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Somewhere in this forum was a fellow that made a tool, operated on a drill press, for roughing up round balls. I am looking for contact information. THANKS.
Without trying to hijack the thread, what does knurling a RB offer? Holds the patch better with the theory that it won't slip the rifling? Or for shooting a bore sized RB with no patch? Just curious.
I've always seen the knurling (gnawing or rasping) of the ball as a practice used by smooth bore shooters to slightly enlarge the ball at the knurling for a better fit of the ball to the bore. The knurling is allegedly supposed to give better aerodynamics to the ball. I think that the practice of dimpling the ball between two rasps ot whatever gives the shooter a bit of mental confidence and the accuracy improves,
Knurling is also done to give bullet lube a place to accumulate when you're shooting an unpatched, knurled RB in a smoothbore. I've knurled bore diameter RB's between 2 coarse files for my smoothbore, dip lubed them, but I didn't find them to be more accurate than a smaller patched RB in my gun.
Somewhere in this forum was a fellow that made a tool, operated on a drill press, for roughing up round balls. I am looking for contact information. THANKS.