke wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 12:59 pm

semtav wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 5:06 pm He knows high IQ s tend to run in family's and since we are both able to understand paperpatching so easily, something he was never able to do, he naturally assumed…..........

Something he was not able to do, are you talking about DD?

Well that's only what I know of.
I'm sure there are many things on that list.

Hmmmm, I wonder if there is such a thing as transcendental fertilization.

DD, I don't even know what that means. I'm afraid to look it up, I have an idea what it is, I think I will just go with that.

That's OK Smoke. It may or may not show up in Websters and if it shows up on Wicki it is most likely not accurate.

Can be classed as a phenomenon. Fortunately, maybe even a once in many, many life times phenomenons at that.

This post is for Colt Smoke.

Hey smoke, get this.

The top four scoring riflemen for the Ironman Event at the Desert International last week all shot GREASE GROOVE bullets.

The Ironman is seven consecutive days of Black Powder Target Rifle shooting, 500-600-800-900-& 3 days at 1,000 yards.

All four left their keyboards behind, put on their Big Boy Pants, and came to Phoenix with a significant amount of ammunition to expend on paper targets.

No brag, just fact.

More for Smoke

Had time to formally research transcendental fertilization for you.

Transcendental: (Websters) being beyond ordinary or common experience

Fertilization: (Websters) the union of male and female gametic nuclei, to impregnate

You will need to apply the term to the context to which it was applied.