OK - I know that the folks at American Pioneer say that swabbing between shots isn't necessary . . . . . But over the years, I have gotten in the habit of swabbing and have gotten some pretty tight groups with this technique. The last couple of days I have spentabout 8hours at the range playing with my new Genesis. After conducting a series of controlled experiments, I'm here to report the following:

1. Not only is swabbing not necessary for the JSG; it actually introduces a variable into the process that is not a good thing. If I swab and only use one dry patch, I get a pretty good group about 2" high at 100 yards. If a use two dry patches, the point of impact consistently shifts to 6" high at 100 yards. Not swabbing at all produces a great group that is 3" high at 100 yards.

2. Swabbing causes the bullet to actually go down the barrel harder than not swabbing - just the opposite of Pyrodex and T7.

3. The first shot out of squeaky clean barrel will hit high (7") consistently. After that, shots will group very tight at 3" high if no swabbing is done. Solution: go afield with a fouled gun. My understanding is that the JSG is fairly non-corrosive, so I'm thinking this won't be a big issue. Wouldn't want to leave it dirty for six months, but I'm sure six days wouldn't hurt anything - particularly in a stainless barrel.

Overall, I like this stuff. Fast, clean, accurate. But the old "rules" for loading in-lines don't seem to apply here. Anybody else played with this stuff to any extent? Thanks. Roskoe