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05-24-2009, 11:48 AM

Adam Helmer Adam Helmer is offline

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Mike,

I use .010" precut patches in the .45, .50 and .54. I get good accuracy and shoot 3 to 5 balls before I need to swab the bore. Some guys use a .015" patch for the first loading of the clean bore and use .010" patches thereafter.

I use .440, .490 and .530 balls with very good results.

Adam

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