Gang I've got some people telling me the old timers coned their rifles and never used a ball starter. They say starters are a modern invention.
I've got others saying coning was either just for decoration or is just from muzzle wear over the years, and that it was never used to make seating a ball easier, the old timers just used looser ball and patch than we do now.
Some say coning wrecks the accuracy, sends the ball astray. Others say it doesn't affect the ball and it flies as true as before the job.
Well guys, now just what do you make of that? And what am I supposed to make of it too?
Pards I'm all mixed up and confused on coning, it's origins, whether I should do it to my gun and ditch my starter?
I've got others saying coning was either just for decoration or is just from muzzle wear over the years, and that it was never used to make seating a ball easier, the old timers just used looser ball and patch than we do now.
Some say coning wrecks the accuracy, sends the ball astray. Others say it doesn't affect the ball and it flies as true as before the job.
Well guys, now just what do you make of that? And what am I supposed to make of it too?
Pards I'm all mixed up and confused on coning, it's origins, whether I should do it to my gun and ditch my starter?