What??? I posted the same comment in another thread?? I sure don't remember doing it! It may be that I'm the one getting drifty!
JS
JS
How far do you seat the PB before trimming the pillow ticking?
I have a simple hint, Use a wooden patched ball board, a 1X2 actually 3/4" thick works for me on a .50 rifle. load the lubed ticking patch with your favorite "Spit Patch" or whatever you use, (something that don't dry out for a while) and load the patched balls in the block sitting on a hardwood board to get them even with the bottom of your loading board and then cut the patch even with the top of the board, that will leave just a bit of the patch above the ball.
You will look neat and nicely prepared to your shooting buddies at the range or the deer camp (not that means anything, or maybe it will get you out of being the "designated camp-cook and chief bottle washer" ) !
Also, if you use disposable foam paint brushes, after it is dryed out pull the foam and plastic off the dowel (you have a 4" long 7/16" diameter dowel with a nice 3/16" and 3/4"long hole centered in one end of the dowel) and you can use the hardwood dowel to make lots of things, like a short ball starter, etc.,etc.,.
So for me it varies a tiny bit by caliber. With the .54s I use the ball side of my Round Handle Ball Starter (not the little nub starter) but the ball handle it's self. the curve of the round handle pushes the .54 cal ball "Just" below the crown, then I try to cut maybe 1/16th inch to at most 1/8th above the crown. with my .32 this can be too much patch above the ball so I try to load the ball even or maybe with just a hair of it above the crown, and then cut 1/16 above. Hope that helps
I,am new to muzzle loading . I cut at the barrel as I learned here . One of the pros at range told me that my patches were small after looking at the patch that I had just shot . He asked why I cut at the muzzle and advised me not to do it . That I should use larger patches
The important part of the patch around the "Belt" of the ball. tight enough to stay in place during the firing process. We do NOT want any of the shooting patch to be in front of the ball which would very likely deflect the ball from its intended path.
Dutch
No discernable difference...Fine if accuracy isn't important to you.
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