James Lang 32 bore

[Kensal Rise]

If you do choose to load smokeless in your cartridges, please do NOT fill empty case space with Dacron. Use cotton! Otherwise, you risk ringing a chamber/barrel. I know this from sad experience. A noted writer uses Dacron, but it is only a matter of time before a ring appears for him. Cotton is not expensive, naturally combustible and is totally safe. Especially for the number of rounds you may shoot in this .577.

[Elk Hunter]

Originally Posted by John Campbell

If you do choose to load smokeless in your cartridges, please do NOT fill empty case space with Dacron. Use cotton! Otherwise, you risk ringing a chamber/barrel. I know this from sad experience. A noted writer uses Dacron, but it is only a matter of time before a ring appears for him. Cotton is not expensive, naturally combustible and is totally safe. Especially for the number of rounds you may shoot in this .577.

Thanks for the warning. I do use Dacron and have for years in many older larger caliber rifles including my Cogswell & Harrison 577 which I have fired many hundreds of rounds through. The well known writer you speak of is probably the same one I call a friend and who emphatically warns against using foam wads as they will cause chamber ringing. Wherein is the truth of the matter? I certainly don't know. Cotton may work well but I suspect it would be much the same as Dacron and would be expelled from the muzzle as Dacron is pretty much unchanged rather than consumed.

Please don't feel I'm being critical, I do appreciate your concern, I just wish there was some definitive answer to what really does cause chamber ringing.

Best regards,

D. Jones aka Elk Hunter