Length of Patch-Oil

[Dan]

Kenny, my opinion is that if you have a patch length that extends to slightly beyond the shank/ogive break that you're covered, no pun intended. More serves no benefit and may present problems.

I know very little about the vagaries of patches and oil, but my recollection about the chase patch as related by SPG and Rich Hicks was use of a dry patch in a bore that was oiled before seating the bullet. I think Rich swabbed just the first part of the barrel, maybe 6-12" or something like that. At the 2009 NRC shoot his bullet slipped the patch during loading in one of the matches and time rules precluded pulling it. Leaded bore knocked him out of the race.

I've looked the different patching techniques over a bit and while a Chase patch might be the cat's meow it always struck me as fraught with potential disaster. I'll probably avoid that as long as I can........