Couple of miscellaneous tips (you've had some very good advice in this thread): (1) Don't put a lot of pressure on the wads once they're down on the powder. There's an old tradition to bang the rod on the wad till it bounces--don't do it. W. Greener in 1835 published his findings on this and found a wad simply touching the powder resulted in a much cleaner burning gun with noticably faster ignition. (2) If able, use bronze nipples, they don't wear the iron threads on your breech as much.

Recommended reading: W. Greener's book, "The Gun", 1835. Found at Google Books and can read online.

Good shooting! I'm envious of your WR.

Last edited by Joe Wood; 09/23/10 08:43 PM.
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