Lee
Blowing patches like that with that light a load? Is the barrel rough or do you need a larger ball. I all ways end up using a .495 and a .535 but I never could get a load that light to shoot accurate either, the lightest load that shot decent groups for me was 80 gr.
Those patches are from the 50 and both the barrel on the 50 and the 54 are glass smooth - excellent barrels. Why would the thicker patch which should be tighter burn more than the thinner patch?
I tried .535 in my Renengade on my first attempts last year and i could not get them down a fouledbarrel with a .015 patch. I have not tried .495 RB's in the 50 at all.
With your statement maybe I am tryng to shoot a 'to light load' but with the 50 it gives me 1700 fps @ the muzzle. And if I shoot them from the bench with rests both of them will break birds at 100.
I hate doing something that i do not know what I am doing = probably why I never learned to like vegtables as a younger person... but I am detirmined to master this thing - well maybe not master but get better.
Tearing patches up like that indicates a real problem, especially if you were putting wads under them
The wads are to help insulate the patch from the heat of T7-3f on the bottom of the RB- Looking at the patches the .015 patches anyway the point at which the ball sits on the patch looks good to me... the .018's - I can not figure out why they are so bad and the thinner .015's look somewhat? better.
I will keep shooting and sperimenting som-mo
Semi
Ya but! Only one shot would havebroken the bird...and one would have chipped it....