Favorite Hunting Gun, Load, Cal. Etc.??

[RussB]

Roundball....Range Report using your method.

I fired somewhere in the neighborhood of 140 shots yesterday. An all day job, to be sure. I was still cleaning guns at 9pm last night, and that's past me bed time!
Using your method, I managed no fewer than 8 shots between cleanings. One particular string was 19 (in a .54 cal.)before curosity got the best of me, and I cleaned just to see what was happening.
I have to say, in all fairness...Your method works better than anything I've ever tried up to this point! Peroid!

I think the next time I'm out I will try for a "string", just to see how far this method will go before I can no longer get a ball down the barrel.
I have to admit I am one who has stayed with homemade lubes because I felt they were superior to the factory "Natural lubes" that received a lot of press several years back. At the same time I was also hearing from others that I was headed for some unimagineable disaster by putting this stuff down the bore of my rifles. Apparently I choose the wrong people to listen to.
I have used NL1000 in the past to lube patches with, by rubbing the patch and lube between my fingers....it worked okay. However, It still required frequent cleanings.
I'm quite sure I do not understand the science behind this, but it appears that using your "system" of a pre bore treatment, and perhaps the wad, permits much longer strings of shots than just a dry patch to remove the oil, then loading the normal PRB.
I only used about 30+ Ox-Yoke wads in the .54, the rest were simple PRB's.
Thanks for a good tip! I need to work on this a bit, I'm sure. And even more important, I also need to re-think the whole mess again. I've often heard it's the journey, not the destination, that counts most in life. Perhaps that's how it should be.
Russ

 

[brushbuster]

I have a t/chawken w/a 1:48 twist.my favorite conical load is 90 gr. with a 385gr great plains bullet .
it has a shallow hollow point with a hollow base,and it loads easy whether in prelubed form or bore buttered.
i myself prefer the bore butter.


give it a try :m2c: :thumbsup:

 

[RussB]

RussB: Ya mean ya learnt sumpin? If an antique like you kin larn sumpin' thars's hope fer a antique like me!
NO FORTY-FIVE???????? :what: :what:
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-gads man! Fix 'at righawayquick !!!!!

Maxi...How does a Rigby sound to ya, my friend?
Saving ALL my nickles right now. Have plans to build a LRML by the first of the year. A .451 with a 1:21 twist in a 34", with full 1" bbl. and English Half-Stock (Maple) from Pecatonica. Soule MR sights, with front bubble.

Do you remember David R, from the old shooters board? Well, the boy done "talked" me out of my old .45 a few years back. Still owes me few nickles too, I might add. He was good boy, probably still is, he'll get around to me when he gets his act together.
As far as "larning sumpin"? Yep! shore did! A bunch too. That roundball feller has all his little duckies in one straight line...a long straight line at that! It doesn't hurt to pay attention to some of these fellers, they seem to knoweth what they sayeth....and that's always welcome.
Russ

 

[roundball]

That's good to hear...and your right, that's a lot of shooting and work in one day...I used to shoot 50 per range trip but found I got tired the last several shots and would start getting sloppy, so I dropped back to 40 and that seems to be a good satisfactory trip for me.

And I don't profess to understand all this at the "molecular level" either...I just followed the basics in the owner's manual ever since I got started and never questioned it...it was simple:

1) Never use oil/petroleum in the bore (causes fouling)
2) Hot soapy water, brush, & rinse every time
3) Use NL1000 heavily at all other times

In addition to the thicker .018" pillow ticking patches tightening up my groups a little, they seem to hold more NL1000 than the thinner .015" plain cotton patches which I think is an added benefit.

It's worked so well for me there's been no incentive to even try anything else.

 

[tcsmokepole]

I use 100 grs. of Goex 2F and a 570 roundball with a .10 patch in my renegade flinter. I use 120 grs. of Goex 2F with a 570 roundball and a .10 patch in my renegade percussion. I've only shot deer with these rifles and loads and it puts their lights out right now.