It got me thinking
On my recent post on shooting the new GM 1:70 .54 barrel it got me wondering just what the patches looked like. It never dawned on me to check them. Semisane was saying that his barrel had very sharp rifling at the muzzle. When I checked mine, it too felt sharp. So I made the short trip to my shooting spot to see if I could find some of my spent patches. Well I did. The .015" Ox Yoke patches were frayed on the edges but not burned thru nor cut. And the .018" pillow tick patches were in terrific shape. I think I could have re-lubed them and used them again if I wanted. They just showed some slight 'browning' from the burning powder. Of course the lube was gone from sitting 4 days in 90* plus weather.
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PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO THE RISING COST IN AMMO PRICES I WILL NO LONGER BE FIRING A WARNING SHOT.
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I'm not as good as I'm gonna get - but I'm better than I used to be.
"Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point."
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