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Hoever, as many concoctions as I have run into for shooting BP, I must admit this is the first I have heard of "Wiping Fluid." Obviously, I need to get out more. However, I don't actually see where "Cutting Oil" would or even could be more effective than PAM for swabbing out a bore during a match. Or even just a fun shooting session. I would simply chamber up a fired case, squirt some PAM down the bore, run a wet patch (PAM again) through then an oily patch with Mobil 1 motor oil. Eject the case (important .. that) and continue. Of course, I don't shoot BPCR, so my opinion is rather moot. Just something to express on a boring Sunday afternoon.
Hello My Dear Bored Coffin
briefly:
what Sam and Ranch said.
a longer, less boring discussion:
what you are suggesting is excellent advice for the standard casual BP CAS shooter.
BROW (this subforum) is about Buffalo Rifles of the Old West: long range shooting matches and about the rifles used in the "old days" to harvest buffalo hides.
and thus BPCR implies amazing and possibley psychotic world of the long-range Black Powder Cartridge Shooters.
How long range? When I was young and frisky and foolish I used to think 300 yards was LR.
Then after some education from some National Guard targe shooters a t work thought 500 meters was long range.
Then I read in magazines about
silohuette silouette shooting steel pigs and turkeys
Then i got some books ( remember them? before the interwebs?) about the 1500 yard matches at wimbledon in the 1870's.
I CAN"T EVEN SEE THAT FAR!!!!
and I am reading about the insanely long shooting the BPCR guys are doing now out to 2000 plus yards
then I saw this:
http://blog.davide-pedersoli.com/2000-m-shot-with-a-pedersoli-gibbs-45-long-range-target-rifle/that's a .45 cal muzzleloader using an elongated cylinderical bullet, so it's about the same as a .45-90 or .45-100 or .45-110 ....
but it's still a muzzle-loader.
Sooooo
these guys ARE different
They learn how to read the wind at different spots down the range.
They learn about vortex, cortex, spindrift,
corrialis, coelll coriolis effect.
They take into account temperature, humidty, altitude, time of year...
I think some of them take into account the position of the moon for gravitational and tidal effect.
They use fouling shots, blow-tubes, wipe between shots, weigh each bullet, weigh each cartridge case, and more stuff I don't even care to know
it's a different crazy world. I fully expect them to do "different stuff" prior to shooting, during shooting, before cleaning , after cleaning, and probably
after they get home before putting away. I would not be surprised if someone plugged his bore at both ends and fiulled it with magic
rifle pixie oil before putting it away!
So...
here's some discussion for those of us who are bored....
yhs
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