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    Paper Cartridges for BP

    Interesting thread on an American forum about making paper cartridges for BP.

    http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=144094

    anyone here done anything like this?
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    That looks very interesting to me. I didn't go all the way through the threads so don't know if anyone has raised a problem but it looks better to do it that way than mess around on the range.

    I'm even more determined to put in for a pistol now come next variation!
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    will give that ago mate

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    I'm going to definitely give that a go, I take it is legal as it is not completely self contain i.e. no primer?

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    The British Army started using paper cartrages in 1664 but the calvary were using them since at least 1644.

    I think all Amenrican civil war period pistols used them. Not all English pistols though, I think the Adam's had foil cartridges where you pulled off the back to expose tissue paper beneath.

    OTOH period cylinders were taper bored so they went in tight to the paper. none of that modern 'shaving lead' cylindrical bore nonsense. I think the paper might tear in a repro

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    There was a French company some years ago selling M/L revolver cartridges made of a pellet of pressed BP glued to the base of a conical bullet. These were reviewed in a gun comic, IIRC OK but without enthusiasm.

    It seemed to me that these could save quite a bit of faffing on the range, without condemning you to more at home like paper cartridges would. Dunno if they're still available, but I ain't heard tell of 'em for a while now.

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