the purpose of fouling the bbl of a muzzy (with a primer/no powder) is not for accuracy, though it might help, it's to remove oil and dry the bbl/nipple/breach plug that could cause the primer to fail.
Here is the link to the other conversation... http://fohaf.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4309&hilit=mossberg+muzzleloader
I read that fouling the barrel with 2-3 primers and no powder was to dry the barrel.
So let me see if i got this straight. I cleaned my barrel the night before a hunt and I put it away with a light oily patch thru the barrel to protect it over night.
The morning of the hunt, I need to clean out the oil from the barrel, before I load the powder/ammo? I can do this by running dry patches or fouling the barrel?
Hmm...
oil will kill primers. a patch alone may or may not work, but will help. if you run a patch or boresnake, 1 primer fouling "should" work.that's how I do it and have never had a prob. but I use 209 primers which are hotter than norm.
If you zero your gun in on a spotless clean barrel, and foul it with a cap/primer i will bet you my house it will shoot different. A clean barrel will shoot higher. On my 4 muzzleloaders it does anyways. Hence the reason i zero my guns in and hunt with tbem on a clean unfouled barrel. Several dry patches down the barrel and qtips in the breech hole. I use a piecd of painters tape over the bbl once loaded to keep humidity out. I have never fouled a bbl with a cap in almost 30 years of ml hunting and never had a misfire or hang fire doing things the way i do
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