Someone mentioned something about shooting into a wad of rags to reduce the noise. Thinking about it, it seemed the rags would also kinda make more of the primer fouling stay in the barrel. Yesterday i gave it a try. Shot 5 shotgun primers into a wad of rags, using the breech plug with no flash hole, then switched breech plugs, and loaded the rifle. Load is 110g Blackhorn, 300g Deep Curl, crush rib sabot, Federal 215 primer. Range was 93 yards for the first four shots which are in the red. The 3 shots in the white were from 202 yard.










When i came home i had a notion not to clean the rifle, and see how it would shoot at the same range from a powder fouled barrel. So this morning i once again set the target at 93 yards, and loaded the rifle with an uncleaned barrel with the same load. Shots 8, 9, 10, and 11 were made this morning at the target below, beginning from a cold barrel.