Reeder Custom Guns - Shhhhh! Chemistry at work.

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A chemistry lesson; mercury can flow through the tiniest microscopic holes. Like through a paper plug covered tightly with plastic tape. It is also “magnetic” if charged and a devil to clean up scattered on the floor in head of pin sized balls.

But the 80 yr. old trick works just as well as it did in the 1940’s as I read.

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My load of 6.0 gr. Unique in a .460 S&W case, card wad, fiber lube wad, and two 138 gr. lubed pure lead .451 round balls, it was sure. (Roman has a mess to clean up, they shot a 55 gal. Sand filled plastic drum in half?!)
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Three shots at 20 yds. .451 balls upset to fill a .45 smooth bore, then slam into a very calculated throat to be rudely sized to the .430” rifled portion at the end. Only three shots, averaged 850 fps, second hole from bottom was three balls in the same hole! All six balls for three shots on target. Interesting stringing. Wait till the Bear is standing!!! Lol
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lower with the one behind running higher. I cannot believe I shot that super tight group, three in one hole. These circles are more credible. Goerg showed how soft lead bullets deform in flight, actually in bore passage. There were pure lead muzzleloading Speer balls. Certainly they ended up being basically flat ended cylinders.

Perhaps my "group" with the Paradox Buckshot was the lowest three circles, second balls represent the three higher circles.

What do you think of my theory?

Actual three shots
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"First" ball groups vs 2nd.
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Shhhhh! Chemistry at work.

That’s a BAD case of barrel leading.

Not anymore! I’ll forgo the details…

Shot stringing is interesting, I think the first balls hit