corn meal

[Bushwhacker]

Yep, that there Viagra could keep him workin' overtime

WAUGHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh More powder Do they come in different calibers :crackup: :crackup: :results: :redthumb:

 

[Bushwhacker]

Ya mean he makes condoms? :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: Yep, that there Viagra could keep him workin' overtime then. ::

More powder..WAUGHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :crackup: :redthumb:

 

[Bushwhacker]

Ya mean he makes condoms? :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: Yep, that there Viagra could keep him workin' overtime then. ::

MORE POWDER WAUGHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :haha:

 

[JackAubrey]

I tried it in my 1860 army ONCE many years ago.While it did work I made a bloody mess spilling it everywhere.I saw nothing to indicate it cleaned my bore and after switching to wonder wads I have never gone back.It is true you want the bullet as close to the rifling as possible but loading full and a wonder wad is perfectly adequate.Most often you hear about cornmeal from match target shooters who use reduced loads and must fill up the remaining cylinder space.My advice,use wonder wads and keep the cornmeal in the skillet.

 

[makensmoke]

I have used cream of wheat in my 36 navy. It was not any slower than using a stack of wonderwads and after the shots it didn't seem to make any more of a mess. It does work out to be cheeper to shoot. I used an adjustable measure to figure out how much I was using and then cut off the end of a spare spout to match. You load your cream of wheat into a flask an away you go....just don't mix up the flasks and overload the BP. What a way to ruin your day!

In the 36 it did improve my groups with the ball closer to the end of the cylinder.

Have fun,
makensmoke

 

[Bushwhacker]

... Hey speakin' of OLD timers, haven't heard anything from Musket Man lately. Anyone know why?

He runs a mill at a rubber factory.

Do they come in different calibers?? :haha: Mine's a 62 cal. smoothbore :haha:
More powder :redthumb:

 

[Rat]

Some old shooters are just using, and promoting old bad habits. I think using corn-meal fillers is totally useless.

A wad is 100% superior...any gains in accuracy using corn meal would be realized by using a wad.

In some cartridge guns, the bullet being closer to the end of the cylinder will help keep the bullet straight when entering the rifling, especially if the chamber dimensions are "generous". A round ball does not act the same, and is already a zero-clearance fit in the chamber.

And, it's not always true in every instance. I have a cartridge revolver, with a spare cylinder chambered for a very short cartridge. There is almost a full inch of "freebore". That cylinder shoots MORE accurately than the standard cylinder, with the standard cartridge and bullet close to the cylinder face.

No offense anyone, but the whole corn meal thing is nonsense. The only place it makes sense is where the load is so light that the rammer won't seat the ball. Any other claim don't add up to DOOODLY SQUAT!!!

:curse:

Rat

 

[mewing6003]

When I used to shoot in the NSSA, most of the old timers would load enough corn meal or cream of wheat on top of the powder to get the ball to seat just below the lip of the cylinder.

In using these loads, they would load only one cylinder at a time. If they loaded 5, at least one ball would creep forward and jam the whole works! Thats something I learned myself when trying this.

They claimed that they had found the "perfect" (read reduced) load for their revolver and that the bullet absolutely had to be seated as close to the lip of the cylinder as possible for accuracy.

I quit using filler after a few times and lo and behold, my accuracy did not suffer! And yes I even seated the ball over a dreaded wonder wad, and commited the sacrilege of seating the ball way down in the cylinder too! Seems my scores were identical without all of the voodoo!

:results: :redthumb:

 

[Russ T Frizzen]

My favorite cylinder filler is fffg black powder. It eliminates a loading step (the wad or cream of wheat or corn meal), makes a bigger bang, a bigger flash, shoots to the revolvers sights and is, in general, lots more fun. I suppose if I were involved in some kind of contest where low velocity was required, like Cowboy Action shooting or somethig akin to it I would have to extend my rammers or use the old technique of seating the ball with the rammer and then placing a smaller ball on the seated ball and reramming. Nah, too much like work. I believe I'll just keep using them the way Sam Colt intended. There's nothing like touching off a fully loaded Walker on a frosty morning.
Or any other time, come to think of it.

 

[Slamfire]

A cup'o corn meal, plus a cup'o all purpose flour and a leetle water'n oil will give you the makin's for a hoe cake. That'll help pass the time it takes the meal to clean yore barrell. :results:

 

[Russ T Frizzen]

A little butter and a cup of coffee would make life just about perfect.

 

[bart_anastasi]

Way back when I was told to put corn meal between the ball and powder on my Ruger 44 cap and ball revolver and CRISCO over the top to stop the possibility of Chain fire in the cylinders.

Always came off the line thinking of breakfast and corn muffins and could never remember why until just now.

Thank for the walk down memory lane.

 

[jim gray]

Thanks lehigh_county,

I think you're talkin' about cream of wheat. Now that you mention it, he did say something about that working if corn meal wasn't availabe.

What you described sure sounds sensible for shooting light loads, and seeing as my forty-four is a second model dragoon, I probably couldn't even come close to seating a ball properly on a 15 or 20 grain charge.

I still don't know about corn meal in a muzzleloading rifle though, sounds like somebody got the details confused.

 

[Rat]

Instead of trying to use a .45 to make Hoe cakes in the cylinder, and fire moon-maid, weak sister micro loads...why not just get a Remington Navy, .36 calibre, in which 15-20 grains is a normal load?

To tell you the truth I'm not really understanding the reason for shooting such mini-loads in a .45 cap-n-ball.

Rat

 

[muzzman]

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Muzzman,.... "BE NICE"!! :curse: :m2c:

rollingb

 

[horkeye]

To tell you the truth I'm not really understanding the reason for shooting such mini-loads in a .45 cap-n-ball. Rat

For Precision target shooting comps you simply do not need to stoke up the chambers with BP; around 15gns 3F is all that is required, but I imagine it may be more spectular to stoke 'er up!
Jim. :thumbsup:

 

[Slamfire]

Somebody step on muzzman's toe, he'll hurt hisself havin' a fit like that. :nono:

 

[Snuffy]

Enough cornmeal removes leading outa that smoking pipe. Never had that problem thou, but some folks usin weak patches may catch it.

 

[jim gray]

....around 15gns 3F is all that is required, but I imagine it may be more spectular to stoke 'er up!

I generally avoid light loads. I had a ball bounce off the end of a log and come flying back in my direction. So I would recommend caution in employing light loads from C&B revolvers and possibly other types of MLs.