I went out to widen my sight notch slightly wound up putting just the right amount of bias to get it on horizontally. My point of aim is just barely into this target at 6 o'clock. another shooter might hit a little higher as that's the way it usually works
I was using .451 balls in .450" chambers and they took very little effort seating. I checked the last round with the rammer a couple of times and was not getting any bullet creep from inertia. Load was 30 gr/vol pyrodex p and it is very mild.
This time, I was careful to wipe all fouling out of the hammer channel and off of the hammer face between every cylinder-full. Also remembered to pick/clear the nipples every time. Function was smoot/ perfect for several cylinder loads with the caps falling off the hammer at the beginning of the cocking sequence. After that, the fouling became significant on the nipples , the rear of the cylinder and the breach and caps began falling onto the hammer or sticking to the nipple area and making the circuit around the cylinder. Smoothness of function fell of a bit but the Army handled the fragments ok even when less than ideally clean.
I ran a moist patch into the bore after every chamber full.
I do believe this one will be extremely reliable as long as it is cleaned very often.
I was using .451 balls in .450" chambers and they took very little effort seating. I checked the last round with the rammer a couple of times and was not getting any bullet creep from inertia. Load was 30 gr/vol pyrodex p and it is very mild.
This time, I was careful to wipe all fouling out of the hammer channel and off of the hammer face between every cylinder-full. Also remembered to pick/clear the nipples every time. Function was smoot/ perfect for several cylinder loads with the caps falling off the hammer at the beginning of the cocking sequence. After that, the fouling became significant on the nipples , the rear of the cylinder and the breach and caps began falling onto the hammer or sticking to the nipple area and making the circuit around the cylinder. Smoothness of function fell of a bit but the Army handled the fragments ok even when less than ideally clean.
I ran a moist patch into the bore after every chamber full.
I do believe this one will be extremely reliable as long as it is cleaned very often.