I have a question for the group. When I was shooting paper matches everyone knew to clean between shots for best accuracy . When doing prmitive trail walks I have a delima. I am shooting most of the time a 50 cal . I use .490 ball and .015 patching , not a super tight load and 80 grains of fffg. I could shoot less powder, all that about just putting a hole in the paper etc, but that is what the gun is sighted for as it is my hunting load also . I also learned in my years of paper matches that speed is important in the round ball to fight wind a bit and flatten trajectory at the longer ranges. BUT if I shoot more than two shots with out cleaning, loading gets real hard. So usually I shoot twice , then run a few moist patches and then a few dry patches down and continue. most dont do this , I simply have to . I have heard all the stories about 100 shots without cleaning etc but have never experianced it. Tried many patch lubes, all the same result. I have cleanded with spit , and some times carry sime pre-moistened patches with cleaning solvant on it . All of this does slow one up a bit longer than I would like . One of my friends loads a felt wad lubed up on top of the powder before the patch and says he gets over twenty shots with no cleaning as it cleans and blows out the fouling with each shot. I am going to try this with my 75 cal hunting rifle , although I fire a lot more shots in the trail walks . Do many of you clean this much on a trail walk ?