YOu have been given a lot of advice, and it sounds like you mixed them up. The Dry Lube formulas call for a ratio of ballistol( Or other liquids ) to water. The patching material is then allowed to dry. Dry lubes almost never are adequate enough to allow a shooter to shoot continuously without cleaning between shot. Dry patch lubes were never meant to give you that capability.
If you don't want to clean between shots, then you need to go back to another lube. Wonderlube, in all its incarnations, does the trick under many weather conditions, but not all. Some humidity seems to help, so it doesn't work well in arid climates( high mountains) or in the below freezing temperatures where the air also is very dry. It may not work very well even when the temperature is in the low 40s, and 30s, as the water molecule is the most DENSE at 37.5 degrees F.
That is what I meant. I hope you now understand my comments. Take your time experimenting.
Like many new shooters, you seem to want to master all of this business of loading shooting and cleaning a flintlock in a couple of hours. It has taken most of us many years to learn how to do these things correctly, and to sort out different techniques for different shooting conditions. Almost all of us have much experience in the school of hard knocks, having to learn lessons by trial and error. We did not have a group of well educated experts to tell us what to do in a few words on a computer message.
So, please read the comments carefully, and write them down in your own handwriting. Be sure you understand the parameters of advice before applying it. One of the reasons we now shoot guns with fixed ammo is that we can relieve the shooter from any concern about how ammo is created or loaded, so he can just concentrate on his shooting skills. Not so, with MLers. You are both learning to shoot, and to ReLOAD ammo with these guns. I know hundreds of modern gun shooters who have had NO experience reloading ammo, casting bullets, and working with different components to find the best load for their guns. They simply shoot what they buy off the store shelf. If it seems to shoot to the same POI and give them good groups, they buy more of the same ammo. When they see someone on the range loading a MLer, they are aghast- curious, often-- but aghast at all that goes into shooting these things. :thumbsup:
If you are going to stop using Ballistol for a patch lube altogether, after only these few shots, I think you are mistaken. At the very least, use Ballistol as a rust preventative, when you clean the gun for storage between trips to the range or field. Its one of the very best rust inhibitors that have been tested here. Store your rifle muzzle down, so that any excess oil flows out of the barrel, rather than back down into the vent hole, or flashchannel. Use a cleaning patch soaked in alcohol to wipe the bore free of the Ballistol before you load and fire the first shot.
