Black Powder Cleaner

[MikePal]

Hi MikePal-not challenging You,but what is wrong with Bore Butter?
I use it on my TC Omega for 10 years or so for yearly storage....so far ,so good?

Thanx

Just experience...I used it the first year I had side lock (closed end bore) and come spring put a pull thru and it came Orange. It took most of the morning to get it cleaned out and barrel polished back up.

Maybe it works better in the in-lines with the breach plug removed and air can circulate.

Bore butter, especially the biodegradable natural stuff is nowhere near comparable to a CLP product like Breakfree for storage/presevation. Why not just use it, like you do on all your other barrels ?

take a read thru these comments on the issue;

https://www.shootersforum.com/muzzle...ased-oils.html

[MikePal]

MikePal, when we shot this gun the first time at your place the cleaner we used was all I used, this residue did not occur in that case. What was that stuff? Do they sell it locally? I think the Hornady stuff will be removed from the BP cleaning kit.

I think we cleaned the barrel with Birchwood Casey "Muzzle Magic Cleaner'..stuff works great to get you to a clean patch. I see it occasionally at different stores (Old Joe's had some) .....basically it's main ingredient is isopropyl alcohol. The Hornady stuff probably works fine to clean just not preserve.

If I remember correctly, we then ran a swap of Breakfree down the pipe to lube/preserve the barrel.

[Fox]

I think we cleaned the barrel with Birchwood Casey "Muzzle Magic Cleaner'..stuff works great to get you to a clean patch. I see it occasionally at different stores (Old Joe's had some) .....basically it's main ingredient is isopropyl alcohol. The Hornady stuff probably works fine to clean just not preserve.

If I remember correctly, we then ran a swap of Breakfree down the pipe to lube/preserve the barrel.

I do not remember doing that, I will check it tonight and see if things are frosty again after running CLP through it last night.

[bellerivercrossbowhunter]

With my savage 10MLii smokeless.
Hoppes #9 Black Powder solvent to clean the sabot residue.
Then coat the entire gun in CLP.

[Fox]

With my savage 10MLii smokeless.
Hoppes #9 Black Powder solvent to clean the sabot residue.
Then coat the entire gun in CLP.

Why are you bothering with a BP solvent? Any shotgun cleaner will clean out the sabot residue, smokeless does not have the same issues as BP.

[MikePal]

Hoppes #9 Black Powder solvent to clean the sabot residue

When I first saw that product, the word 'solvent' made me think it was specifically for cleaning up BH209. Never gave it a second glance as I was still using T7.

Maybe I'll take another look at it.

[bellerivercrossbowhunter]

Why are you bothering with a BP solvent? Any shotgun cleaner will clean out the sabot residue, smokeless does not have the same issues as BP.

Good point!

After my sighting in session & ML hunting week the bore was spotless and didn't need to be cleaned

[Fox]

Good point!

After my sighting in session & ML hunting week the bore was spotless and didn't need to be cleaned

I have never noticed a plastic residue from sabots in a rifled shotgun, with a tighter choke on a shotgun I have noticed the plastic residue but never on sabot slugs, although I am sure there is some.

Black powder is nasty to clean up, I give you that, budget and age dictate its use though, or substitutes.

The cool project is not the round ball gun but the rimfire loads, making ammo for a 25 Stevens with BP as it is the only known powder burn rate for this gun.

[gunter]

I have been using BB for years on my Thompson ML.
I never had rust issues maybe because the barrel is stainless.

[gbk]

I think we cleaned the barrel with Birchwood Casey "Muzzle Magic Cleaner'..stuff works great to get you to a clean patch. I see it occasionally at different stores (Old Joe's had some) .....basically it's main ingredient is isopropyl alcohol. The Hornady stuff probably works fine to clean just not preserve.

If I remember correctly, we then ran a swap of Breakfree down the pipe to lube/preserve the barrel.

Thank You MikePal interesting read