I decided to take the Early Virginia smoothrilfe (.62x42" swamped barrel 90 gr 3f .010 spit patch 50 yds offhand) this morning and when I got the first charge of powder down the tube I found myself without any precut patches, patching material, wadding, over powder cards, over shot cards, nadda, zilch, nothing, one of those days it was nice to be alone, I tore the truck apart and found three pieces of thin .010 ticking squares under the passenger seat a bit smaller than I usually use in this gun but big enough as it turned out, I used two and put two holes in the target for the contest in case someone still needed a pardner, then continued to shoot and retrieve the three patches and reused them to fire eight shots into a paper plate after the contest target, I quit as soon as I missed the plate. The plate is pictured below, the four in the center are the first four then the lower one the last two just clipped the paper, ain't this a fun sport when ya got yer &%#@ together?
