I.M NOT SURE that's the right word but if you can remember when you had the hots for Mary Jean Kelly in the sixth or seventh grade and you, Illogically, tried to win her affection with paper wad fired out of your hastily made weapon of rather tightly rolled piece of paper?
You didn't just create the wad and blow it out of the end of that paper rol if you wanted distance or possible impact improvement by letting the pressure of held breath to suddenly escape. Wether the wad was wet or dry depended on what kind of young gent you were.
So too with internal ballistics. When black powder burns while very fast it is still a progressive process. the power builds as the powder burns and the amount of pressuring gases build. Now if you have a slick. the ball will begin moving as soon as that gas begins to build. It is quite possible that the ball will be out the end of the barrel before the powder has gone it's thing. This would be a bit of a waste of the powder and quite probably will effect the accuracy of a shot in the same way too small a powder charge would affect it.
Not having seen anything wrong with the Slickness is Better school of thought I was quite surprised when looking for a shot after shot consistent degree of shooting patch lubrication and discovered that the dry, less slick. the patch that I tested that the tighter the groups got.
Some time spent in though brought me back to thoughts of Mary Jean Kelly and the deadly paper wad shooter where allowing the pressure to buildup before release for distance, impact and a flatter trajectory.
With the dryer shooting patch the ball resists just a wee bit longer so the powder's gases have built a small extra amount to give greater distance and a flatter trajectory.
If that thinking seems to make sense to you then all the slick lubes become contraindicated, Unless you have learned to limit them in some way.
I'm sure two will agree and two or more won't but it worked for me
Dutch Schoultz
You didn't just create the wad and blow it out of the end of that paper rol if you wanted distance or possible impact improvement by letting the pressure of held breath to suddenly escape. Wether the wad was wet or dry depended on what kind of young gent you were.
So too with internal ballistics. When black powder burns while very fast it is still a progressive process. the power builds as the powder burns and the amount of pressuring gases build. Now if you have a slick. the ball will begin moving as soon as that gas begins to build. It is quite possible that the ball will be out the end of the barrel before the powder has gone it's thing. This would be a bit of a waste of the powder and quite probably will effect the accuracy of a shot in the same way too small a powder charge would affect it.
Not having seen anything wrong with the Slickness is Better school of thought I was quite surprised when looking for a shot after shot consistent degree of shooting patch lubrication and discovered that the dry, less slick. the patch that I tested that the tighter the groups got.
Some time spent in though brought me back to thoughts of Mary Jean Kelly and the deadly paper wad shooter where allowing the pressure to buildup before release for distance, impact and a flatter trajectory.
With the dryer shooting patch the ball resists just a wee bit longer so the powder's gases have built a small extra amount to give greater distance and a flatter trajectory.
If that thinking seems to make sense to you then all the slick lubes become contraindicated, Unless you have learned to limit them in some way.
I'm sure two will agree and two or more won't but it worked for me
Dutch Schoultz