Combustible Paper Cartridges

BlackPowderBen · October 14, 2015, 09:28 AM

Do any of you make combustible paper cartridges for you cap and ball revolvers? I'm going to start making them based on this guys video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8CF3h1PkMk

This will make loading at the range really fast

maillemaker · October 14, 2015, 11:30 AM

Here is another, possibly more authentic way of making them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2HUcfAyaaQ

Steve

BlackPowderBen · October 14, 2015, 09:30 PM

very cool Steve, I might try that to be more period correct. But for now I'm going to use the rolling paper method and see how that turns out, I just rolled a few and I'll try them out tommorow

rodwhaincamo · October 15, 2015, 07:10 AM

I used rolling papers too and found it worked very well. It did leave little paper shards in the chambers often, and after a while I decided to see if it would cause issues. I only tried 3 consecutive cylinders but had no problems.

I did buy stump remover to try to make the paper burn completely but it became a bit messy and more tedious and I lost interest. American Spirits papers worked just fine anyway.

BlackPowderBen · October 15, 2015, 09:55 PM

Well I shot about 12 of them today, worked good, the rod I was using to roll the papers around was just a tad to large so I had to break open some of the cartridges, but I got a smaller rod and their coming out great, I'll test some more out tomorrow hopefully

October 14, 2015, 09:28 AM	#1
BlackPowderBen Senior Member Join Date: March 2, 2015 Posts: 380	Combustible Paper Cartridges Do any of you make combustible paper cartridges for you cap and ball revolvers? I'm going to start making them based on this guys video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8CF3h1PkMk This will make loading at the range really fast __________________ "If you have to shoot, shoot! Dont talk"

October 14, 2015, 09:30 PM	#3
BlackPowderBen Senior Member Join Date: March 2, 2015 Posts: 380	very cool Steve, I might try that to be more period correct. But for now I'm going to use the rolling paper method and see how that turns out, I just rolled a few and I'll try them out tommorow __________________ "If you have to shoot, shoot! Dont talk"

October 15, 2015, 09:55 PM	#5
BlackPowderBen Senior Member Join Date: March 2, 2015 Posts: 380	Well I shot about 12 of them today, worked good, the rod I was using to roll the papers around was just a tad to large so I had to break open some of the cartridges, but I got a smaller rod and their coming out great, I'll test some more out tomorrow hopefully __________________ "If you have to shoot, shoot! Dont talk"

October 14, 2015, 11:30 AM	#2
maillemaker Senior Member Join Date: August 30, 2010 Posts: 1,635	Here is another, possibly more authentic way of making them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2HUcfAyaaQ Steve

October 15, 2015, 07:10 AM	#4
rodwhaincamo Senior Member Join Date: July 7, 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 1,246	I used rolling papers too and found it worked very well. It did leave little paper shards in the chambers often, and after a while I decided to see if it would cause issues. I only tried 3 consecutive cylinders but had no problems. I did buy stump remover to try to make the paper burn completely but it became a bit messy and more tedious and I lost interest. American Spirits papers worked just fine anyway.