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recurve shooter:
stickbender, thanks, i'll clean it like that. i know it'll rust bad.  ;D

ok so i upped the charge to a hudred grains FF, and went out back and shot it about twenty times. (ouch.  :'()
here are the results. i was shooting off of a little sapling tree. not perfectly stable but close. at something like thirty or fourty yards i was grouping high left. i got it tuned it hitting bulseye, but every shot varied by about an inch in random directions. i decided i was content with that, as the inch or so varriation may have been me, and moved a target out to about a hundred and twenty yards, cuz i was currious. first shot off my sapling rest compleatly missed my one by 3 foot backstop. so i reloaded and layed prone, proped on a stick (that hurt even worse lol) and let her rip again. that shot hit dead on as far as windage, but about a foot high. after all that i looked for some spent patches, and found a bunch of pieces of patch. its demolishing my patches. so i guess my cloth isnt thick enough, i would assume that would account for my troubles huh?  ??? ???

mullet:
 Try running a cleaning patch after each shot. The more you shoot, the more residue you build up in the barrel. This causes you to have more back pressure and will make your shots start climbing or shoot erratic.

recurve shooter:
will do mullet. ok so my walmart dont have ANY fabric, so i cant get ticking there, and hobby lobby seems to have everything EXCEPT ticking.  >:(

mullet:
 Cut up some cotton sheets or pillow cases.

recurve shooter:
would that be much different from the cotton cloth i bought? it seems like it would work well but it desentigrates in the barrel when it shoots and i tried to like double-patch it but i cant get it to go down the barrel with tow patches around it.  >:(

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