Getting Back into It

[Flash Pan Dan]

Howdy All,

I want to get back into shooting BPCR Silhouette. I have a Pedersoli Rolling Block and ’74 Sharps both in 40-65. The last time I shot BPCR Silhouette was in the early nineties and I didn’t do that for very long. But I thought a lot about getting back into it.

So I want to give it a try shooting PP bullets. So with that goal in mind I bought and read Randall Wright’s book. I got a selection of slicks from Buffalo Arms, got some different types of paper and proceeded to load and test some loads. Then I came across this forum and I was confused. You folks are talking about shooting a PPB game with which I am unfamiliar. I understand what you are doing I just don’t know how you are doing it. My best load so far is;

.402 400 grain bullet with 2 wraps of tracing paper giving me a bullet diameter of .4085
55 grains of 2Fg Schutzen compressed .290
Newspaper wad over WLR primer
Stretched and annealed Starline brass fire formed and unsized.
.030 veg wad
COL of 2.725 inches.
I am putting a slight taper crimp
This load gets me a 2 ¾ vertical and 1 ½ horizontal groups at 200 yards

I can not seat the bullet out any further than this or I start bumping into the rifling and I cannot use any other wads because of the COL limit. My question is do you patch to less than bore size? Or how are you able to seat the bullet out so far and get more powder in the cartridge. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also any recommended reading would also be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Dan