Here is how I cut my patches. I do it this way because you always without fail, get a perfect centered patch and ball.



This is a strip of cloth torn off a yard of 100% cotton pillow tick cloth. I even tired to light it on fire today and it did not want to burn. The recovered patches were in extremely good condition. As you can see in this photo, I have applied some of the liquid moose milk to the patch. I then roll that material up to distribute the liquid through the strip and reduce the amount I am going to force down the barrel.



Lay the strip of pillow tick over the muzzle and set the ball in the center of the bore. Then take your starter and drive the material and ball under the muzzle of the bore.



Here you see the ball seated under the muzzle in the bore.



Pinch the material together, and then cut that cloth off,flush to the muzzle of the rifle barrel with a knife, razor, or scissors. With your starter again, seat it further down the bore and then seat it with the ramrod.

That is how I do it. I do not pre cut patches.