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Hatchet Jack was dead. Nobody alive who isn't a fuggin moron would leave their rifle out in the snow for a week.
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not with bore butter anyway
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If you clean and dry your rifle thoroughly you probably wouldn't have problems with bore butter so long as you store it in the house instead of out in the snowbank. I know I don't.
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I don't believe you can condition or season a bore much as a cast iron skillet. What kind of stuff is going to resist the temperature and friction of a shot or more being fired. A lubed bore will affect the poi, however. In my years of match shooting, I always degreased the bore and then fired one blank load, damp wiped, dry wiped and then fired for record, wiping after each subsequent shot. Now that I only hunt with mls, I sight in using two targets, one for the first shot, the second for a dirty loaded second. Clean and repeat. I clean after each session or hunt and coat the bore with RIG. Our old mantra was clean every day for a week, every week for a month and every month for a year. A little obsessive but you don't get rust. When you paid a C note for a barrel in 1965, you took care of it.
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Frontier muzzleloading makes anti rust and patch lube. Best stuff ever. You won’t be disappointed. It’s great for cleaning, protecting barrel and lubing patches.
“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.” - James Russell Lowell
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Almost as good as Bore Butter, eh? Even if I used his stuff I wouldn't be stupid enough to leave any rifle in a snow bank for a week. That and I'd like to see the historical provenance for Hatchet Jack other than a Hollyweird movie.
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The snow bank was just to show extreme testing levels is all. I used to use bore butter myself but after having my rifles rust up during a hunt, I had enough.
When you can leave your gun outside from December to April and have 2 or 3 tiny ( pin head size ) rust spots on the barrel flat, that's a pretty good feeling. I dont worry about my rifles rusting up anymore.
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Me either. Mines stainless steel.
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stainless will rust, just not as easily. Actually the SS lock up section on a cva break action, that sob will rust up so badly you would think its made of regular bare steel.
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