Bullet fit

[Don McDowell]

I don’t know for sure if there really is a true paper patch chamber
The ODGs that muzzle loaded their cartridge rifle seated their bullets from the muzzle to a predetermined depth then chambered a charged case when ready to fire. The Creedmoor shooters details on that are slim, but the schuetzen shooters had a 1/16-1/8 in space between the wad in the case mouth and the bullet base.
David Menshall came up with some factory patched Creedmoor bullets preserved in a British museum wrapped in thin paper ,and the bullet diameter was .446