Golden Child
32 Cal
Thanks all for the tips! And yes, that's a great pic. I feel like "minute of deer" is a pretty universally understood term. Not enough people use "minute of dumptruck".
So SDSmlf, you wet the patch that the roundball is sitting in, and put that against the powder? I'm not doubting, but it seems counter intuitive. (Cleaning patch and ball patch are both called patches... just wanna make sure I'm understanding correctly.) Do you do this while hunting too when it may be 8 hours til its shot? Or just at the range when it's seconds or minutes tops.
rafterrob: I'm not sure how I settled on brushing and swabbing with a dry patch, ill try the wet swab and ditch the brushing at the range.
Recurvebill: although It did come with a 70's paper can of Pyro RS, this is new stock in plastic cans. No date on it, but I bought it last year from midway. Stored in a dry environment in my gunroom. I'm hoping to be building my own bp by next year, but I'm certainly not gonna go down that tunnel until I can get some form of consistency.
Again acknowledging that bp and smokeless are miles apart: should my barrel be free floating after the underlug on the Hawken? I'm wondering if something swelled causing my wedge to fit tighter and maybe be putting pressure on the barrel somewhere.
Between running steel wool in my barrel, wet swab instead of dry swab between shots, checking torque on my rear sight and potentially wet patching my ball instead of lube patch, and floating if needed (I assume yes) I have one heck of a good start (and a fair bit of work ahead of me). Thanks again!
So SDSmlf, you wet the patch that the roundball is sitting in, and put that against the powder? I'm not doubting, but it seems counter intuitive. (Cleaning patch and ball patch are both called patches... just wanna make sure I'm understanding correctly.) Do you do this while hunting too when it may be 8 hours til its shot? Or just at the range when it's seconds or minutes tops.
rafterrob: I'm not sure how I settled on brushing and swabbing with a dry patch, ill try the wet swab and ditch the brushing at the range.
Recurvebill: although It did come with a 70's paper can of Pyro RS, this is new stock in plastic cans. No date on it, but I bought it last year from midway. Stored in a dry environment in my gunroom. I'm hoping to be building my own bp by next year, but I'm certainly not gonna go down that tunnel until I can get some form of consistency.
Again acknowledging that bp and smokeless are miles apart: should my barrel be free floating after the underlug on the Hawken? I'm wondering if something swelled causing my wedge to fit tighter and maybe be putting pressure on the barrel somewhere.
Between running steel wool in my barrel, wet swab instead of dry swab between shots, checking torque on my rear sight and potentially wet patching my ball instead of lube patch, and floating if needed (I assume yes) I have one heck of a good start (and a fair bit of work ahead of me). Thanks again!