Iīm about as fresh as they come when it comes to PP. Please have that in mind.
Thus i appreciate that iīm doing something wrong cause the net result at the range is laughable. Beyond poor.
Altho i own a bunch of old originals,and those perform,the two newest guns do not.
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First one up is a Wesson style rifle. An old original,that has been worked on before i enter the picture (bought it like 2 weeks ago). Have had it apart completely,slugged it and so on per usual.
Rifling twist is approx 1:30
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Second rifle up is a Schuetzen style one,Swiss made of course. Rifling twist 1:28.
Both rifles are to be regarded as 41/43 cal rifles and as such the molds available are rather scarce to me where i live in Sweden so iīve opted to run with the LEE 379/250. A flatnosed job with grease grooves.
In doing so iīve also made a couple of "shims" that elongate the given boolit to a weight of 370 grains.
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Right. So for the Schuetzen rifle iīve PPīd with tracing paper,essentially. Diamond/rhombus shaped patch,of course. Applied wet.
At the top end of the boolit the patch stretches into the ogive section of it,see pictures.
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Wesson rifle in turn gets a heavier gauge paper,around here known as "heavy duty" such. A ribbed,for lack of better words,jobbie.
Now.
The Wesson rifle i really havenīt leaned into yet but one thingīs for sure and that is that the thing sure doesnīt print where the scope tells. Scope then having been set with a laser guide.
The Schuetzen in turn though,that thing is literally all over the map. Regardless if i use the 250 or 370 grain boolit. Very similar results,and please have in mind that this rifle "should" run hole in hole at 100 meters.
Weīre VERY far from that.
Seeing their old rifles,both of them,the rifling of both is in a downright good state. Rifling is sharp and defined and thereīs about zero pittings and so forth. On a scale of 1 to 10 iīd give them both an easy 8.
Muzzle loaders theyīre both,of course,and as such i use regular RWS 1075īs for ignition. Powder charge thus far all the way up to 90 grains worth of holy black.
Have tried with T7 too..similar results.
I canīt but be of the notion that iīm doing something wrong here. The little picket carbine or the Schuetzen no matter,and the one nomer theyīve got in common is the paper patching.
Today i put like 35ish rounds through the Schuetzen at steel sillouettes at a mere 50 meters...and the damn thingīll hit where it kind of feels like it. Just partly better accuracy than a smoothbore scattergun approx.
It all "feels" correct. The way i load and set things. Ignition is without doubt and to the point. The approx 15lbs Schuetzen rifle about laughs at what i hand it when it comes to fudder. Recoil is very manageable due the weight of the rifle.
Ie;no issues what so ever firing the thing all day at 100 grains of powder,all day need be.
So. Why is accuracy lacking as much as it is?