DougB
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I have a couple of .50 Caliber muzzle-loading rifles (Hawken and Kentucky style). After a few shots, they get very hard to load due, I'm sure, to fouling. Even when clean, I need to really lean on the short starter to get the ball into the barrel, and it takes quite a bit of pressure on the ramrod (several short pushes) to get them loaded. I'm using .490 balls and generally .015" thick patches. I'm thinking I should try .005" thick patches, or maybe even smaller balls to get more than a few shots between cleanings. Is this a good approach? Any suggestions? As you may have seen from a previous post, I'll be on a 3-day hike with these, so cleaning won't be easy on the trail (but I may have a lot of kids who want to try a shot). I don't care as much about accuracy as ease of loading and minimizing cleaning - at least on this trip.
Thanks
Doug
Thanks
Doug