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62 caliber Smooth Bore
Mike Yancey:
Got the nose cap on and the trigger guard as well as started shaping the lock panel and side plate panel. Inletting the ramrod thimbles now and that's it except drilling and tapping the touch hole. The stock is shaping up nice.
Mike Yancey:
Got the ramrod thimbles in.
Now its sights and touch hole and scrape this thing down slim!
Eric Krewson:
That's a good job on the entry pipe, along with buttplates, they are my least favorite job.
Mike Yancey:
https://imgur.com/a/2UWStQZ
It will shoot!
Eric Krewson:
Do you know about the Skychief load? It sounds out of whack but will tighten your pattern considerably, it has for everyone who tried it, myself included. You roll a 1/2" cushion wad in olive oil and put it over your shot, you would think the wad would blow your pattern but it does the reverse. Skychief is the handle of a guy on the M/L forum who was experimenting and came up with this odd load.
27 yards, 1 1/2 oz of #6, 90 gr of 1F, my gun is jug choked but done poorly and never shot a good pattern until I tried the Skychief loading procedure.
I had two barrels jug choked by Caywood, I sold one to a friend and kept one. I should have kept the other one, my jug was poorly cut, his was perfectly cut. With a skychief load his 40 yard pattern looks like mine at 27 yards.
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