Originally Posted by
Tom
Thank you everyone. Eggman I hope to meet you at the next Deep South Skirmish. I don't know who you are, but I hope we meet. I am on the 44th GA and we are usually the next bench to the Escort. Mailemaker I think you are on the 4th LA and hopefully I'll see you also. Mr. Anderson, you are spot on, I have been shooting Swiss 3 F in my smoothbore. I tried to get the kind of blackpowder you mentioned but couldn't for the upcoming skirmish. I'll order some in the future. Thanks to Lou and others, I'm going to try some musket lube and perhaps some dry rounds just to see how those work. When I run out of ideas, sometimes this board helps me get more. I should get this ol' smuv bo shooting good. Just give it time. Thanks again everyone.
Another thing I tried was to boil the round balls, then dip them in my musket lube heated in the microwave. Heating the balls in this manner gave me a much thinner coating of lube, similar to a thin coat of alox. This helped with the eventual fouling, but I couldn’t get enough rounds down range to complete an individual event in Virginia.
I shot all last season without lubing a single smoothbore round and had my best year yet. Even medalled in Virginia at 25 yards. No small feat with the quality of the competition.
Bob Anderson
Company C, 1st Michigan Volunteer Infantry
Small Arms Committee
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on.
I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."
- John Wayne in "The Shootist", 1976
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