Redlg155
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I've used TC bore butter for years out of my front stuffers. Always religiously cleaned the rifle the first time with hot soapy water, went throught the 'seasoning' process with bore butter and then used it exclusively from then on. I've never noticed any advantages or disadvantages from using conventional cleaners because I've never let them touch the bore of my BP rifles. Just hot soapy water and bore butter. I've learned that since I started BP hunting 15 years from an old timer who taught me how.
Now I'm wondering if anyone uses conventional cleaners such as hoppes in their BP rifles. I'd rather just treat it like my M44. Squirt some windex in there to get the cleaning process going and then clean with Hoppes #9 when I get home.
I could understand the importance of bore butter back when having a sealed breach was the norm. Getting 100 percent of all the crud and excess lubricant out was very difficult if not impossible. Now that just about every BP rifle out there has a removable breech plug it's possible to get everything clean and remove all traces of cleaner that might affect your powder. Has this negated any real advantages to Bore Butter?
http://www.beartoothbullets.com/tech_notes/archive_tech_notes.htm/40
Ohh..and above is a pretty neat article on cleaning BP rifles.
Good Shooting
Red
Now I'm wondering if anyone uses conventional cleaners such as hoppes in their BP rifles. I'd rather just treat it like my M44. Squirt some windex in there to get the cleaning process going and then clean with Hoppes #9 when I get home.
I could understand the importance of bore butter back when having a sealed breach was the norm. Getting 100 percent of all the crud and excess lubricant out was very difficult if not impossible. Now that just about every BP rifle out there has a removable breech plug it's possible to get everything clean and remove all traces of cleaner that might affect your powder. Has this negated any real advantages to Bore Butter?
http://www.beartoothbullets.com/tech_notes/archive_tech_notes.htm/40
Ohh..and above is a pretty neat article on cleaning BP rifles.
Good Shooting
Red