Difficulty reloading?

[Underclocked]

Ucsdryder, I don't know if there is similar info here but this old thread has a lot of useful info in helping you deside a load. If a photo is missing, look for it later in the thread... https://www.modernmuzzleloader.com/threads/sabot-bullet-total-diameters-primer-dimensions.9798/

 

[Underclocked]

I guess I can't decide how to spell.

 

[0815]

Here is the question: how does your ML work?
Powder charge and then a bore fitting jacket with a bullet in it. The plastic jacket expands from the pressure into the rifling and out it goes. Right behind a hot gas and powder residue cloud.
The powder residue now is all over the barrel. The most residue is right around where the bottom of your jacket was. Now, you load again and you shove the residue down with your jacket.
Now you fire and the combustion heat will bake on the residue(fouling) onto the barrel.
The baked on residue is very hard and your next shot becomes very diffucult to load.
In order to have a consistant barrel, you need to wipe between shots with a damp patch. The patch is not supposed to fit tight, otherwise you shove the stuff down the barrel on top of your ignition channel. Instead, the patch needs to go down easy because it removes the fouling on the way out. I recommend a little nozzle bottle with moose milk, put a cross on the patch, rub in and wipe.

 

[0815]

Sabotloaders patch can be too wet imho. Too wet a patch is not good for your follow up shot.
The patch needs to be damp enough to get the fouling but not leave slosh at the bottom.
Depending on outside temperature and barrel heat it takes different amount of wiping liquid.
Another good dispenser is a little emtptied and filled with moose milk travel hairspray bottel.
Two sprays in normal and 3 sprays in hot conditions on the patch will do the trick.

 

[Little Jake]

triple 7 is notorious for developing a crud ring and you need to run a quick spit patch between shots or you will struggle to load that second shot. That is the reason Blackhorn 209 became so popular (it doesn't need a spit patch). Try Harvester crush rib sabots as well they go down easy and are the best sabots I've found.