ORIGINAL: Blown Smoke
roundball,
Do you fire a fouling shot in a flintlock to remove any remaining oils
in the leftbore before loading the main charge and taking your first
shot? Like we do with our caplocks. Or do you use an alcohol patch
or something for this?
You did a super job of helping me with this, and I really appreciate it.
"Thanks Big Time"
Blown Smoke
Absolutely not...I sight in a rifle from a squeaky clean/lubed bore, just like it will be for the shot when I'm hunting...I just dry patch out any excess bore butter from the last heavy lubing, and load the rifle.
UsingNatural Lube 1000I don'tget the different POI'sfrom one shot to the next...I shoot40-50 shot range sessions on Saturday mornings with Goex 3F and unless it's a rare dry winter day,never have towipe between shots,and all 40-50 shots shoot just like the first one.
To me, it makes no sense to go to all the trouble of getting a rifle spotless, then shooting a "fouling shot" to dirty it up to go sit in the woods all day with a dirty rifle...IMO, if a person is having different POI's from 1st shot to 2nd shot, then they need to figure out aclean, logical way to correct it...ie: find a lube or something that gives shot to shot consistency.
My .02 cents...