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Hello, ZVP. My first revolver was a used Navy Arms 1851 .36. I used to make paper cygs. for it. I only shot R.B. The ctgs. were made up on a tapered mandrel I turned up at school out of brass. I remember I used waxed paper, with a tissue paper base for easy ignition. I packed ball & powder tight..so tight that if dropped, they would burst open. When loading, sometimes you could feel them burst in seating. Later I went to nitrated paper. One thing I always wanted to do..but never did, was to make nitrated "skin" ctg's. I planned on using the intestines of the squirrels I shot in fall.
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