Dirty bore shooting

[Don McDowell]

My Shiloh 44-77 chambers with the 7 degree leed shoot well, and as an aside on that, the fired cases from those chambers fit perfectly in an original Remington 16 lb barrel rifle..
Shooting dirty success is best achieved using the dual diameter bullet Brooks and others call the original sharps style bullet. The base of the bullet is only a few thousands smaller than the bore diameter, and the nose around .005 smaller. Mostly I use the seth cole 55 w wet wrapped. The bullet is seated so that the base diameter is just short of the lands. Wad stack is fairly simple a napa cork wad and a muzzle loader original dry lubed felt wad. I also wipe the patch with jojoba oil after the bullet is seated in the case. Jojoba oil also works well with a straight sided bullet such as the one I use in my 40-70.