OxYoke: Any suppliers stepping up to the plate?

[Darkhorse]

Well I hope they get their act together because I do the trad thing both ways.
When I practice i use a loose .010 precut wonderlubed patch and .530 ball with 40 grains of 3fg. I can load this with or without a short starter without working up a lot of sweat in this heat.
Today I shot a 20 shot offhand string at 30 yards at a 100 yard smallbore rifle target. All 20 were in the 9 & 10 ring with the center mostly gone. No flint knapping or wiping. Just a lot of good fun.
That is plenty good enough easy accuracy for plinking or informal target shooting. Or even a squirrel or rabbit.
But for deer its different. I use .o175 ticking lubed with 100% Mink oil. This is a bugger to start sometimes but I feel itgives the best velocity and accuracy with heavier loads.

 

[CrackStock]

Odd would be in the eye of the beholder rather than a slur. I did not intend it to be personal. Actually, it is not much different than "funny choice of words" when you think about it. But then, we are neighbors and friends. Please do not take offense at my reaction to attitudes of my brother ML shooters. I have sense of humor that some might find odd.

I will try to explain it a bit better.

I was really wanting to point out that we can look to our own resources in meeting this component need.

We can buy round cutters to make the same patches, we can cut out squares in bulk or use strips and cut at the muzzle. The lube is litle more that a thickened variant of common bore butter.

It just amused me to see such upsetment over a momentary lapse in a prepackaged version of a component. Are MLers not the pinnacle of the rugged individualists? Does this not strike you as incongruous? Possibly even humorously so?

CS

 

[sse]

A lot of the shooters like to cut and lube and do all kinds of things to create the patch. Some just like to buy them, some are even pre-lubed. This is especially convenient for a neophyte, who isn't gong to fuss with all the homemade stuff to start out with and will pass on all the B/P stuff altogether........

I doubt I would have bothered with B/P if I discovered I needed to come up with a patch and lube from scratch.

Regards, sse