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" I must be old school, but I like hot water and Dawn to clean."

Then I dry with plenty of patches and then I season with Bore Butter. Been doing this since 1985. Still have a clean bore today.

Ken

Sure you do. I get a chuckle every time i hear someone say they seasoned a bore....too funny.

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clean a muzzleloader?????

At the range I use car windshield washer fluid with a splash of dawn. At home I use dawn and hot water followed up by dry patches then rem oil. My 54 flintlock is 35 years old, and I really try to shoot 100 balls every year before the post Christmas season. The barrel is cherry after decades, and thousands of rounds. I never let it dirty overnight. This year I am switching to a 50 caliber RMC carbine. I'll probably use that foamy sabot cleaner stuff to ge plastic out of the rifling.

6 patch cleaning routine
involves butches black powder bore shine and remoil
and a boresnake for 2 final passes

i discharge my gun at the end of each day and hunt with a clean barrel and breech plugand fresh load

takes about 20 minutes to clean it my way, the same way, each time........

A half naked hot french maid.

My wife tolerates my gun obsession, but I highly doubt I would still be married if I used this type of cleaner.

I thought I was the only one to use powerfoam on a gun.
It isn't cheap but if you're a mechanic and have a can around (I buy it by the case) it works great.
It will also strip the plastic fowling left from wads in a shotgun barrel better than anything I have tried.

I do this and I use black powder.

Master gun maker Steve Zihn made a flintlock for me. I asked him what to clean it with, he told me a mixture of Hydrogen Peroxide, rubbing Alcohol, and Murphy's soap.
He said he could clean his muzzleloader quicker then he could clean his AR15.
He was right, it astonished me how quick I got a clean patch. I always go back after it has dried with (Another tip he gave me) best gun oil ever Mobil 1 Synthetic 5W.

dogs- what is the "recipe" for the three ingredients- if you wouldn't mind. Thanks

It has been awhile. I know the alcohol to peroxide is 1 part to 1 not sure if I can remember how much murphy's.
May have to contact Steve to get that. His number is on the net.

I may have it wrote down somewhere will have to get back to ya

I found one recipe that called for equal parts of all 3.
You do not leave in long, plug one your nipple or flash hole with a tooth pick pour about half full, hold your thumb over the other end, turn your barrel up and down about 3 times. Let drain and run a couple of patches through it.

Windex with vinegar.


BCPR's get Ballistol, muzzle loaders get bore butter.

Thanks- I'll have to try that!

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Hydrogen Peroxide is an oxidizer that is why you do not leave it in long. As long as you run patches until you get a dry patch and then go back with a good lube

guncleaner

I have used this for years with no problems in both a Hawkins and an inline. miles

I use Shooters choice after using bh209. I follow it up with a really good gun oil . When i used FFG or Pyrodex I just used Hot water and Dawn .

Dawn and hot water to clean it up.

My kid bought me some Frog Lube, which I've been using on all my guns this year.

Not sure if Frog Lube works any better than the others, but it sure smells better.