RE: Burnt patches
Thats bad. If it burns up in the barrel, the patch wont be doing as good of a job as it should be. I had the same problem like you. My patches were old and 110grains fffg was burning them up. I added some bore butter to them, doped them up really good and never had a problem since. Im not happy with how cheap they get with the borebutter on the prelubed patches.