midland man
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yesterday I took out my traditions Kentucky flintlock rifle in 45 caliber and all this time I been using a .440dia ball with 18ths patch lubed right then using pillow ticking material and while my groups on cardboard were okay using 50gr goex 3f powder. I have a box of roundballs at .445dia and some 15ths pillow ticking material I hadn't used yet and so I decided to try this out using the same powder charge and wow! what a difference it made trying out this 5 thousandths bigger ball and 15ths patching material with my homemade lube the accuracy was super good! now I was putting groups cutting out the hole on the same group like it was a regular deer rifle so I was impressed! so I was wondering why or is it because the ball being closer to the bore making this more accurate or what made it become a tack driving accurate shooting rifle? I couldn't believe this made that much difference so guys what do ya'll think??