thats a good tip Aloysius!.
I will try it for sure!..
How well would the cartridge last?
Would the oil in the card have effect on the powder?


and oh by the way, welcome..
One thing Belgians do very well is brewing beers.
I love Belgian beers!! I'll take a cool mug any time

A few places you can check out.

www.go2gbo.com/forums/...board=47.0

www.castbulletassoc.or....php?id=60

www.buffaloarms.com/br...,2065.html

If you are at all concerned that the lube in the card would contaminate the powder Gelan...put GLAD Wrap on the bottom of the card before you punch out the discs. This should stop any powder from sticking to the lube soaked card and not igniting.

Having said that mate...I would be extremely surprised if the lube contaminated the powder...it is waxy, not greasy so it won't soak into the powder mate.

Cheers, Vince

Or you use 2 cards, 1 non-lubed under the lubed one. I even think that when you put the lubed beercard on top of the non-lubed before you start punching, both will stick together. So you'll have a bi-card and you can put the non treated side to the powder.
I don't have much experience with paper patched bullet because I feared the technical problems: first you need an undersized mould (or un undersized sizing die) and second I'm rather sure that your patches will be ruined while making the load or in the barrel. And with BP patched roundball shooting, the ball is separated from the patch as soon as it leaves the barrel, but when parts of a patch or coating remain unevently distributed sticked on the bullet, it has to effect it's accuracy.
So for this reasons + because I had very good results in the Parker Hale muzzle loader where they prescribe to use the lubed beercard under the conical + I met several problems when shooting cupper-coated bullets (because the coating was cut while seating the bullet?) + beercards are cheap and it's easier to make such a lubed seal than a decent paper patch + it's fun hunting for beercards
so I took the road away from the paper patched bullet.

And I would suggest to go for a hard lead bullet with a lot of weight and keep speed somewhat lower than 1500 fps. With lead bullets, don't try to get extra energy by increasing speed or you might get a lot of energy but no accuracy.

And yes, we have a lot of excellent beers and the best one is without any doubt West-Vleteren, but the monks produce so little that there is a waiting list just to obtain 1 crate.
Also our government made drinking so expensive that we drive to Czech Republic and drink it overthere. That's why the czech are the biggest beerdrinkers in the world... only they don't drink it themselves, the descendants of Asterix and Obelix do