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Joanne's Fabric Options?
WadePatton:
--- Quote from: Mike_StL on December 15, 2021, 02:12:30 AM ---
I prefer the #40 Cotton Drill from Jo-Ann's.
I also did a test with 0.010 fine cotton cloth and a loose ball to see what the difference would be on target.
There's a difference but not as much as I expected.
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That vertical stringing looks like velocity variation to me. Try again at 40 or 50 to see how things open up--would be my next move. But also I know that after a number of shots you'll have to swab for that patch burning combo. But you may swab all the time anyway. Thanks for the report. My cloth gets here tomorrow and I might get to shoot on the weekend. TODAY would have been so perfect, it was warm enough (over 50 once the sun got up) and calm, and no bugs (overcast would have been better, but we can't have it all)... loved being employed outdoors today.
Mike_StL:
Thank you Wade for the suggestion. I do need to shoot it at 50 yards for a second evaluation. I used the smaller ball and the thinner patch to see what might happen in a woods walk where I have to load from the pouch, and I want an easy to load ball with patch. I'm going to have to watch the light and the wind for the horizontal stringing.
Daryl:
You can have an easy way to load and have to wipe the bore as well as getting horrid accuracy, or have a relatively easy way to load from the pouch, which is what we all do up here
and get good accuracy right to our longest target at 100 meters(109yards).
Your second picture of .535" ball and .017" patch, is about the bare minimum. The guys here with .54's, use a .535" ball and 10 ounce denim, which is .021"compressed in calipers.
It can[t be too hard to load, my daughter and wife use the same patch, only with a ball .010" smaller than the bore(.530").
I am surprised you were able to find any shred of the .010" patch, due to the ULTRA sloppy fit of ball and patch.
Back in the early 70's, Lyman knew what a proper ball & patch fit looked like.
In order to get this fit, you need "some" compression in the bottom of the grooves.
Mathematics is your friend.
WadePatton:
I got some pocket drill and the red striped ticking. After a hand washing in hot water and drying one time I measured .018" and .016" respectively. I'll try them out when I get a suitable weekend or the, now rare, day off. It'll be my first departure from denim.
Panzerschwein:
--- Quote from: Daryl on December 11, 2021, 08:53:08 PM ---A few years ago, we came across a mattress ticking at a local sewing shop. This material, 100% cotton we called mattress ticking, a very tightly woven cloth that turned out
to be a SUPER patch material for ALL of us up here. Compressed in dial calipers as tightly as I can squeeze the tines between forefinger and thumb, after washing it measures (just re-did it)
.023". I've even used this material in my .32, with .320" balls and in my .40, with .400" balls, being dead soft lead, of course (from X-Ray Room wall lead sheeting). It also shot well
in the .58 Kodiak with .562" balls as well as .574" balls. Taylor's A. Verner .50 with .495" balls, my .50 Beck (by him) with .495" balls, my old .45 with .445" balls and the .69, with .682" balls.
It was even "perfect' in the 20 bore (choked) with .595" balls.
Alas, we can find no more. I still have a few scraps.
Red, White, Light Blue and Dark Blue stripes.
If I could find a bolt of this stuff in Canada, I would buy at least 1/2 of it.
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Looks like top shelf stuff for round bottom rifling.
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