Bear Grease Shoot

[HuntAway]

After the lackluster results yesterday with the 50's I took the .54 out for a shoot.

I had an old shirt hanging in the closet and thought to myself. Hmmmm patches.....

So I cut a couple strips off it and got the bear grease out of the freezer. I lubed up the material and headed for the pit.

The patch .014/ ball .535 combiination loaded easily.
Set up a target at 30 yds and fired my first shot from a clean barrel. I didn't even swab the oil out of it.

Happy with those results I moved the target out to 50 yds let another 5 shots go.

This is looking promising.

The patches survived but I don't think they will take any more powder. The white patch was a cleaning patch that I ran down after I was done shooting. I did not swab at all today. There was hardly any fouling. I think I'm going to like this bear grease thing.

HA

 

[rabjr]

That second target for me would be a bad day at 50 yards with any of my .54s or my .58. Thats perfectly acceptable for a lot of guys though. What are you looking for in a load? You looking for an easy loading multi shot load? You trying to hunt without a ball starter? I wouldn't even think of using that thin of a patch through mine. My load of 90gr of 3F with .530 ball in a .022 bear greased patch will cloverleaf at 50 yards. Same with my load of 90gr of 3F with .570 ball and .022 bear greased patch.

 

[BrownBear]

I'm betting a little thicker fabric will hold the patch together better, and shrink the group even further whether or not you want to drive the ball faster.

 

[HuntAway]

I shot those patches just because I wanted to try something different. I have some .018 blue stripe pillow tick to use as well. I agree about the group size as I would like it tighter than that as well. I need to get some .530 ball as well.

I'm a work in progress. :wink:

HA