How does COW or corn meal contribute to fouling? Fouling is caused by burning black powder.
You are putting me in the position of defending someone else's opinion.
I think the guy's opinion was the burning COW would cause additional fouling. He may be right. Burning anything will make soot and ash and perhaps it does contribute to the fouling.
How does COW migrate into the powder, it is poured on top of the powder? There is no mixing action/agitation in the cylinder between the two?
As I tried to explain before, it happened to me when I did not put enough COW under the ball and the loading ram did not push the ball down far enough to hit the COW. So the powder and COW were loose together under the ball. Just handling, cocking, and shooting the gun was enough to shake it and mix the powder and COW.
COW does not nor will compress, that is down side to COW. If you put too much COW in the cylinder, you cannot fully seat the ball. You have to remove the nipple and remove a small amount of powder and re-install the nipple to seat the ball so the cylinder will rotate in the frame. Corn meal will compress and you can fully seat a ball if it is too far forward for the cylinder to spin in the frame.
Yup. Or you can take a pocket knife and just scrape off the protruding nose of the bullet, in a pinch.
You would have to put “multiple wads on top of the powder to get the balls to the front of the cylinder.
Yes, that is the idea. Fill the empty void with wads.
How is COW going to go backward into an explosion and disperse into it, there is no explosive force in front of the COW, only the ball and lube?
Because the chamber instantly becomes a cloud of hot explosive gas. No doubt most of the COW is probably already in a dense cake from being compressed under the ball, and it probably compresses further under the detonation. However it seems likely that some of the COW may be consumed in the explosion also. Of course, it's entirely possible that some of a wad would likewise be consumed, but it seems more likely that the COW, being essentially dust, would be more likely to act as a flame inhibitor than a solid chunk of wool. But then, maybe it has no effect at all.
Personally, I think it doesn't really matter. The key of firearm accuracy is load consistency. You could fill half the chamber will jell-o and still develop a good accurate load as long as you do it the same way every time.
After struggling for some time, one of the Masters next to me, said let’s talk. He took me to the parking lot and was blunt. He said you do not have a clue on what you are doing. My learning was from key board experts thus far. He said you have a good revolver, here is how you need to load it, the loading sequence, the loading components he provided and the loading order. He said bring me my things, after you finish, and he would be on the shot gun range.
That's a nice story. Some day I hope to be as edjucumated as you about shooting.
Steve
