At a final hands-on range session today before Saturday’s turkey opener, I finished up a couple of normal 2” sticker targets on a paper plate at 30yds, shooting from a seated hunting position.
I had a spare full size turkey target with me, and 7 balls / patches left, decided to shoot it before I left.
Three patches were normal factory Oxyoke prelubed patches I always use.
Four patches were the same except left over from a previous batch I had saturated with Hoppe’s liquid.
I’ve used Oxyoke prelubed patches with Hoppes +BP liquid added for years while shooting PRBs out of rifles at the range, with no significant change in accuracy. But the difference of the 4 slippery wet patches out of the 42” smoothbore barrel today were very surprising.
I had a spare full size turkey target with me, and 7 balls / patches left, decided to shoot it before I left.
Three patches were normal factory Oxyoke prelubed patches I always use.
Four patches were the same except left over from a previous batch I had saturated with Hoppe’s liquid.
I’ve used Oxyoke prelubed patches with Hoppes +BP liquid added for years while shooting PRBs out of rifles at the range, with no significant change in accuracy. But the difference of the 4 slippery wet patches out of the 42” smoothbore barrel today were very surprising.