Starline Brass

[Gunlaker]

I kind of think that the lead rings plastered to the case mouth is an indication that the case might be a tad to long and the case is stretching into the throat before the bullet has released the case.
I've also found that running bullets with to thick of paper , and bullets to small in diameter, both can leave you paper rings even in paper patch chambers..

I've never seen an actual paper ring Don, but it might be like Kurt has said in the past, that they are being pushed out the bore when wiping. When I got into the paper patching I pretty much went straight with the advice of Kenny and Dan on the big bullets, thin paper thing.

I learned one thing the other day. I have been running my patches about 0.025" shorter than the shank. I tried Brent's idea of wiping with pure water. When I go home and cleaned the bore, the patches came out with a grey wash of lead. No pieces, just color. I guess patching a tad short might be bad. I never had th lead wash before, but probably because I was previously using a little Ballistol in my wiping fluid. I think I'm going to patch the full shank from now on :-)

Chris.