Gruel dear boy. Porridge is too rich for their little stomachs what with the butter and salt.

Double their ration of Red Bull

I believe you mean “gruel”!!!

He dose a great job

Thanks Derecq - that's a great idea. I've found that occasionally I might put in just a little too much "cream of wheat" (or semolina in the UK) and the overall length is just a tad too long. Using the packing peanuts I imagine the bullet would just compress down into the cartridge a little more on loading and solve that problem. You've made my day. THANK YOU!

Anyone so grossly negligent or incompetent as to bring loaded cartridges to a reenactment, and then actually load one (which involves removing the bullet from the paper, putting it into the muzzle, and ramming it down, without noticing that it’s a piece of lead instead of packing foam), is not just being “unsafe,” but criminally deliberate.

@@papercartridges6705 Quite true, my mistake! I'm not a black powder shooter. I forgot it is muzzleloader! I will delete the post after you see this as it was posted without thinking it through! Sorry!

A lot of events don't allow ramming; however, for smaller events, you can, and yes, you would ram the whole wad of paper down.

They can be rammed, but because it’s just foam, they’re tricky to extricate from the paper… if I’m at an event that allows me to ram, I stick down the whole front piece of the cartridge (paper and all). Most mainstream events will throw fits if you ram anything down the barrel during a reenactment, though.

@@papercartridges6705what happens to the packing peanut? Does it just disintegrate or burn?

Builds character.

No specific color, just plain paper. US provided 12 caps and the CS usually added a few more because theirs were unreliable.

It usually does soak into the paper a bit. Cartridges sitting in storage often have grease stains. They still work as long as all the lube hasn’t totally melted off the bullets

Yep just stick a lubricated bullet in there, everything else is the same.

I make it

Make sure you get painters masking paper, and not the heavier “Kraft” paper which is a real struggle to tear! Sometimes even the masking paper can be tough but it’s a whole lot better than the Kraft paper.

Bulleit. I’m very introverted so before talking into a camera for 30 minutes, a little of the Dutch courage helps loosen up the gears in the brain.

@@papercartridges6705 Thought the bottle had a familiar shape :)

IMA raps their firearms in a very nice paper that works quite well. When I run out, I just order another gun.

Silly question, do you lubricate the whole paper?

@@richardwhite7336 No. This isn't an Enfield (aka "Pritchett") cartridge where the powder cylinder gets snapped off at the muzzle and the lubricated part surrounding the bullet goes down the bore with the bullet, forming a paper patch around it. This is the American cartridge where the cartridge is nothing more than a convenient envelope in which to carry a measured powder charge and the bullet. Once you've poured in the powder, the bullet is taken entirely out of the paper and inserted naked into the muzzle, all of the paper being thrown away. The bullet itself is pre-lubricated in the Tamisier grooves, but not the paper. Making the Enfield cartridge is a much more precise affair requiring the correct type and thickness of paper. For this cartridge, any old paper will do the job.

Perfect timing! We are taking applications. We are short of orphans ever since that last round of cholera.

You completely misunderstand how these rounds work. To load a musket with a real bullet, you have to take the bullet out of the paper and stick it into the muzzle. It weighs an ounce. There is absolutely no conceivable way somebody could mistake a piece of styrofoam for a heavy piece of metal. They don’t look or feel anything alike.

@@papercartridges6705 blanks and live rounds don't look anything alike, it still happens. I understand perfectly how they work and I understand the desire to be as close to authentic as possible and accidents happening may be acceptable in the US but in other parts of the world absolutely not. That gets under my skin btw because injuries and deaths are acceptable in motor sports , rock climbing and sky diving but accidents with firearms the authorities seem to pay particular attention.

@@Irishshootingchannel Um, what?

@@henryfurgason8626 what part are you not understanding