Great day on the range

[Frontier's]

After a horrible day on the range yesterday, i found my error.

The other night i added some pinesol to my spray bottle that i fill with water to swab the bore witj. Huge mistake! I took 6 shots at 200 and only 2 showed up! Went to 100 yards and had a whopping 6 inch group!

Today i dumped the bottle, flushed it out and refilled it with plain ol tap water.

Each shot was swapped between shots with a damp patch of plain water.
100 yards
80gr Gearhart-Owen, 020 patch, 530 round ball.

Sweeet! Lets up it to 90gr..

From now on, its pure water for swapping. No more of those home brew oil, pinesol, ballistol recipes.

There is such a thing as to darn clean and to slick.

 

[sussexmuzllodr]

Thats the power of pinesol baby.....says the woman on the commercial.

 

[fillwa]

Interesting. Another thing to try (variable to adjust) in the pursuit in determining the best combination of "things" for a given gun. I love it!

 

[Carbon 6]

Have you ever done side-by-side comparison with standard bull targets vs. the shoot-n-see types ?
I find my groups always open up on the shoot-n-see targets.

 

[stevemoede]

Frontier, do you ever just use a dry patch. I always just use a dry one. it seems to get the dirt out but I use 2 patches to do it.

 

[Frontier's]

On a dirty bore? No way. Thats asking to get a jag stuck.

 

[stevemoede]

Come to think of it, they are hard to pull out sometimes.

 

[Roundball2319]

Thanks for sharing this. I will keep it in mind the next time I have weird groups.

 

[Grenadier1758]

Frontier, do you ever just use a dry patch. I always just use a dry one. it seems to get the dirt out but I use 2 patches to do it.

I have gotten many a dry patch stuck in a dirty bore. Its required several trips to the ball pulling hook at our range to get the patch out. Those dry patches can be stuck as solid as a dry ball.

Yes, a damp patch will soften the crud ring, capture a lot of fouling and leave the bore ready for the next load.