Toomuch_36 said:
JPerryE said:
The Lubed patches probably weigh more that the spit patches and thus travel farther. I doubt the patch stuck to the ball.
If weight were the only factor the lubed patches would not have travled as far as the spit patches due to simple gravity pulling them down faster. I think you will find that in the cold weather the patch simply froze to the ball and took longer to blow off, thus adding more wind resistance and altering the flight path of the shot.
Toomuch
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Shoot Flint
IMHO, at the range, I'd be very surprised if a patch would be freezing to a ball between shots during a range session...can't imagine a barrel would get that cold between shots and be that cold for a long enough period of time to do so...seems like the raging inferno against that patch would have a say in whether it was frozen of not too.
IMHO, I also do not believe that gravity plays any part at all in affecting patch separation from a ball as they are both leaving the muzzle at 1500-2000fps...high speed violent wind resistance flares the patch edges back immediately causing the patch to act like a drag chute, and the patch begins separating from the ball.
And lastly, just as a thought, a lot of things can happen during a range session that can go unnoticed causing one to draw conclusions that may not necessarily be the case...for example, I've been in the middle of a 50 shot session with patches landing 15-20 feet out front like normal, then had a breeze pick up in my face causing patches to flutter to the ground just 5-10 feet in front of me...two disctinctly different groupings of patch locations on the ground....and have had a cross wind pick up which caused the patches to start fluttering down way off to the side out of sight into the weeds...and a trailing breeze will cause patches to flutter down further out towards the target, etc
Things aren't always as they might first appear to be...my .02 cents