Bore swabbing between shots

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Originally Posted by MtnMike2

Opinions? Experience?

Moisture is the key to being able to shoot without wiping between shots...it has to be in the bore to keep the fouling soft...it gets there by either being sucked out of humid air immediately after a shot if you happen to have high humidity the day you're shooting, or the lube being used has to be wet enough.

If the fouling is kept soft with moisture, each next patched ball will wipe the bore clean as its being seated...that little bit of fouling will be ejected on the next shot and the bore will have quantity one shot's worth of fouling on it again. Then the next patched ball wipes the bore again, the cycle repeats for every shot, over and over.

In late spring & summer months here in NC the humidity is usually high enough that I can use Natural Lube 1000 prelubed patches and run 50 shots without wiping. But in the colder / drier air of late fall and winter, I have to switch to a liquid lube to do that and use Hoppes N09 PLUS BP.
I take a bag of NL1000 prelubed patches and just squeeze in a few squirts of Hoppes into the bag...squish them all around so the patches get glistening wet and shoot a whole range session that way.

Moisture in the bore is the key...