In my over 40 years shooting Teflon patches and making the Teflon sprayed
patching I will say that nothing I have ever found will beat it. Why do you think
it dominates the Nationals at Friendship? Now when it comes to the single shot
pistols it seems to be a different story. When I got my first real pistol for accuracy the Cimmarron Mark1 match pistol I thought I would use a Teflon patch. Wrong. Very hard to load and it didn't shoot worth a darn. I was trying a
bore size ball with .010 Teflon patch. This with a Green Mt. 45 barrel. I had to
make a lube up with 2oz water souable cutting oil with a quart of water. Some
call this moose milk, panther -CENSORED--CENSORED--CENSORED--CENSORED-, goat snot and so on. But it was the most used
patch lube at the Nationals before Teflon came on. It worked! With a bore size
ball and .017 thick patch the pistol would shoot 1 1/2 five shot groups at 50 yards. In other words , it will keep all shots inside the "X" ring at 50 yard on a
regular NRA 50 yard pistol target. I since use this lube in all our pistols, all calibers. Wet the patch and squeeze out enought to have a wet patch, but not dripping. Pistols just seem to be different than rifles in loading. In over 40 years
of shooting Teflon, I have not had any buildup in any of our rifles. You do want
to dampen the un-coated side with spit or water before loading. Just dampen not
wet. Hope this helps some.
Phil