Hello again.
Well despite the weather being freezing cold I decided to go out to the bush and try hunting down a 2x4.
I loaded it up with about 50 grains of 2FG and a .490 ball. In the Flashpan I had some much finer stuff. Not sure what I'd call it. about 1/3 the grain size of the 2F. So I guess 4F. Finer anyways.
Its still tough as hell to get the ball down in there. I have a home made starter tool I made and that helped but still really tough. I almost cant believe the ball is 0.1 inches smaller that the bore. Earlier in another thread I was advised to ditch those Wonderlube patches. Maybe theyre contributing. I wondered about just using cleaning patches with spit. Someone advised me to use spit.
Anyways I had a couple flash in the pans and some hang fire but I eventually got it working out nicely.
Well despite the weather being freezing cold I decided to go out to the bush and try hunting down a 2x4.
I loaded it up with about 50 grains of 2FG and a .490 ball. In the Flashpan I had some much finer stuff. Not sure what I'd call it. about 1/3 the grain size of the 2F. So I guess 4F. Finer anyways.
Its still tough as hell to get the ball down in there. I have a home made starter tool I made and that helped but still really tough. I almost cant believe the ball is 0.1 inches smaller that the bore. Earlier in another thread I was advised to ditch those Wonderlube patches. Maybe theyre contributing. I wondered about just using cleaning patches with spit. Someone advised me to use spit.
Anyways I had a couple flash in the pans and some hang fire but I eventually got it working out nicely.
