Had a good time shooting today. I lucked out again on rear sight height work I did yesterday, didn’t even mess up the windage. Was shooting my Cherry stocked .45 SMR. Used 45 grains of Swiss 3F, Goex 4F prime, .020 patch w/mink oil lube. But I did try something different, and being overcast today it was the perfect time for it. After my last shooting session
@Mad Hatter pointed out to me that some of my flyers that I had been attributing to fouling were most likely from chasing the sun. And I believe he was right. I had just gotten into the habit of swabbing every 8-12 shots or whenever my groups opened up. Now I think eye fatigue was more of the factor, plus just forgetting to consider the changing sun angle. Anyway, I shot 27 rounds with no swabbing, but I did clean the pan once. Also was using a French Amber flint that required knapping twice!! My 50 yard group wasn’t great but I only had that 10th shot that puzzled me. After the paper targets I put 5 more rounds on a steel target I had at 75 yards with all hits. And since I was in between chaws of tobacco I used spit patches for these!
Saw that I missed out on a TOW Jaeger project that recently sold... how did I miss that??? Anyway, pressing forward. Sent an email to TRS with some questions, and emailed a couple of members who had old posts with Jaeger parts that didn't appear to sell. We'll see.
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