.44-77 and paper patch?

[Kurt]

Arnie.
Go back to post 20 I have a drawing my new .44-77 reamer in the works. Look at the chamber end (case stop) I have a 5 degree that goes to the bottom of the groove with out a 1.5 degree extending into the throat, 5 degree/1.5 degree compound if that 1.5 was added. The 7 degree is of Orville Loomers design, he called it the original Sharps chamber but of all the Sharps chamber casts I have and looked at they were all at least 3 or 3.5 degree till the later Borchardt's came about and they were more like the Brownings now use.
I guess you could call the 5 or 7 degree as a longer free bore but but I call it a tapered throat.
I have converted most of my rifles from the 45 degree to 4 and 5 degrees because of all the recovered bullets I have looked at shot with a 45 degree chamber end have lead shaved off from what was in the case as it passed over the 45 degree and it ended the lead rings and paper rings slowing the lead smears into the throat when using a GG bullet. The 45 degree id not a friendly wall shooting lead bullets. It started showing up when the .30-40 Krag came about using the cordite and smokeless powder and guilted bullets. But I might be wrong in my findings.