Not a good start, thought I'd start a baker blog to chart my progress, or lack of it :oops:
http://www.robinhewitt.net/blog/
Interesting Blog read. Something you might want to consider. I use TC No. 13 to clean with and have found that Moose Milk also does a credible job. I put the breach in a small can (#303) half full of solution and use the cleaning jag and patch to pump the solution up and down the barrel and through he touch hole. The I use a 20 ga. bore brush to get into the grooves and a breach brush to clean the face of the breach. Then it is a matter of running dry patches down the bore until it is dry. The trick for me seams to be running dry patches down the bore afterwords until there is absolutely no moisture at all. With my cleaning jag I can force two cleaning patches at a time down the bore and really get into the grooves. I then use Borebutter liberally inside and out to protect the bore. So far no rust just shine.
As for humid weather, my flinters work fine in it for the most part. I have a .36 cal squirrel gun with a patten breach that hates it because the channel fro the breach to the false breach is extremely small (just about the same size as a QTip shaft) condensation there prevents the powder from getting into the breach and hence firing. As for the rest of the condensation, I've found that wiping the pan with a rag just before loading works very well.
I'm wondering just how much powder you're priming with. Also what it is the diameter of your touch hole? Remember that filling the pan will result in the flash having to "fuse" into the touch hole and that takes time.
As for sights, 200 yds? :lol:
Best of luck and keep up the blog, I'll be reading.
