Excessive Fouling

[Cpt Flint]

11Bushbeater, you must be from West Texas. People from east Texas can’t shoot like that.

 

[ohio ramrod]

I find that an over powder wad before the patched round ball prevents blow by and the need for swabbing between shots. As well as preventing the patch lube from wetting the powder when out hunting for long periods. A simple test is to just wad a patch up and place it over the powder.

 

[Griz44Mag]

Only 1 or 2?

yup -
Irish whiskey from a beer stein - I'm of German descent....We don't waste time with those English size pint size samplers.....

 

[French Colonial]

So.........Maybe I am just the luckiest guy in the game.

As you all are aware I am a firm believer in spit patches, but, in the interest of furthering my understanding of this fouling issue I dug around in my ancient pile of junk and dug out some probably 15-20 year old Ox-Yoke lubed patches that were the correct thickness for my John Schreit rifle and then I lubed up a bunch of dry patches with Ballistol for my Jaeger rifle and off to the range we went on this beautiful morning.

I shot probably 20 shots through both rifles with no fouling issues whatever. I was blowing down the barrel after each shot and the only anomaly was both rifles seemed to shoot a little higher on the target than normal, not a lot but just a little. No short starter.

Another thing I noticed was using the Ox-Yoke patches after the 6th or 7th shot it actually got easier to shove the ball down, I attribute this to the barrel getting warm and possibly lowering the viscosity of the lube on the patches.

Nothing scientific here but I might try some patches with different lube on them....Now what to try next, mink oil?

 

[Pete G]

Swabbing between shots will get you scalped

 

[Griz44Mag]

Swabbing between shots will get you scalped

Unless your are Tonto and the Lone Ranger - surrounded by 5,000 red warriors
"Uh who? We! - white man?