Absolutely, spit works for target shooting as it works as well as anything else that I've found.
Some guys and gals can muster up enough while some as we age, cannot and must improvise.
Our improvisation was in part, accompanied with a need for our lube to resist freezing, thus we
tended towards Blue Thunder Winter Windshield Washer Fluid, now known here as WWWF.
As when making up a batch of this stuff, a 'batch' (US gallon) usually lasts a year or more, so to
the WWWF, we add 'some' Neetsfoot oil. Due to the oil falling out of suspension, before adding
it to the pre-cut patches, I shake the container (usually form a quart container) then pour the 'lube'
over the patches in the Sucrets tin, or plastic bullet box or plastic candy tin, which I found some where.
Once the patches have soaked up lube completely, I turn the tin on it's side and gently squeeze the
stacks of patches with a finger or thumb and pour the excess lube back into the container. The oil content
for me, is simply to reduce the rate of evapouration and to add a little lube to the mix as is does evapourate
somewhat at Hefley when it's over 100F. It is not always that hot there, but sometimes is.
So - yes - whether WWWF+ oil, or spit, when I or Taylor used to smack the ball into the muzzle with the (we're
more gentle now) flat end of the starter ball, if someone is/was standing close, they might be hit with a bit of slash.
Yes- the patches are wet but only splash if smacked down hard into the muzzle. There is no splash if pushing them
straight into the muzzle with the little stud on the starter, or punching it into the bore with a smack, and the stud
on the ball. 'Accurate' use of the stud will ensure the ball is started straight into the muzzle - with equal pressure
all the way around.
Ball starters with little studs. The antlers are deer and moose.
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