Bone meal for buffer

[Ted W. Coombs]

Has anyone ever tryed using bone meal in their shot loads for a buffer and better patterns? Thanks Teton Ted

 

[paulvallandigham]

No. I would think it would be heavy, expensive to produce or buy, and possibly harmful to your barrel over time. Bone is composed of calcium and silcas, along with other trace minerals, all of which are hard enough to scratch the bore on the soft steel stock used for ML barrels.

When You consider how cheaply you can acquire corn meal, or " Farina ", or wasp and hornet nests, or simply buy well made OP wads to use in place of a filler, it doesn't seem very practical. And, if MLERS are anything, we are practical! :hmm: :thumbsup:

 

[Ted W. Coombs]

thanks, didn't realize bone meal was would be that hard on the bore. Teton

 

[paulvallandigham]

I think that is generally why most things we put down the barrels of MLers are make of vegetable fibers, like cotton patches, vegetable based oils, vegetable wads, or wads made or wood pulp.

If you talk to sawyers( the guys who run the saws at any sawmill) they will tell you that there are certain species of trees that are very hard on their blades, including some that we would, at first hand, consider to be soft woods. Its because of the presense of sand and other silica based mineral compounds in the wood that they are so hard on blades, even though they are a fairly soft wood, with large summer growth rings. Cypress and Palm are two " woods " that come to mind that are very hard on sawblades.