Rangte Report: Twice fired shooting patches

[roundball]

FWIW, range results using once previously fired shooting patches.

First photo is the set of OxYoke .015" patches I fired last summer in a .50cal barrel with 50grns Goex 3F.

Second photo shows some of the same .015" OxYoke patches fired a second time out of a .50cal barrel with 50grn targets loads.

They worked perfectly and frankly could be used again if anybody wanted to.

 

[Keppy]

Glad to here it worked out well. Now are you going to try for a third shoot on those patches? I have looked at some of my patches and have had the same thought as you but just never considered trying to shoot them again. But I will now for practice. You relube them I thought you said correct? Thanks

 

[riarcher]

Tried the same thing myself last summer.
Using Denum & BB I was able to reuse for 7 uses before they were frayed to the point of unusable.
And that was without adding any lube along the way.
However, I still go for the one-time use just to prevent any possible (unlikely) premature barrel wear.
Amazingly, when it's right,,, it's really right. :thumbsup:

 

[roundball]

Glad to here it worked out well. Now are you going to try for a third shoot on those patches? I have looked at some of my patches and have had the same thought as you but just never considered trying to shoot them again. But I will now for practice. You relube them I thought you said correct? Thanks

No, I'm not going to bother shooting them again...these are just fairly thin .015" OxYoke plain cotton patches...plus, I have a ton of new bags of them stacked up on the shelf.

There are so many old wives tales floating around this sport that "you can't do this", or "that won't work", or "1:48" twists won't shoot RB's accurately", etc, etc, that I just like to try things first hand for the personal experience of it.

Yes, even though I could still feel a little NL1000 lube in them, I tossed a couple hundred into a large ziploc and squirted a few shots of Hoppes BP Plus on them, shook them around, let them sit over night, etc...they did perfectly.

Shot a 50 shot range session with them and never wiped the bore...and it was so dry that I never had to wipe the pan either...had those tell-tale red flecks in the dry pan residue and around the muzzle which is what I always see in extremely dry conditions.

Going to do it again tomorrow morning...

 

[LittleMoe430]

So, it's the really low humidity that makes the red flecks in my muzzle? I wondered what that was all about...

 

[roundball]

So, it's the really low humidity that makes the red flecks in my muzzle? I wondered what that was all about...

That's the only time I ever see it...and when the humidity is high, either the chemical residue environment is different and the red flecks are not even produced, or, they're always produced but high humidity moisture content immediately dissolves or masks them off somehow...dunno...not a chemical engineer.

I do know that it's not just cold temperature, because even on cold winter days here, as long as the humidity is up, I don't see the red flecks.

 

[Halftail]

Your Lucky Roundball,5 times more lucky :grin:
I fired 10 times this morning with my Deerstalker flintlock and with the -16C wind chill it was too cold for more.I might go it again tomorrow morning if it's fine enough.

 

[roundball]

Your Lucky Roundball,5 times more lucky :grin:
I fired 10 times this morning with my Deerstalker flintlock and with the -16C wind chill it was too cold for more.I might go it again tomorrow morning if it's fine enough.

Seems like you boys up in Canada could build a snow tunnel to shoot in...keep the wind off of you.
:grin:

 

[RiverRat]

So it wasn't the red pillow ticking that was making those red flakes around the pan and the muzzle. I thought I was loosing my mind because when I used blue ticking, I never saw blue flakes :hmm: :haha:

 

[Halftail]

I was told when I first started muzzleloading by an old guy that the red flecks was called "Bleeding of the barrell" and it was a Good thing.
I never have figured out why it was good but see it quite often.

 

[JeffinNZ]

MMMAAAANNNNNN......I thought I was tight fisted and mean........... :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: