Is the rifle factory, or a barrel swap out? Never seen an Investarm in .36 cal.
Investarms Santa Fe .36 Range Update!
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Factory. Take a look at their website. Pretty decent rifle.
Doesnt show on the Investarm site, but Muzzleloaders.com has them in kit and built form. I had a couple of that model years ago in .50 and .54, they were good shooters.
Leadriver,
I fought that same battle years ago with .32 Dixie Southern Mountain Rifle. I could not make it shoot well after the first or second shot. I did most of the things you did to try to figure it out. The lube changes and patch thickness, all of that. The trouble with some small caliber rifles is the fouling builds up so quick that pressures change and point of impact goes all over. Just like you, I settled on swabbing the bore every two shots max when Rock Chuck hunting and was successful. My little rifle just will not shoot a string of accurate shots like my larger caliber rifles will without swabbing the barrel.
Old Shepherd
I fought that same battle years ago with .32 Dixie Southern Mountain Rifle. I could not make it shoot well after the first or second shot. I did most of the things you did to try to figure it out. The lube changes and patch thickness, all of that. The trouble with some small caliber rifles is the fouling builds up so quick that pressures change and point of impact goes all over. Just like you, I settled on swabbing the bore every two shots max when Rock Chuck hunting and was successful. My little rifle just will not shoot a string of accurate shots like my larger caliber rifles will without swabbing the barrel.
Old Shepherd
Mike in FL
50 Cal.
Consistency. If fouling builds while shooting (and it does,) then without cleaning, consistency goes out the window. If we can shoot a particular plural number of times without cleaning and we actually do that, we can't say we are being consistent. The most we can say is that we can load and shoot just fine without being consistent. No muzzleloading authority will advise us to not be consistent. Just semantics? Me, I've been swabbing between shots since the very beginning, except maybe when needing to move immediately after firing but I can't remember such an occasion. M/Ling to me is a very non-tactical activity but I know that some arranged shoots might involve immulation historical battles. I mean time spent swabbing for me, likely feeds my OCD I have related to shooting consistency, just like end of session cleaning. I can't be finished until that last white patch comes out as clean as it went in.
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