Designing the 2-diameter paper patch bullet.

[Don McDowell]

I wrap my dual diameters much like a straight sided bullet. I do end up with a bit of a long tag from the last corner of the patch, but I'm pretty sure that as long as the leading edge of the patch is nice and straight all is well. I wet patch all my bullets and I think it works really well with the dual diameters as the paper dries tight and smooth to the base section. Shooting into the 80's at 800 and 1k when the wind gods allow seems to suggest it's working
I won't go back to greasers unless at some point I get a rifle that just won't shoot patched (but if such a rifle does find it's way here, it may not be here long enough to get worry about). Fouling control with the bore wipers from BACO is stupidly quick ,easy and complete. I have shot some pretty decent scores in the 44-77 at 2 and 300 with the dd's with nothing more than a few puffs on a blow tube.