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Re: Reduced bp loads
Reply #30 - Dec 31st, 2019 at 8:06pm
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Fred Boulton wrote on Dec 31st, 2019 at 11:59am:
I have a Swiss Federale Stutzen muzzle loader, model of 1851. The original ramrod had an ajustable stop on it to avoid compressing the powder. The Swiss maintained that keeping the combustion chamber volume constant was the important thing.
These were, and are, the most accurate military muzzle loaders ever made.
Fred

more accurate than the Rigby  snipers ? 😀
  
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Reply #31 - Jan 1st, 2020 at 1:14pm
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I agree that when using black powder an air gap either between the powder and the bullet or between the over-powder wad and the bullet is not a problem.  Not so with smokeless.

Here's more on the subject in a article I wrote some time ago.

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Reply #32 - Jan 1st, 2020 at 3:02pm
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     Interesting discussion.   I know of several cases where long-range ML rifles have developed a ring in the bbl ahead of the powder charge.   How might this happen?    I had always supposed it might have been from a mis-fire where the cap flash has pushed the bullet ahead a short distance, and a subsequent firing with a new cap might cause a ring.  Any more hypotheses?
     In the meantime, never say never?

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Re: Reduced bp loads
Reply #33 - Jan 1st, 2020 at 6:20pm
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When I used Bill Crane's reduced .45-70 loads for our 200 yd offhand military matches, we filled the empty space with cornmeal.
  
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