Originally Posted by cayugad

Now you can use spit as the lube when you set a roundball, and they work just fine. Also spit can be used when you swab the bore of the rifle. Spit actually works really well. At shooting matches you often see an old timer with a chunk of cloth in his mouth.

I used to shoot spit patched roundball all the time and had good accuracy. Then bore butter came and we went to that. Now I use moose milk. But in a pinch, I have often resorted back to a spit ball for shooting and for swabbing.