Crow-Feather
32 Cal.
My Tryon target rifle, 54 caliber, worked well with 50 grains of Goex 3f. You have to remember the basics. The patch fills the barrel grooves and grips the ball. When the patch is forced down the barrel, it forces the powder residue from the prior shot to the bottom of the barrel. When the rifle fires, the patch spins because it is locked in the groves due to the ball size. The ball is gripped by the patch because of the pressure of the ball against the patch. The spinning ball is far more accurate than a non-spinning ball.
Your ball and patch size are critical for good accuracy. That's why we measure our patches to the hundredth of an inch. Now with enough pressure (lotsa powder) behind the ball, the ball should obturate and force the patch into the grooves tight enough that the ball will spin. The trick though is to achieve this with less powder, as powder is gettin as hard to find as beaver. I would try a 530 ball and increase the thickness of the patch with 50 grains of 3f until you get accurate. Patches should be somewhere tween .15 and .22 of an inch. I use pillow ticking and wash it at least 3 times to get the sizing out. The patch should be soft and able to adsorb spit or moose milk. The ball patch combo will be tight and require a short starter to get it into the bore.
Now that is my thoughts on the subject. There are others that will give you other ideas to try. What you have to do is keep trying until you find your prefered method. Many have said that the best accuracy is achieved with the lowest powder charge that gets the ball to the target.
Your ball and patch size are critical for good accuracy. That's why we measure our patches to the hundredth of an inch. Now with enough pressure (lotsa powder) behind the ball, the ball should obturate and force the patch into the grooves tight enough that the ball will spin. The trick though is to achieve this with less powder, as powder is gettin as hard to find as beaver. I would try a 530 ball and increase the thickness of the patch with 50 grains of 3f until you get accurate. Patches should be somewhere tween .15 and .22 of an inch. I use pillow ticking and wash it at least 3 times to get the sizing out. The patch should be soft and able to adsorb spit or moose milk. The ball patch combo will be tight and require a short starter to get it into the bore.
Now that is my thoughts on the subject. There are others that will give you other ideas to try. What you have to do is keep trying until you find your prefered method. Many have said that the best accuracy is achieved with the lowest powder charge that gets the ball to the target.
