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Confederate Gardner paper cartridge

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nothernug	Confederate Gardner paper cartridge	Lead	[-]
Posts: 13338 Aug 4 11 7:41 PM Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tags : None Perhaps the simplest type of paper musket cartridge manufactured during the Civil war would have been the Confederate Gardner cartridge. This had a paper tube joined directly to the base of the bullet and once the tail was torn off the whole affair was stuffed down the bore. An excellent idea hampered by poor quality. hollows in the cast bullets nose tended to blow out or cause the bullet to tumble. The whole thing was abandoned by the Confederates late in the war. More on this one in a separate topic. Here's an in depth link on the subject... http://www.baymediapro.com/gardner_machine.pdf If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen. Sam Adams Last Edited By: nothernug Aug 4 11 7:55 PM. Edited 1 time.
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nothernug		#1	[-]
Posts: 13338 Aug 18 11 12:14 PM Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	As it happens, I have been making some similar "cartridges" my own self. I discovered a box filled with paper blanks from my re-enacting days and have been gluing them into some Minie' Ball bases. But, considering the revelation (to me at least) of actual paper cartridge construction, I'll just use them in rolling some more nearly correct cartridges. I'll post a few pics when I have some more made up. If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen. Sam Adams
AZshooter		#2	[-]
Posts: 701 Feb 19 12 2:38 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Back in the early 70's I got a Gallagher breechloading rifle. Not content with roundballs & the "cartridge" it used, I cast a bunch of Minie balls & tied on tapered paper tubes made from nitrated cigarette paper. I got plenty of hangfires & misfires when the fire from the cap didn't make it thru the bottom fold on the paper ctg. Seems it would work best on muzzleloaders & cap & ball revolvers, either by tearing off a folded-over base (as written accounts indicate were the proper procedure), or stuffing the whole thing down a bore, whereby the paper ctg would crush & spill open when rammed home, impacting against the face of the breechplug. I also just discovered a bunch I made for a single-shot pistol, but never used. Nitrated cig paper rolled around a tapered dowel & folded over on both ends. They're stored in the old plastic tubes from Polaroid film - the black & white pictures were coated with some stuff on a saturated wiper that were stowed in these plastic tubes with tight-fitting lids (another artifact on an obsolete technology). Nothing is foolproof to a talented fool.

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