That’s awesome! It’s a small world! My daughter graduated from Kellogg last year.
Thank you! I will let you know. I have a few things to sort out and will hopefully be busy hunting here for a few weeks. I will get in touch with ya as we get into December, if that is ok with you. If you are in a hurry, just let me know. I would really like to try those. I had some conicals that I bought locally and I believe they were the REAL bullet. But they didn’t say what mold it was. Looked awfully close. Even with the banged up crown, those bullets were showing promise. I bet they would work really well now that the issue has been addressed.
My Renagade .54 loves REALs. I was not impressed until I started using an over powder felt wad. then they just all came together. Good with light loads too.
What a butcher job, my kid could have done that better! It is amazing that some people call themselves gunsmiths.If you are marring up screws and dinging every thing else up,you are not qualified to work on a pop-gun.
Yes Sir! I seriously regret trusting this individual. It sucks because he is a really good guy, just not a good smith. It’s been a real exercise on my part to extend grace. Also, lesson learned. I won’t be back there.
One bounce seams to compress the load enough to significantly improve the groups. Considering your statement, would you say that I need to increase the powder charge to make up for not doing so? The one flyer I had was because I didn’t compress the load. The following 3 made one ragged hole. I could see where the balls struck the rubber Matt behind my target and they measured .65” center to center
Thank you! I appreciate your help. On the next outing I will experiment. I shot a group of 3 where I just put as much pressure on the ball as I could with 2 thumbs, and also another group just seating the ball on the powder, no extra pressure. Both groups were around 3”. Then I used the same load seating again with thumb pressure as before and then raised the Rod about 3 inches and gave it a whack with the weight of my ramrod. It shrunk the group to the above photo. I can’t explain it, I just know it worked… for now. Maybe I just need to seat with more pressure without the bounce. I’ve only been serious about learning muzzleloading for a couple of years. I still have a lot to learn as far as what it takes to get really small groups that are consistent. Some guys are fine with a 2-3” group. But I’ve seen what some shooters can do and I really want to hone my skills to be where they are.(maybe in another 40 years). It certainly helps with my confidence and knowing where that ball/bullet is going to go when that venison walks out from behind the tree.
Personally, I haven’t found bouncing a ramrod to improve accuracy, but have only done limited testing and want to learn. Have a few questions about the technique.
I can’t answer those questions with any seriousness. My ramrod from my Renegade is lighter that my Hawken, which are both lighter than my Lyman. The lighter ones require more force than the heavy ones. Maybe an extra half a bounce. But in all seriousness, I was just trying something I had not tried before, and it helped. I’ve seen target shooters do it - there must be a reason and I think that reason is consistency with seating pressure, but I could be wrong. It’s also a pain if you’re reloading for a follow up shot on a buck and you have to count your bounce…. Did that one bounce or not? Throw in an extra bounce for good measure? Certainly this would begin to crush the powder kernels if done too much. I just know that sometimes the rod seats the ball farther and does not bounce and the 2nd bounce gives a return because it’s now solid…. This was the first time I tried this technique, if it is a technique. Maybe it was just stupid. It was consistent for 6 shots and then I had to pack it up.
I don’t believe bouncing the ramrod makes much difference one way or another. I believe you can put a lot more pressure on the ball just with steady pressure on the loading rod. The Kadooty was supposed to provide 40# of pressure consistently. No way you’re applying 40# of pressure by bouncing a rod unless it’s solid brass and you really wang the thing. I don’t see it.
