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The "dry" patching method by Dutch S. is for getting an exact amount of lube on every patch. Ballistol sprayed on a patch would not need to set out to dry because there's nothing that will evaporate. The drying part refers to mixing Ballistol with water, in a specific ratio such as 6 parts...

A new method I hadn't considered. For reliable RB expansion, shoot through a tree first! :D Congrats on the deer Anvilboy!

Hot, soapy water method for me. Too easy and fast to try any other way. Cleans bore, flash channel, nipple threads, and patent breech if so equipped, all in one go and then dries quickly too. The hot water heating up the barrel easily dissolves lubes and likely some leading as well. I'm...

Very true. He has since given his resignation notice. I hear he has an invention idea and is going to have a go at marketing it. No idea what his invention idea is yet.

https://www.tcarms.com/pdfs/uploads/manuals/Hawken_Manual.pdf Here is a link to the TC manual. It will list the things needed to "get started".

That brown residue is just really dried out Bore Butter. I'm a big fan of Barricade for a rust preventative. It doesn't take much of it, just a light coating. It dries to a rust preventative film. It can even be left in the bore and go straight to shooting if you want, but I do notice that...

Every time I walk into a local store that normally carries them I have looked. I have not seen any on the shelf for a good two years now. I just opened a new tin, so I have one just opened and one more spare left. Getting a bit tight. Hoping they show up here real soon. I live where...

I swab every shot and have had this problem with my TC too. The patch and jag combo is too thick, so it is pushing fouling down into the patent breech and blocking the flame channel. Most just pop a cap after swabbing, while pointing the barrel at a leaf or dry patch they've put on the...

I had the exact same problem with a CVA Mountain Rifle. It was a kit put together by my wife's grandpa. He did it mainly for the fun of it and then it was hung on the wall and never fired. He gave it to his son-in-law, who then noticed it wasn't working right and he brought it to me since they...

What having the hammer at half cock mainly does is help to more easily pack your flame channel with powder. Think about the difference. Nipple down, the air trapped in the bore from pushing a PRB down can't escape very quickly, almost creating an air lock type of resistance. Hammer off the...

I worked for CCI. They are ISO certified and take quality very seriously. Every single part they make is traceable to the day it was made, what line, and what employees were working that line. Same with the components that made the parts. Samples are taken frequently and sent to their QA...

This is exactly what I'd do.

This thread is a year old. OP has not been on the site since October 29 of last year. I would wager it was his swabbing method. A dry patch for swabbing does nothing to soften fouling. Just compacts it tightly between the jag/patch and bore walls, to the point that the excess is just scraped...

He means compressed. He likely measured them with calipers or a c-mic and found that they were .015" without compressing the patch material, but squeezing (smashing) the calipers or c-mic together with a lot of pressure showed the patch material would compress down to .008" thickness...like...

Idaholewis's suggestion of half a cottonball is not for sealing the barrel, the skirt of a hollow base bullet does that. He is talking about protecting the base of the bullet from being melted or deformed. The base of a bullet determines how well it will fly or be "steered". Imagine if one...

I have tried both ballistol / water and castor oil / denatured alcohol to make pre-cut "dry lube" patches. I tried several ratios, 6:1 was best in my rifle for both types. I got better groups with castor oil / denatured alcohol than I did Ballistol / water, for whatever reason. I've tried...

This is Idaholewis's concoction if I'm not mistaken. The synthetic Stihl 2 stroke oil freaks most people out, but he had zero issues with it and in fact swore by it for not letting the bore lead up.

Yes sir, I did see that with them. They start hard, but then once the rifling engages them, they get pretty easy to push down by the time you seat them on the powder. I leave my rifle loaded during hunting season and always checked them at the beginning of a hunt and at the end. I only caught...

Most that shoot a lot of conicals say that the 1:48 shallow groove TC's prefer one that is fairly short in length, no more than 1" or so. You don't say what caliber you have but if it's a .50, Hornady Great Plains Bullets generally shoot really well in a T.C. Hornady stopped making them in all...

This has been my exact experience between Goex and Schuetzen. With a 50 yard zero I can readily switch between the two powders with no sight change. I'd also give a very slight nod to Schuetzen for a bit less fouling residue.