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That is not true. Have you ever pulled a ball and seen the pattern of the patch imprinted on the the ball? A patch may compress .002 or so. But you do what you want.

I never measure Mine mainly because I have a huge PC of pillow ticking that may last me a life time

All your math is nice but you need to add the patch thickness twice to get the actual size of the patch and ball. Hint the patch is on both sides of the ball

The effect down here actually looks pretty good. About once a year I disassemble everything and then wipe everything down with a coat of lemon juice. This helps smooth out the surface corrosion then rinse with warm water , then oil everything it stays nice and uniform that way

The rules I have seen at big rendezvouses and shoots is the ramrod needs to be of period materials and fit in the ram rods pipes on your gun. You can get brass ramrods that fit most guns. I used to make out of brass tubing to lessen the weight. The tubing ones stayed in the gun all the time.

Down here unless you polish the barrel and keep the gun in a controlled humidity storage you will have a browned barrel soon enough. IT'S going to happen so I decided to like it.

With a smoothbore no way you should have to load it that tight. Are you shooting off a rest?

Lee makes 1 for TOTW

I have bought alot of stuff from Natchez over the years. Good people.

OK I am going to say it. The ROA is basically an in line. So of course it would handle synthetic powder better. By the way Precussion sxs double guns are also basically an inline.

Just haven’t shot enough yet. Keep trying you'll get there

The only way I could sharpen them is I had access to a diamond wheel grinder for sharpening carbide That works good. No to knapping them for me

Hope for a good pattern at 25 yds. I had a 12 GA CVA double cylinder bore and that was the sweet spot for #6 shot. You didn't mention over powder and over shot wads but I assume you would use something

How are you guys doing. I used to have the muzzleloader shop in Mars Hill

I split the over powder cards use half over the powder half over the shot. I have used this for several smooth bores over the years and it always works for me

2 times I have seen the plug screw come out of a gun when fired. The cause was the threads being weakened by loosening and tightening. One inbedded in the hand of the shooter next to the gun that the screw came out of If you are going to be one of the I always do it this way please get a supply...

It is called a clean out screw because chips are cleaned out of the flash channel during manufacturing.

I will save you asking if your pyrodex is slow to ignite get some real black powder

I think other non lead types of shot would be legal. Thinking bismuth or similar

Made some 62 and 54 jags today