Germans and their balls

[Farsight]

Given the popularity of "nominal 4mm" Zimmerstutzens from a tremendous variety of low-volume makers in the late 1800's, I've assumed that bore size and rifling varied enough that precision shooting required the ideal size to fit a particular gun. Those Bürger were serious about their accuracy.

Don R.

That's about the size of it !

[Jerry Cornelius]

It turns out there was an interesting answer to this and a specific sort of German shooting, a bit like our bell target I guess:

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmerstutzen

(In German but you can translate in safari at least, though you do get some comic results, eg apparently the shooting is called “room nozzle”, which I guess sounds better in German)

Some shooters therefore use (sometimes mysterious) means to anoint the balls to improve shooting precision; oiling the balls before shooting is commonplace

I have not tried this myself but will certainly now consider anointing my balls before shooting to see if it improves my performance

[gingernut]

Never helped my shooting much

[Jerry Cornelius]

Never helped my shooting much

I think you need to use Präzisionsschießballöl