If, and it may be a big if, a style of wood golf tee could be used for the base plug. Also had a thought about the wood base plug commonly used with them. I've thought about the Pritchett style in the past but never "pulled the trigger" on going down that road of testing. Keep us posted on the progress with the Pritchett. Your paper cartridges look excellent and great for fast loading and some battle re-enactment. The little carbine really surprised me about how accurate it is with a Minié- consistently shooting about an inch at 50 yards. Because of collector value and wear and tear, I only shoot them sparingly and carefully. I have an original P53 BSAT Tower carbine and an original P53 LA Co "militia" 3 band. I shoot the Zoli most for obvious reasons. 577/.58 rifle muskets I have are an original Remington Zouave and a replica Zoli Zouave. A pure guess… but I'd think, for best accuracy, the thick skirted Pritchett would need to be pretty close to bore diameter and would require a fairly heavy charge to fully obturate the base and shank to fully engage the rifling? Thinking out loud here with zero experience It does have a very thick skirt so is a puzzle to me in comparison to the Miniés. The design is similar to that used in the post-percussion big single shot cartridge era here with the paper patch BP types. The only example I have is an unfired original "pick up". Gives a unique insight that goes beyond the written history. The history of the various arms and ammo of that era is what interests me and one of the reasons I enjoy shooting them. 568 with the longer projectile, which will suit the Pat 58 better, I was still figuring things out and bumbling along as usual and sent the wrong length. I have been a bit disappointed with the groups I have shot with the Pritchet bullets so far, and will get another mould made up in. Quite a few of the Adelaide Black Powder club blokes use these moulds, so I could enquire the results from the PH 3 handers. I cannot really speak for the three band rifles, although my original 3rd model Contract musket shoots quite well with this bullet from memory, but cannot remember the last group I shot with it, I do remember being quite surprised as how well it shot, as I had lapped the bore many years earlier, and not used it since. That is shooting my Pat 58 Parker Hale Naval rifle. Off the bench 2 to 2 1/2 inch group at 50 yards, 4inches at 100 off the bench. 579 after pushing through my lube size die, just to get rid of excess lube. I need to upgrade as they are 35 yrs old, and it would be nice to know actual weights of some of my minnies'. Ĭannot give you exact weight as my scales go not further than 500 grains. Be nice to make a machine that you fed paper and bullets into and had cartridges ready to charge and grease come out the other end. I am investigating having cutting dies made up for the paper components with a view to upping the quantity that can be manufactured. 568 diameter bullet lengthened to 1.09 and see how that goes. I am still tweaking these cartridges, with a thought to using them for hunting of pig and the like. I can shoot 9 -10 ring group using the Trevor Bugg Minnie. These groups were shot using the Parker Hale 2 band Navy rifle with 1/48 twist. Both seem to give me 8 ring groups using a 50 yd pistol target off the bench. 554 diameter, 530 grains, and another shorter version, but at. I am using two types of Pritchet bullet, one in. These are the best made yet, I waxed the waxed thread to make it choke the end off at the base of the bullet more neatly and seems to have worked. I am currently rolling using the late pattern which has the short outer wrapper, conserving the Beinfang 360 linen rag paper. Just finished rolling a few more paper cartridges the other day, as it was about 112"F in the water bag, nothing better to do.
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