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Told 5gr corn meal on top of powder charge after 3 shots does a very good job cleaning barrel. Again from a very old bp shooter. I have seen his target groups-very good

Best thing for cleaning the barrel during a shooting session is a plain ol spit patch, unless your name is Rat, then you would probably use some sort of solvent, cuz spit has water in it :: or a patch with alcohol on it.

Someone said if'n you have a goats butt handy, your barrel will always be shiny

I wonder if'n ya could make a patch outta that goat's butt? That otta do tha trick!

An old timer told me about using corn meal on top of powder in revolver loads, but he said the general idea was to seat the bullet as close to the end of the cylinder as possible. The logic is that the shorter the distance that the ball has to travel to get to the rifling the more accurate it will be.

I've only done it once though; it really slows the loading process and I load pretty close to the end of the cylinder using wonder wads. I also didn't see any drastic reduction in group size shooting it off hand.

I've used cornmeal as a buffer. I put 10 grains on top of the charge. As for cleaning the barrel I can not attest to. As for shooting better groups, well it can help in that department as it will help protect the patch from the hot gases of the ingition.

Told 5gr corn meal on top of powder charge after 3 shots does a very good job cleaning barrel.

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Do you use cream and sugar also? :crackup: :crackup: :redthumb:

Told 5gr corn meal on top of powder charge after 3 shots does a very good job cleaning barrel.

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Do you use cream and sugar also? :crackup: :crackup: :redthumb:

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No that would be with Cream Of Wheat. With cornmeal you want butter and honey. :crackup:

Told 5gr corn meal on top of powder charge after 3 shots does a very good job cleaning barrel. Again from a very old bp shooter. I have seen his target groups-very good

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Has anyone else tried this in a revolver? How did it work for you?

Told 5gr corn meal on top of powder charge after 3 shots does a very good job cleaning barrel. Again from a very old bp shooter. I have seen his target groups-very good

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I don't see how corn meal push'n a patched roundball down the bore, will clean the bp foul'n be'n deposited behind the corn meal!!

'Course I don't see "much" of anythin, what with me be'n blind'n all!! :haha:

YMHS
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Well, I can't see carrying around a box of corn meal. Does your old BP guru have an opinion on putting a Cheerio on top of the powder? :haha:

Can't imagine WHY burning corn meal would clean the barrel, especially only 5 grains. That's not much more than a priming charge for a flinter.

Well, i don't know bout it cleanin' much, but it does sound to me that ya need to find another REAL OLD black powder shooter to listen to. :: Hey speakin' of OLD timers, haven't heard anything from Musket Man lately. Anyone know why?

Well, i don't know bout it cleanin' much, but it does sound to me that ya need to find another REAL OLD black powder shooter to listen to. :: Hey speakin' of OLD timers, haven't heard anything from Musket Man lately. Anyone know why?

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Maybe he ran to the store to git some corn meal!! :crackup: :crackup:

YMHS
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... Hey speakin' of OLD timers, haven't heard anything from Musket Man lately. Anyone know why?

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A couple of weeks ago, he said he was working 10 to 12 hour shifts at his job. He may be doing that again.

He runs a mill at a rubber factory.
You don't suppose the large sales of Viagra has anything to do with it do you? :: :: :: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup:

Ya mean he makes condoms? :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: Yep, that there Viagra could keep him workin' overtime then. ::

I'll bet use'n Viagra in place of corn meal, in a muzzleloader,.... would make fer'a purty "stiff load"!!!! :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup:

YMHS
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When I say old timer- I am 60 and he is old. The mans name is Chuck (iron hand) Wilcox. Wrote articles in muzzel blast years ago.

Sacate,.... With all due respect to you, and Mr. Wilcox,.... I have shot with a fella thet made much the same claims 'bout corn meal until we shot fer a while "on tha line" and he had to swab his barrel out before I did. He was use'n some commercial "lube" with his magic corn meal,.... and I was use'n plain ol'spit.

Some BPCR shooters use corn meal in ther blackpowder cartridges for "reduced loads", and in thet "type" of shooting, corn meal "might" help blow out some of the previous foul'n but then agin,.... we're talk'n 'bout more then jest 5 grs. of corn meal be'n used as a "filler"!!

YMHS
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Has anyone else tried this in a revolver? How did it work for you?

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Flash ITP,
Before I owned a single shot handgun, I would use semolina in my 1858 Remington (Pietta). (Semolina is derived from wheat, unfortunately, I can't remember the US term for it but it is cream of something). Shooting at paper targets with a .44 BP revolver at 25 or 50 yards, a powder charge of approx 15gns of 3F is all that is required, as opposed to filling the chambers with BP. With a powder charge as small as this, using the loading lever to push the ball into the chambers will NOT seat the ball on to the powder ie an air gap exists between the powder & ball (BAD), therefore a filler is required.

I have been told that the less distance a projectile travels in a chamber, the more accurate a firearm will shoot, however I cannot substantiate this.
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Jim.

rb,
probably would go straight to the target
though!!!!!! :crackup: :hmm: :crackup: :hmm: :crackup: :hmm:
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