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Thank you Stephen for the kind words and sharing what you know.

I took a few pictures as I reloaded the next two loads to test, along with a view of the repair to the worm eaten horn butt plate that Bob Phillips did for me. I am glad to be done with the ugly slip on leather cover I was using to protect the remains of the damaged plate. If anyone has any suggestions on methods or materials, please share. I'm making progress but I've a ton to learn.

First, the repaired butt plate


Next, two of the patched Bear Creek Supply 340gr bullets on top of the Excel template used to make cutting the patches go faster.


The patched bullets as they came out of the air fryer, which has a dehydrate function I used to dry these more quickly (not sure about having lead in a cooking device!)


The bottom of some of these patched bullets, showing how far I still have to go in terms of consistency


And finally, the finished product