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Good question...I never really paid it any attention and alternate rifles & smoothbores with PRBs often enough that I can't state factually one way or the other so I won't. If I had to 'guess', I'd guess rifling would break it up...

FYI...as I'd mentioned, its not uncommon for me to pull a PRB then blow out the powder charge with my air compressor to find a "powder pellet" as a result. Just unloaded / reloaded my 28ga Early Virginia for tomorrow's Turkey hunt and this is the 90grn Goex 3F pellet that popped into the trash...

Remembering the old saying that “a picture is worth 1000 words”, here’s a photo of an old plug as an illustration of how simple it is to clean the kind of Patent Breeches that have been in use since at least 1970”¦right at a half century now”¦by manufacturing companies like Green Mountain...

Amen...2012 when I was prepping to run range tests with 'oldnamvet's custom .40cal x 200grn REAL conical, I loaded one in the garage and handled, moved around, shook the Late Lancaster up and down for a minute, then checked to find the conical halfway up he bore. So I then experimented with some...

It’s interesting that your position on the reliability of 1900’s style Patent Breech is not based on years and years of your own personal hands on experience with multiple Flintlocks having 1900's style Patent Breeches...but based upon a couple guys who you witnessed had problems...which you...

For whatever this might be worth, I'll at least share my experiences with them in a different caliber. When I first started with a .45cal T/C Hawken, I wanted a heavier projectile for deer hunting as I had no experience at that time with round balls. And because of seeing many posts about the...

Again, attention to reading comprehension will clarify: 22 years of actually using 1900's style Patent Breech plugs. I deal with facts...not Google searches and keyboard opinions / theory for my answers.

LOL...it's obvious you have zero first hand knowledge of the 1900's design Patent Breeches...if you did you wouldn't even think about making such a claim. As has already been stated by people who actually use them / know about them first hand, the actual facts are opposite of such a claim. I...

:grin: I think its called actual hands on experience...

That's gettin' it done Spence ! :thumbsup:

LOL...I think this thread could benefit from some real life hands on experience actually using the modern day modified design of a so called 'Patent Breech'. Personally used them in several T/C caplocks, then several T/C Flintlocks, in several calibers and gauges, with T/C and GM barrels...

Pletch / Marmotslayer, I agree as well...powder pellets absolutely can be created from seating pressure. Before coming out of the woods in the dark after a hunt I simply brush out the pan, re-tape the vent with the tape I put on when I left the house, and wait until I get home to unload it...

Technically speaking, it's not as fast, but whatever works for anyone is great. Myself, other then running side x side 3F vs. 4F tests at the range I've never seen a need to bother with 3F for prime. Only prime I've used for 15+ of hunting has been Goex 4F...I just refresh every now & then and...

Fantastic Skychief, congratulations ! :thumbsup:

1) My round bottom groove barrels are from Rice and Rayl, about as good as they come and they were both noticeably "roomier"...had to go to a much thicker patch; 2) Got a 10 yard bolt of it from Jo-Ann Fabric...assumed it was blue striped pillow ticking...don't know if it was actually called...

Most of the snug resistance seating a ball in a .010" square groove barrel comes from all the extra folds of patch material having t be compressed / jammed down into the groove space. Round bottom groove barrels have much deeper grooves...for example mine are .016" deep...so there's an...

http://www.rmcoxyoke.com/inc/sdetail/cap_and_spout_for_new_plastic_goex_powder_can/6552/8944

As one reference, I used .018" pillow ticking in all my square bottom groove barrels. When I replaced them all with round bottom groove barrels, I had to go to .028" pillow ticking patches

One of the best decisions I made 15+ years ago was to order a bulk shipment of 1000 3/4" x 7/8" Tom Fuller black English flints, directly from Tom for $.69 each + shipping

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