Hyde's patched

[Freedom]

Dean as you saw already it's just as easy or so it seems to simply patche them that way to start with, altho by twisting the tail and then cutting it out the patch is probably tighter on the bullet.
I sort of wonder if a person could sharpen up a good hole punch enough to cut the paper. Biggest concern doing it that way would be just cutting the paper and not "ringing" the bullet base.

Don, this is exacly what I have done with a hole punch. I think that a light circle cut on the base of the bullet will not effect much as long as the cut doesn't get to the edge... I was finding paper from my twisted or folded tails at the target at 400 yard line, so I just used one of my punches to remove the center of the patch from the base of the bullet.

My bullets have a slight cup ..not a flat base.

The punch leaves just a little paper roll over the base. Things improved as I tested it and got some nice groups (3"/10 shots@300yards) but always had the flyer.....I looked around the prairie and sure enough found a bullet with a piece of paper patch still attached to its' tail.

I didn't totally give-up on the paper patch because I love the idea... but because of its' "issues" I won't drive 4 hours+ to shoot them in a match.

When a guy shooting paper sets down beside me at the line, I sometimes wonder if he may have actually beat me if he had just used a regular bullet