Author Topic: Rice or Colerain?  (Read 4657 times)

Offline Dave R

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Re: Rice or Colerain?
« Reply #25 on: June 15, 2018, 06:12:22 AM »
Rice does a great job of bottoming out the breech plug square in the threaded barrel ! Please check the Colerain,  I have had two Colerains in 32 cal that evidently were drilled with a tapered drill then the threads were cut and the breech plug did not seat squarely agenst the rifleing,Black powder collects in this tapered void and on a high moisture condition the residue turns to black soup!  Those barrels were built 15 - 20 years ago possibly they may have improved?  Also I can feel chatter when loading a very tight patch / ball combination on my 32 Colerain barrels! My 50 and 54 cal Colerain barrels have a much smoother rifled bore! All Rice barrels I have seen have exceptionally smooth rifling! I would choose the Rice.
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