Biathlon with a musket? Now THAT is definitely MANLY!
Unfortunately, you have opened up a can or worms by mentioning any one of a number of critical keywords in a BB post. In this case the word "lube" will generate all kinds of formulae that will do everything including work as a dressing for your leathers.
You don't mention the distances but a musketoon should be accurate enough out to 100 yards as long as there are not too many shots. Most of our lubes tend to get crusty real quickly in cold weather.
I'm also a BPCR silhouette shooter until I got the skirmish bug, so the short answer is measure the bore of your Enfield and get a lubrisizer die from S&S Firearms that will true up and lube your minies to about 1 to 2 thousandths under bore size. Go ahead and use the SPG, which is not necessarily the best but is good enough for cold weather and short shot strings. If you get serious about musket shooting (HINT - like joining N-SSA) you'll quickly learn that there are plenty of recipes which are cheaper and better. I use a home-made recipe that was good in my BPCR guns out to 1000 yards and worked just as well in winter and summer. Once you feel the need to improve on the SPG, as MANY do, send me a PM and I'll give you my recipe. I mix my lube on a stove and cast it into sticks that load easily into my Lyman Lubrisizer. For the price of postage, I might even be willing to sample you a stick to try.
You also didn't mention your choice of bullet, but for a beginner at short distance, look at Lyman 575494. That's a mild recoiling light minie that will fly true out to 50 yards for certain and possibly as far as 100 with a good job of casting and sizing. Parker Hales have a .577 bore, so look at sizing to .575 or .576. If the mould drops them at .575, you can dip lube instead of sizing, but I like trueing up the skirts in a sizer die.
Welcome to a very addictive black powder shooting sport.
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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