Filler In Reduced Loads

[Taevers]

I think every gun is different and you have to find out what works best in your firearm. I have found in my ROA that a reduced load with a cream of wheat filler gives the most accuracy. I like using lubed wads or grease cookies to keep the fouling soft. It may not be historically accurate, but the older I get, the more I want things that make it easier.

Fred,
I’m in your camp. I forgot grits the last two club shoots and I notice hard fowling build up. Swiss 3F. I also incorporate grease cookies. ROA. I get a lil better accuracy and the fouling is completely removed after 10 shots with one dry patch. 18 grains of Swiss 3f, milk carton wad, small scoop of grits, pea size of lube, .457 ball topped. Reminds me. I gotta pistol to clean today!

 

[Taevers]

Fred,
I’m in your camp. I forgot grits the last two club shoots and I notice hard fowling build up. Swiss 3F. I also incorporate grease cookies. ROA. I get a lil better accuracy and the fouling is completely removed after 10 shots with one dry patch. 18 grains of Swiss 3f, milk carton wad, small scoop of grits, pea size of lube, .457 ball topped. Reminds me. I gotta pistol to clean today!

Went and cleaned my shooting iron. Realized I put the card in wrong sequence. Thought this might be better being I was close to my shooting box. Old shooters got their kit figured out. Might help OP or young guys reading my drivel.

 

[Taevers]

I have an 1858 brass frame, what is the consensus on using filler like Cream Of Wheat to fill the chambers? Does it actually improve accuracy? Thanks

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[Johnny Tremain]

I think the rule is that Northerners use Cream of Wheat and Southerners use Grits.

and the Brits use Semolina!

Never have used a cookie. Powder, veggie wad, decron filler and pill.

 

[FredS]

Fred,
I’m in your camp. I forgot grits the last two club shoots and I notice hard fowling build up. Swiss 3F. I also incorporate grease cookies. ROA. I get a lil better accuracy and the fouling is completely removed after 10 shots with one dry patch. 18 grains of Swiss 3f, milk carton wad, small scoop of grits, pea size of lube, .457 ball topped. Reminds me. I gotta pistol to clean today!

What are you using to make your grease cookies?

 

[nkbj]

I think the rule is that Northerners use Cream of Wheat and Southerners use Grits.

Would John Wayne have starred in True Cream Of Wheat?

Kidding aside, corn meal compresses different from cream of wheat and grits and so offers a different way to load that may be useful depending on what bullets one is loading and which piece, each one being liable to like something different. But the corn oil can change the charge over time if it sits around.

 

[Taevers]

What are you using to make your grease cookies?

I rendered a bunch of fat from a mountain goat from Kodiak. It’s the dardest stuff. It has a waxy texture to it about like SPG only harder. I use the stuff straight. I usually pour it out on metal sheet into flat pieces and break it into smaller chunks.

 

[FredS]

I rendered a bunch of fat from a mountain goat from Kodiak. It’s the dardest stuff. It has a waxy texture to it about like SPG only harder. I use the stuff straight. I usually pour it out on metal sheet into flat pieces and break it into smaller chunks.

Interesting, I am using Lamb Tallow and beeswax. I am experimenting with different ratios for different textures depending on the temperatures. I punch out a bunch and dust them with cream of wheat to keep them from sticking together. Have to talk the wife into letting me go on a mountain goat hunt to collect some fat!

 

[Taevers]

Interesting, I am using Lamb Tallow and beeswax. I am experimenting with different ratios for different textures depending on the temperatures. I punch out a bunch and dust them with cream of wheat to keep them from sticking together. Have to talk the wife into letting me go on a mountain goat hunt to collect some fat!

That’s a darn good idea to dust pieces with cream of wheat. Never thought of that. I just luckily have a friend that guides hunters out on Kodiak and packs the whole rib cages out for me. They are prolly fatter than commercial pigs. I got 1/2 gallon of clean tallow off the last one.

 

[Taevers]

That’s a darn good idea to dust pieces with cream of wheat. Never thought of that. I just luckily have a friend that guides hunters out on Kodiak and packs the whole rib cages out for me. They are prolly fatter than commercial pigs. I got 1/2 gallon of clean tallow off the last one.

And barbecued the ribs for dinner

 

[flntlokr]

I've never understood the logic of using an inert filler without an interposing wad. There is no controlling the uneven intermixing of powder and filler except hoping that powder stays put under handling and recoil.

They can't mix if they are compressed in layers. Only if they have room to jiggle around.