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Essential items
#2948298
11/07/19 10:13 AM
11/07/19 10:13 AM
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Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 10,501 Central, Al
Bustinbeards
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Booner
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Booner
Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 10,501
Central, Al
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I know keeping muzzle loader clean and in working condition is more work than a rifle. What are some of the essential items you feel are needed to keep it clean and the barrel in great condition? What is your method?
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Re: Essential items
[Re: Bustinbeards]
#2948381
11/07/19 11:15 AM
11/07/19 11:15 AM
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Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 7,561 Hartselle, AL
trlrdrdave
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 7,561
Hartselle, AL
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I take mine apart and take it in the shower with me. Wash it out with hot water and dry it. run a patch with bore butter down it is about all I ever do. Except grease the breech plug.
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Re: Essential items
[Re: Bustinbeards]
#2948478
11/07/19 12:40 PM
11/07/19 12:40 PM
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Joined: Jun 2014
Posts: 6,876 Shelby Co, AL
CatHeadBiscuit
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Jun 2014
Posts: 6,876
Shelby Co, AL
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I take the barrel off the gun and put 3 drops of dawn soap in a gallon of very hot water. I set the breech end into the bucket and run a tight patch up and down inside the barrel until it is drawing hot soapy water up the barrel and getting it too hot to hang on to. Then run hot water alone through it with a clean patch next then dry it with the blow drier. Before reassembly I run a patch with bore butter up and down multiple times. Flip the patch over and rub the metal down and then reassemble.
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Re: Essential items
[Re: Bustinbeards]
#2948517
11/07/19 01:19 PM
11/07/19 01:19 PM
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Joined: Dec 2016
Posts: 10,314 northport
deadeye48
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Booner
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Posts: 10,314
northport
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Basically I clean as I would with a modern rifle with the exception of using a torch tip cleaner to clean the flash hole
When I need expert advice I tend to talk to myself The older I get the better I used to be
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Re: Essential items
[Re: CatHeadBiscuit]
#2948677
11/07/19 03:16 PM
11/07/19 03:16 PM
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Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 9,877 in the corner
Stob
14 point
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14 point
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Posts: 9,877
in the corner
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I take the barrel off the gun and put 3 drops of dawn soap in a gallon of very hot water. I set the breech end into the bucket and run a tight patch up and down inside the barrel until it is drawing hot soapy water up the barrel and getting it too hot to hang on to. Then run hot water alone through it with a clean patch next then dry it with the blow drier. Before reassembly I run a patch with bore butter up and down multiple times. Flip the patch over and rub the metal down and then reassemble. Dawn works. Hot water in the bathtub with wire brush. Get that barrel really hot when you rinse, that will help it dry. Then I swab the bore with some TC bore butter.
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Re: Essential items
[Re: Bustinbeards]
#2948694
11/07/19 03:37 PM
11/07/19 03:37 PM
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Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 14,561 Tuscaloosa Co.
N2TRKYS
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Booner
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Posts: 14,561
Tuscaloosa Co.
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I don't do anything special to mine. Soapy water in the sink cleans the flash hole of mine. I never put water down my barrel. A couple of wet patches followed with a couple of brush strokes cleans my barrel right up. I don't foul my barrel before I shoot mine.
Do not forget to put your antiseize on your breech plug before putting it back on.
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Re: Essential items
[Re: Bustinbeards]
#2954393
11/13/19 07:51 AM
11/13/19 07:51 AM
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Joined: Feb 2002
Posts: 44,211 North Alabama
Wiley Coyote
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Feb 2002
Posts: 44,211
North Alabama
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Patches, solvent, patches, solvent and a final dry patch. Clean the breech plug real good with solvent and be sure the flash hole is clean.
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Re: Essential items
[Re: Bustinbeards]
#2963541
11/22/19 12:23 PM
11/22/19 12:23 PM
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Joined: Nov 2017
Posts: 167 Jacksonville, AL
CVAwolf
3 point
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3 point
Joined: Nov 2017
Posts: 167
Jacksonville, AL
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I run a wet patch thru a few times to remove powder residue. Then brush a few times through. Then wet patches until all residue is gone. Then I run my oiled pad thru to lubricate barrel. On breech plug, qtip wet with cleaner to remove powder. Use a guitar string, cut off a few inches from the little circle thing in the string, and that it's my plug hole cleaner. You'll have to use one of the strings that aren't wound which is just solid wire. I play guitar so want hard to get used strings lol
Then I just use pipe dope for the threads. Its high temp/pressure so it works great.
I also don't fire any caps before hunting because there is no reason IMO.
Last edited by CVAwolf; 11/22/19 12:36 PM.
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Re: Essential items
[Re: CVAwolf]
#2963850
11/22/19 05:48 PM
11/22/19 05:48 PM
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Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 6,717 Selma
odocoileus
14 point
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14 point
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Posts: 6,717
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Use a guitar string, cut off a few inches from the little circle thing in the string, and that it's my plug hole cleaner. You'll have to use one of the strings that aren't wound which is just solid wire. I play guitar so want hard to get used strings lol
Sometimes you just gotta say "Damn, why didn't I think of that". That's a great idea for a nipple/breech pick. I'll be stringing one on my powder horn.
Last edited by odocoileus; 11/22/19 05:48 PM.
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