Daryl, I will try next time with a card over powder and a greased felt wad and see how that will go. That might overcome the fouling and make loading few subsequent shots do able, currently I am using a steel range rod, so ver valid point about the fouling. I am wondering if they may have used greased wads as part of the load originally. Trying will at least see if it will work ok. I had fired wads with the early shots when I had just the under sized ball mould and was using leather from riggers gloves basically just to start slicking up the bore. The early groups were understandably poor.