Went to the range today and let loose about 50 shots through my Bess with paper cartridge and another 20 or so through my Kentucky 50, patches saturated with TC17 (basically blue bore butter, nearly exactly the same)
I'm kicking myself because I failed to get any decent footage or retrieve my patches. The range was busy, and we were in a hurry more or less so I didn't have time to set up a camera or wait for the range to clear to grab my spent patches...
Things I noticed immediately. With bore butter on the patches I didn't notice any significant fouling and loading remained consistently smooth in the rifle. Dry patches are next in my routine but the lubed ones weren't a problem.
I noticed a more pronounced ignition delay in the Kentucky than the Bess. I'm going to attribute this to the patent-style breech (it funnels down to a narrow channel at the back, where the powder is ignited by the touch-hole). The Bess was your typical ka-BOOM. The Kentucky was making more of a click-FZZZZ-BOOM.... I hope you can all appreciate my wording
Now that I have 60+ lubed patches I want to get some 3F Goex and see if I notice a HUGE difference.
The Bess fired reliably as always. If the pan went off, she went boom. I have maybe~ 1 instance where the pan DID go off and nothing... the touch hole just needed some clearing.
Here's the strange thing. Loading paper cartridges with a .70 RB and 90 grains of APP, after 6~ shots, there was black sludge in the barrel..! Glue from the paper? Newsprint causing me issues? The rifle had no such fowling. I'll switch paper and see what's happening...
