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jrock, I just use a spit patch or two on the ramrod, followed by a dry patch, before I load the next charge. I do that on the range because there's time to do it and you want the best performance with each shot when shooting paper. I also do it when hunting except when I need to shoot at another squirrel that's there and probably won't wait on me. When you can feel the fouling as you seat a patched ball, it's time to swab the bore a little.
I'm mystified about what could be causing your rifle to shoot that high at 100 yards when it's only a little high at 25 yards. If you had a really, really highly mounted scope I could understand, but not with open sights mounted on the barrel. I would just go shoot a lot of groups to make sure it wasn't some kind of flukish thing and then adjust the sights accordingly. As we all know from our old BB gun days, you get familiar with a gun, shoot it enough and, heck, you don't need those dang sights anyhow!
Steve
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