How do you guys make up your smooth bore loads?
How do you guys make up your smooth bore loads?
For me, .678 hard lead ball, rolled between two hoof rasps, liquid alox lube over 50 grains of FFFg Goex. I shoot a Potsdam.
Greg Ogdan, 11444
110th OVI
.678 ball, knurled, liquid Alox,45gr FFF Schutzen. Armi Sport Macon conversion
Fletcher Pastore
Cockade Rifles
.678 ball, hard lead, sprue down, dipped thrice in beeswax / peanut oil lube. 70 grains, 2F.
Fire and Fall Back.
Philo
Regards,
Phil Spaugy
How's this? .688 soft ball, 80 grs Goex 2F, beeswax/crisco/olive oil lube, sprue down in tube for a thrice dipping, sprue up, lube down up in bore.
Jim Brady
2249V
Knap's Battery
Jim Brady
2249V
Knap's Battery
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.678 Lyman, any lead, sprue-to-muzzle, 80g 2f Goex, aluminum-foil wrapped "cartridge," 50/50 beeswax/crisco, thrice-dipt.
Jim Strang
Gen. W.T. Sherman's Bodyguard
Midwest Region
"I think the Union army had something to do with it."
― Gen. George Pickett, years afterward, on why his charge at Gettysburg failed.
how do you make a foil cartridge? When you guys talk about lube are you just dipping the ball in the lube and loading it like that with nothing else?
Heres' what I do; Musket on ground,pick up rocks,chuck rocks side-armed. Green
"if at first you don't succeed...keep on succing 'til you do succeed" - Moe Howard
With liquid alox you coat the balls with the lube and let them dry overnight.Originally Posted by ian45662
Fletcher Pastore
Cockade Rifles
Ian: I have a series of step-by-step pics I'll email you separately. Shilohzowie, sometimes that's a more successful approach! Green
Jim Strang
Gen. W.T. Sherman's Bodyguard
Midwest Region
"I think the Union army had something to do with it."
― Gen. George Pickett, years afterward, on why his charge at Gettysburg failed.
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