Dave Markowitz
Member
Yesterday I shot in the Boulder Valley Muzzleloaders woods walk. I hit 15 out of 20, my personal best so far. Targets are steel gongs of various shapes and sizes from 10 - 80 yards. All loading and shooting is done out of your shooting pouch. I use a ramrod that fits under my barrel but many shooters bring a range rod along. Projectiles must be patched round balls.
At the previous event another shooter recommended Mr. Flintlock Patch Lube and Bore Cleaner. He shoots a .50 Lyman Great Plains Rifle and doesn't have to swab between shots for the entire course of fire. His recommendations along with several positive reviews that I saw on the Muzzleloading Forum got me to give it a try.
It's my understanding that this stuff is the same formula as the old Lehigh Valley lube.
Previously, I used 100% pure neatsfoot oil on my patches. This works well but I have to swab at least every 3 shots or it starts getting difficult to ram the ball home. I wound up swabbing with a cleaning patch wet with 70% rubbing alcohol between each shot to be on the safe side.
Mr. Flintlock lube is an amber-colored liquid with a soapy feel. It smells like Murphy's Oil Soap or Pine Sol.
I didn't care for the spray nozzle that it came with so I swapped it out with a flip-top lid that I had laying around.
For this match, I prepped my patches with Mr. Flintock lube the day before, getting them good and wet. They went into my patch tin which I then put in a ziploc bag to prevent them from drying out overnight.
The rifle I shot was my George Dech .50 flintlock longrifle, loaded with 60 grains of 3Fg Goex, a .490 ball, and 0.018" pillow ticking patches with Mr. Flintlock's lube. (My final shot was at the 80 yard gong so I bumped the powder charge to 80 grains.)
Sure enough, I did not need to swab between shots at all. 20 shots with no swabbing and I could have shot another round of 20 or more. The last shot was as easy to load as the first. Cleanup afterwards wasn’t bad at all.
For all I know it’s a mix of alchohol and Murphy’s Oil Soap or Pine Sol, but it WORKS for target shooting. I’ll stick with Track’s Mink Oil or October Country’s Bumblin Bear Grease for hunting but for long strings of fire this stuff is amazing. I partially attribute my score today to not needing to swab and thus reducing my fatigue.
It's available directly from the maker at https://mrflintlock.com/, as well as some other vendors online. I've also seen it on the shelf at Dixon's so it might also be available at a shop local to you.
I have no connection with Mr. Flintlock aside from being a very satisfied customer.
At the previous event another shooter recommended Mr. Flintlock Patch Lube and Bore Cleaner. He shoots a .50 Lyman Great Plains Rifle and doesn't have to swab between shots for the entire course of fire. His recommendations along with several positive reviews that I saw on the Muzzleloading Forum got me to give it a try.
It's my understanding that this stuff is the same formula as the old Lehigh Valley lube.
Previously, I used 100% pure neatsfoot oil on my patches. This works well but I have to swab at least every 3 shots or it starts getting difficult to ram the ball home. I wound up swabbing with a cleaning patch wet with 70% rubbing alcohol between each shot to be on the safe side.
Mr. Flintlock lube is an amber-colored liquid with a soapy feel. It smells like Murphy's Oil Soap or Pine Sol.
I didn't care for the spray nozzle that it came with so I swapped it out with a flip-top lid that I had laying around.
For this match, I prepped my patches with Mr. Flintock lube the day before, getting them good and wet. They went into my patch tin which I then put in a ziploc bag to prevent them from drying out overnight.
The rifle I shot was my George Dech .50 flintlock longrifle, loaded with 60 grains of 3Fg Goex, a .490 ball, and 0.018" pillow ticking patches with Mr. Flintlock's lube. (My final shot was at the 80 yard gong so I bumped the powder charge to 80 grains.)
Sure enough, I did not need to swab between shots at all. 20 shots with no swabbing and I could have shot another round of 20 or more. The last shot was as easy to load as the first. Cleanup afterwards wasn’t bad at all.
For all I know it’s a mix of alchohol and Murphy’s Oil Soap or Pine Sol, but it WORKS for target shooting. I’ll stick with Track’s Mink Oil or October Country’s Bumblin Bear Grease for hunting but for long strings of fire this stuff is amazing. I partially attribute my score today to not needing to swab and thus reducing my fatigue.
It's available directly from the maker at https://mrflintlock.com/, as well as some other vendors online. I've also seen it on the shelf at Dixon's so it might also be available at a shop local to you.
I have no connection with Mr. Flintlock aside from being a very satisfied customer.
