Somebody Splain to me the using dime novel pages...

[Stumpkiller]

Interesting...I thought the US dime was .705 diameter? I used penny-rolls when I first started reenacting, and shooting .58 blanks and .75 blanks, but we weren't ramming them down. My SxS left barrel is choked modified, so it's .595 at the muzzle

LD

Have to ask at the counter for the old 1794 silver half-dime roll tubes.

 

[Eterry]

I tried the comics page from the newspaper, but it acted funny.

That reminds me of the one about the clown whose plane crashed on a desert island and was eaten by cannibals...cannibal 1 said to cannibal 2...."does this taste Funny to you??"

 

[tenngun]

Well I tried tolit paper but it smelled funny, but using paper towels I could really clean up.

 

[smoothshooter]

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The tuna can was shot at 20 yards if I remember correctly, with a 2 oz load of bb’s out of my 44” barrel 16 gauge smoothbore using 70 grns of Fg Goex.

I’ve got CRS these days.I did write the yardage / load down on the target however I’m not where the target is at this time.

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Some loads that “slugged”. Some did this even without glue or tape on them.

Paper bag recovered after the shot.
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Post-It-Notes make excellent shot capsules. Many sizes available as well.
I glue them shut and don't depend on the adhesive that comes on them to hold them together.

 

[Tb54]

Yeah, I was wondering about post-it notes too. Will they stick to the foliage and mark your shot too?

Seriously though, paper is an abrasive. I’ve used it many times to clean contacts on electrical equipment- like sand paper, and about the only other thing that will take the edge off a knife better, would be a rock. I’ve considered experimenting with paper patching balls and undersized bullets like a paper sabot, but was hesitant to scour my bbl. what’s the practical side of that thought?

 

[Tb54]

Well I tried tolit paper but it smelled funny, but using paper towels I could really clean up.

Rabbit trail....
That reminds me of the time we ran out of toilet paper so I used a wash cloth, and threw it on the dirty cloths pile to be washed. I got a phone call from my wife later that day about the water had a bad smell to it, she noticed, it smelled like sewer when she was in the shower, so I better treat the well when I got home. I never told her why.

 

[Flint62Smoothie]

Never has a BP ‘cartridge’ shooter ever replaced a work out barrel by shooting paper patched boolits ... that I know of and I’ve been shooting Schuetzen rifles for ~30-years.