I did quite a bit of shooting yesterday with the Traditions MR Flintlock yesterday and afterward, recovered a good deal of my patches and noticed one thing. Almost all of them had thick chunky fouling/powder stuck to the patch in the center. I was using a spit patch and cut at the muzzle, loading was easy as it should be, but the residue left on the patch has me rethinking about the idea of sucking on a patch. The saliva seems to be causing some nasty build up in the bore over the half dozen shots I took yesterday.