Last month I reported on the amazing results I got using Liquid Wrench as a patch lube when shooting patched balls from my .54 Renegade. (See - http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/blac...rro-world.html)

I ended that report with a plan to try Liquid Wrench lubed patches in the .58 Hawken in my next range session. The .58 sports a 1:70 twist Green Mountain barrel and a TC "Hunter" peep sight.



I followed the same procedure as my last test by shooting two five-shot 50-yard targets with the same load, one with olive oil for the patch lube and one with Liquid Wrench. I fully cleaned the bore between targets and swabbed with one side of an alcohol patch between shots.

Here's the olive oil target.



Pretty darn good (especially for me with iron sights). That will be hard to beat.

Here's the Liquid Wrench target.



Now it would be improper to draw conclusions from only two five-shot groups. One could probably pick either group and present a case that its marginally better than the other one. As for me, I give the edge to the Liquid Wrench group, with the assumption that my 6 o'clock hold on the bull was not vertically precise. (Anyway, that's what I want to believe. )

When I started the range session I had every intention of repeating the earlier experiment of shooting two targets each at 50, 75 and 100 yards. But let me tell you, it was miserably HOT on the range today (97* & high humidity)

Even though I had a twenty-inch box fan set up next to the bench blowing on me as I swabbed and loaded, it was blowing mighty hot air. And even though I was wearing only shorts, a T-shirt and flip flops I was sweating like a fat girl in a jitterbug contest.

By the time I finished with those two targets my shirt and underwear were soaked and I wasn't having fun. So more targets at longer distances will have to wait until another day.

(Actually, I shot two other targets before the ones shown above - but with .562 balls instead of .575. But that's a topic for another post.)