Has anyone done a comparison of accuracy and number of rounds able to be fired when using the various loading methods? Plain naked ball over the powder, ball with grease over it, ball with treated felt wad under ball, etc?
Also, has anyone messed with trying to load revolvers with patched balls? (like .440" balls in common revolvers) Someone was posting about this elsewhere, saying it was the correct method, and the "oversize" ball sizes normally used and recommended by the manufacturers was abusing the guns, cracking cylinders, and stretching frames etc. In googling it, I saw one reference that some target shooters had used it some, but it was generally not thought to be worth the trouble. Sounded rather odd to me.
Also, has anyone messed with trying to load revolvers with patched balls? (like .440" balls in common revolvers) Someone was posting about this elsewhere, saying it was the correct method, and the "oversize" ball sizes normally used and recommended by the manufacturers was abusing the guns, cracking cylinders, and stretching frames etc. In googling it, I saw one reference that some target shooters had used it some, but it was generally not thought to be worth the trouble. Sounded rather odd to me.