Patch thickness question

spot,I'm gonna tell ya one thing. Your going down a long slippery slope by askin lot's of questions from lot's of folks,the way's are many and varied.
Find one way,learn it, then try another. If ya mix,,then the broth will be spoiled by many cooks.
I have already shared with you one "seceret stolen from the god's",,ya gotta trust me here. You know where your best building advise is comming from,you know that. when it come's time fer shootin we'll help then too. It's not commplicated at all,,it's easy,just like I showed ya before. K?. you build that gun,,that's the first step.(you ain't gonna mess up nuthin). shootin comes later

 

[Rocky Johnson]

Birddog6 - not washing the sizing out,dose the lub soak into the patch? What do you lub with? At a flee market in Fl. I bought a set of cirle punchs from about 11/2" down that will cut patchs or wads,got the set for $8.00. Rocky

 

[Spot Shooter]

Noldguy,

I hear's ya, The feller who got me started on all this were RollingB. I asks lots of questions but when it comes down to actually doin' it I pretty much stay with what he lead's me too (my way of saying that regardless of other info, I do what he tells me, and I'm happy for it). He ain't led me wrong yet, and I've seen his work. Of course I'm not a kid neither, and know thet it's importint to ask questions when yer in the heat of the momemt. I've shot imatation BP Line-lines before, owned a knight disc rifle - even put a scope on it just to prove I was a complete heathen. LOL!

Anyhow, I understand and agree. I don't think I causin' RollingB any distress askin' questions. I think i picked up a few good Idears along the way. Mostly on how to set up when your going to do something - like clean a riflegun, or carry'n your piece parts. The only thing we don't have here it the ability to watch each other "walk the walk," and that's what I'm lookin fer in the questions. It's the unspoken of how and why that experience teaches that I'm try'n to learn here. Not what you use, but how you use it.

What you use to do it's another matter. BTW- old RB is takin' care thet I don't screw up to bad by gettin' me started with some patch grease and such. Given all that, there are other reason's fer me posting questions like this - The Reason I'm posting here in the first place is cause Zonie and RollingB help'n out so much on tother board - they'd be the reason I got started on this road in the first place - again I'm greatful. last but not least, I'm gettin' more of that crucial information on experience instead of book learn'n from you fellar's then I'd get by askin' 5 times as much on the other board. Hell, I can read a book any day, but again, that ain't gonna replace what I'm pickin' up here. It's what's between the lines thet count's most. Bunch of quad runner, long range shootin', goretex wear'n & GPS folks over on the other board - n' they learn their trade from read'n cally-bella's, n' and gun trade rag magazines.

This place is a breath of fresh air.
Spot

 

[musketman]

quote:Originally posted by Spot Shooter:
Patches are strange for me, This is going to be new. When you grease the patches, do you put it on all sides?You can grease the top, bottom, or both if you are using a paste type lube...

If you are using a liquid type of lube, (like #13 or Moose Milk) just squirt it on and squeeze out the excess before loading...

I always squeeze off the excess because I feel that a saturated patch will soak into the powder charge and cause problems...

I try to be consistant in loading a patched round ball too, I always have the stripes of the patch running the same direction (in my case, parallel to the front sight), this ensures me that the weave of the patch will always be running the same way shot after shot...

It, more than likely, doesn't make a bit of difference...

But I feel that consistency make for a better routine...

 

I grease jest the "bore side" of the patch when huntin!!

I use "spit" for lube when shootin competition!!

Like Musketman I run the "stripes" the same direction when loadin!! (cept I also use the tickin with the "light side" up____ now "thet" is tryin to be consistant ha! ha! ha!___ tho I doubt if it makes any difference really!!)

After more"n thirty years of "loadin" I don"t give it much thot anymore!! (it"s jest a "habit"!!)

 

Yep,I hears ya back Spot,,
Havin all the info ya can goin in sure helps,,
An this site is a gud'n fer traditonal rifle stuff,it's a whole nuther ball game but soo,,much more worth the time,,it's a blast!

When it comes tyme fer the shootin,,we'll know,,an when it's tyme, I'll send ya a copy of the secret papers. These papers are held by top shooters across the US, and some are world wide.
It's part science,,and part practical application,I ain't the best shooter amougnst my co-horts, cause I caint spend all my tyme shootin,but I'm generaly in the top 5(we'er helpin Bob and Tom as best we can,,their 6th and 7th)

(the 8th guy,Ralph,he don't shoot no more!)
just teasin,,thars alot of info out here,,get all ya can,,
now you guy's keep my secret

 

[tommy b]

noldguy,
I sent you a pm the other day. Did you get it? This new format doesn't show that I sent it so I don't know if it never got sent or the format change doesn't show it because it was sent under the old format.

 

[blckhrn]

When I was working as adiemaker measuring fuzzy stuff I'd take a small piece and hold it between the jaws of a caliper, open it up slowly until it falls. That minus .001 or so should be a close measurement.

It's kind of a subjective thing, measuring something fuzzy like that but this way will give you a relatively consistent measurement from one sample to another.

 

[blckhrn]

You can also imitate a pan mike with slugs from steel light fixtures. Check them for flat by rubbing them together and mark the outside. Bigger is better and usin g the slip handle on your mikes will get good measurements