Yep, they sure do print pretty, and the bore gets nice and smooth after awhile and they are easy to clean up after. And you're right, too. I found my box of onion skin and it's also 9 lb Eaton 25% rag and my note on the side says 0.002" after drying.
I know some guys will take a standard bullet, patch it, then run the patched bullet through a lubrisizer to squeeze it down under the paper. I've never even tried it because I just assumed the bullet distortion would be unhelpful to accuracy, but maybe someone will report success with it. It just seems like an awful lot of squeeze.
I have paper patched a number of .45 pistol bullets I have molds for that I seldom use for pistol anymore, and they make great plinkers in the Marlin 1895. The little round nose RCBS 185 grain mold I have has a lot of bearing surface length, and over 12-15 grains of Universal shoot better than collar button bullets I've tried in that gun with Unique.
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