FiremarshalBill
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- Feb 4, 2016
My experience with shooting black powder arms is very limited but I've heard musket barrels during the ACW could get very dirty after firing a few shots, making it harder and harder to ram home a minie or a ball with each shot. So how many shots would it actually take before a barrel became so fouled that it became difficult to load? Were these results affected by the type, quality, or dampness of the black powder being fired? I assume arsenal ammunition was more standardized and reliable, but was it any cleaner than "home-rolled" in the field ammunition? Was accuracy affected by a dirty barrel? Just curious.