Originally Posted by
Rompin Ruger
RFD has been my mentor with my newly acquired GPR 50 cal. I use a concoction Rob calls Gato Feo, which is tallow, beeswax and parafin... rub into strips, heat with hair dryer and let dry, roll, and cut at muzzle.
I am still working on refining the patch thickness and the charge volume of BP...recently switched to SWISS powder in 3f reputed to burn cleaner ad a touch faster then some...
I mic'd till I went cross-eyed and find that the way I mic is apparently different then what/how the commercial vendors do it. As my mentor says, "actual doesn't matter as much as the accuracy you get and how hard you want to work to seat the ball".
Finding shot patches was instructive as some were blown out badly... which isn't a good thing, I'm told. So like adult diapers: it depends!