Round ball day
 

I got her out to 100 yards today with 80gr 3f American Pioneer, .018" patches and .490" homemade round balls. First shot was awesome " right under the bulls eye" but that funky APP always does that on a clean bore. Next 2 shots were AMAZING accuracy wise but low on a dirty bore. Those 2 shots were just slightly under 1" apart.


The other night i ran 110 passes with jb bore paste and today i had zero issues with my patches tearing. I think the barrel just hasn't been shot that much and had sharp rifling that was slicing my patches in half.

Nope! Thats not good enough! Just send the gun to me I will take it off your hands! Beautiful rifle and good shootin'

What did the patches look like after they were shot???

A way to check on the cutting is to start a ball and either pull it with your ball puller or if you cut a the muzzle pull it back out with the strip if ticking...

Not bad. I mention about using some roundballs in my hawkens and people give me this dumb wtf look and ask why.

Been shooting shockwaves with great success out of my hawkens. Want to just be simple.

It would be interesting to see if you cleaned the rifle and then repeated the same shooting, if it would do the same thing again. If the rifle continues to set one under the bull, and then the next two were several inches low, I would shoot the rifle on a fouled bore.

recovered patches looked brand spankin new. Not a tear or burn mark on them.

May pick up some RS later today.

While it could always be the brand of powder or the amount of the powder charge, there's also air voids within the balls to consider.
Do you weigh or measure the cast balls?
And air voids may not all be identical in size or location.
Factory swagged balls will usually be a little more perfect and uniform compared to cast.

i have weighed the balls before but they were within 3 grains of each other and so i said screw that, just load up and shoot.

Thats pretty normal though with American Pioneer powder. It does the same thing with conicals on a clean bore. APP suggests a fouled bore.

If that's the case then the rifling isn't cutting them in half......