ORIGINAL: Mikey S. Yea, I'm shooting Goex FF. I usually swab with the TC pre-saturated cleaning patches in between shots at that range. It works really well, but doing after every shot gets to be a pain VOILA!!.....and that business in the woods yesterday really had me jacked.
Seems to me that you have discovered your own problem-too much fouling from real BP!! Usingreal BP, you get reliable ignition, butalso a lot more fouling is deposited in the bore. This makes things get tight quick!
For the Brown Bess smoothbore musket, the British issued paper cartridge ammunitiuon in belt boxes with the cartridges packed in rows with bullets of descending diameter so that as the muskets fouled up, the troops were loading progressively smaller balls so they would go down the barrel!
I suggest you try shooting your rifle with American Pioneer powder or GOEX Pinnacle instead of real black, to see how it loads when the bore is not crudding up so rapidly! If you use CCI No. 11 magnum caps, you will not have any ignition problems. Either of these two powders cleans out more easily than either BP or Pyrodex.