The 40-90 saga continues, I have been fighting the usual heavy fouling at the case mouth, havn't found anything yet, but still working on it. it seems from looking at my load data that the heavier loads are shooting better. I  expected that seating the bullet out in the case would improve the accurecy, and it did. (about .125 in the case) I am shooting ten shot groups only @ 100 yds. I am down to 3 1/2 inches, I would like to see consistant 2 inch or better groups. My grease cookies are 75% bees wax and 25% lanilin. I am pouring this mix over a sheet of 3/16's felt and cutting the cookies at .413 for my .405 bore kreiger bbl.  after each shot I have to wipe the bbl to chamber the next round. the fouling in the first 2 inches of the bore comes out the end of the bbl looking like burnt grass!!! am I doing the cookie thing right or is this someting else I'm thirty years behind on?  the rifle is an old rebarreled shiloh, 40-90BN. I expected some fouling from the BN, but being able to get a second shot would be nice.  PP bullets, .405, no free bore   all help is greatly apprieciated,  Dave.

Chris, the rifle is twisted 1/16, the bullet is a nose pour that weighs 379 grn.  I think I may make some improvment w/ a 400 grn, but I have not purchased a mould as of yet. my paper is 100% cotton,  .0025 thk.  are my grease cookies alright?   Dave.

Chris, gas cutting is probably the only thing that hasn't happened to me yet. I am using a .063 veg. wad on top of the powder, two 3/16's felt grease cookies, a thin paper wad, which leaves me about an eighth of an inch to press in the bullet with my thumb, so all of the bullet is in the rifling but the last 1/8th. I can see some paper imprinting pattern on the base of recovered slugs, no signs of cutting, or slipping in the rifling, the patch is coming off in the first 6ft of bullet flight. I have some loaded w/90grns of 1 1/2 swiss that I have not shot yet, tomorrow sometime.  would there be any difference in the amount of fouling between one f and one and one half f?   Dave.

rg, I'll try some with out any wads, haven't done that for a while, may work, who knows? it'll be worth the try.   I normally wipe with a wet soapy patch and then two dry, leaves the bore pretty good most of the time. every once in a while(1 out of 20 or so) I'll have some hard fouling in the throat that won't let me chamber the next round, another wet patch gets it though(probably just something I'm doing)I'll post up and let you know how it goes.    Dave.

Chris, the inside wrap of my paper is coming off in one piece, the outside is coming off in small pieces, however I've not noticed any thing burnt, next session I will watch the pieces of paper closely to see if there is any leaking. I have ten ready to go without any over powder wads, I fully expect to find burnt paper there and maybe a burnt bullet. would it help to compress the load some?  it will be hard to do as 90 grns fills the case to the bottom of the neck and even a little compression will put the charge down in the case.  I have several pounds of Goex 1-f which is a much coarser powder than the swiss, might work, but have not had much luck with it before.   tried some 4759 a month ago, left the bore clean enough to get two more rounds shot without wiping but recoiled a lot harder, so I stopped that. (6grns under 90grns 1-f swiss) Dave.

Gun, mine is doing what your 45-110 is doing, to the tee, my paper is 100% cotton .0025 thick on a .395 bullet which gives me bore size patched bullets (.405).  should work!   Dave.

It seems to me that I read somewhere on this forum about compressing the powder will help with the fouling that the bottleneck cases are prone to do. is there any help besides a small charge of some kind of smokless??  I would rather not, but if I have to in order to get a second shot without wiping I will.  Dave.