patched loads for 1895 marlin CB

[Four Fingers of Death]

Paul Mathew's book, "The Paper Jacket" is very much worth a read. He has worked extensively with the Marlin lever gun in 45/70 and paper patched bullets. He is a serious deer hunter and just LOVES paper patched bullets. It is a Wolfe Publishing Book.

Dale53

Sheeeooooooooooooot!

What an interesting lot of books, like I have said before with you guys along for the ride, I'm destined to die poor.

[Dale53]

4fingermick;
>>>you guys along for the ride, I'm destined to die poor.<<<

Yeah, but with a smile on your face

Dale53

[Nrut]

This is from one of Walt Melanders PP designs. It has become my favorite for PP. Its fired at 100 yards from a Marlin pree micro groove 45/70 with apiture sight. I use 100% cotton fiber resume paper. I like about a 30/1 alloy or 7 to 8 BHN for game. I have taken grizzly bear, moose , and caribou with it. I have two recovered boolits from game and both are perfect clasic mushroom.
I like to run the patched boolit through a .460" die to press on the patch and also apply a film of lube to the entire surface and what ammounts to a lube wad that holds the tail folds together.
BIC/BS

Bullshop...that load looks like one that I should try for the centeral interior here in B.C. ....would mind posting the load particulars as I can't make them out on the target?...thanks mic

[MikeG]

I already covered this in another thread, but you may have missed it.

I used plummer's tape on a 300 Win Mag load. The pic on the left are 200 grain loads at around 2400 fps, around 7" group. The pic on the right is the same load using plummer's and around a 1.5" group. Both shot at 100 yards.

By the way, I have never had to use anything but Lee Alox lube on the 45/70 and got great groups at every velocity using a Marlin 1895. I have also used the plummer's tape on a 30/30 load with good results.

Plummers tape is much easier than paper patching; I just wrap the bullets with 2 layers.

Mike G.

[hdj2520]

Contact Veral Smith of L.B.T. custom moulds . I have one of his moulds for the
Marlin " M" bullet, basically a lfn 400 grain that you patch using computer labels.
You can cast them hard,load them fast and do damage at both ends.
Greybeardoutdoors has a forum just for Veral .

[pdawg_shooter]

After five years of trying I have finally found THE load for my Marlin 1895g. Does everything I want done and is still shootable. I started with new Remington brass, annealed the first ¾ inch using the melted lead method, belled with a Lee expander and primed with CCI 200. The powder charge is 52gr AA 2495. I started with 48 and worked up with no signs of pressure. This is a compressed load, even using a 16 inch drop tube. The magic bullet is cast in a Lyman 451114 mould. The alloy is 17 parts pure lead, 2 ½ parts linotype, and ½ part tin. The bullet drops from the mould .451, 430gr and is ready for patching. I make my patches from 16lb green bar computer paper, cut 2.750 long on a 60* angle 1.500 high. I dip in water and wrap twice around the bullet. They are left to dry overnight, then lubed with LLA. The next day the tails are clipped and the bullet is run through a .459 Lee sizing die. I seat them to an OCL of 2.580. These shoot clover leaf groups at 25 yards and into 1.75 at 100. This is with a Lyman 66 rear sight and factory front sight. Not bad for 55 year old eyes. Bullet performance on game is all one could ask for. I’ll not quit experimenting, but how does one improve on perfection?