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EZ Black Powder Cleaning Solution

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Marshall
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Sorry...getting an error message on that linc.

Just fixed it! Thanks.

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Was coming back to do just that...not as neat or clean as your link, but it would have worked.
http://beartoothbullets.com/tips/archive_tips.htm/100

Read it...will work. So will the last paragraph's suggestion

(Sigh!)

Guess I'm just old fashioned. What little bp shooting I do gets cleaned up with the hot water/degergent routine. Have used the Bore Butter liberally - school still out as to whether I like it or just plain old light oil best.

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No harm, no foul....willb e interresting to the new shooters. Old shooters tend to stick with hot water..either becasue we are hard-headed or becasue it's worked for the last few hundred years.

Indeed, I too use hot water for cleanup on my BP smokepoles, I like to use near boiling water, and light cotton gloves while I clean the guns so as to not burn my hands while scrubbing them out. I don't use soap of any kind in mine.

When in the field, or at camp and simply don't feel like a hot-water bath for the dirty smokepole, I use Windex window cleaner, or a house brand from Costco Wholesale. Either way the BP fouling gets cleaned up and sanitized until I get home or until the next day in camp when it's convenient for the hot-water treatment.

I list the solution, because many shooters simply "have to use" a cleaning solution instead of water. In fact one of my hunting partners who is really into BP hunting uses Hoppe's BP Solvent exclusively, as he doesn't trust the old ways to keep his barrel from being harmed by BP residue. So, if one is going to use a solution, might as well make it cheap to do so!

As for me, it's a hot-water bath followed by a liberal rub-down of deer tallow while the barrel is piping-hot! Never corrodes, no red/brown residue when a patch is run through the barrel, and loading is easy time after time without cleaning between shots when using a conical lubed with deer tallow.

God bless,

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Is there any downside to the formula listed, aside from actually having to buy stuff to make it? Where would one typically find Murphy's oil soap?

I have used the hot soapy water method with good results, except for the one time it melted the front fiber optic sight on my rifle and destroyed the plastic front sight base, but I really don't like the hassle. It sounds as though this method might not be much more convenient, but worth a try anyways.

Been using the stuff for a few years now. The muzzle stuffers roun-heer' call it "THREE PATCH" as that's all it takes to clean a bore.
Fellas, this cheap and easy to make cleaner works!!!

I don't see the need to fill & let soak, I just wet a patch and clean the bore. I have a Lyman Great Plains that has been shot alot and only cleaned this way. The bore is bright and shiny.

p.s. Murphy's Oil Soap can be had at most hardware, home supply and super stores.

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I agree. This formula works great. It's cheap and works as good or better than anything else I've ever tried. An old Smokepole buddy of mine has never used anything other than hot water and a little soap. Likened it to seasoning an iron skillet. This fellow uses nothing but muzzleloaders for all his hunting and has a track record any of us would be proud of. So, I guess to each his own. But I do agree with him that when it comes to frontloaders, you don't want the pristeen barrel steel that you might want with conventional rifles. Especially if you're a roundball shooter. These new whizbang bullets may be a different story.

Murphy's Oil Soap is for cleaning wood floors, among other things. Probably can find it with the cleaning products at the grocery store, or maybe the home improvement warehouse places....

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For what it's worth, denatured alcohol from the paint department dries the bore a lot better than rubbing alky--absorbs more moisture. Been using that recipe for years. Here endeth the lesson.

Some Dark Siders call the formula Moose Milk, including me. Been using it in conjuction with Ed's Red.

... Moose Milk bath
... Wad of newspaper on a jag down the barrel
... Spritz of Ed's Reg
... A patch rapped around the front of a Bore Snake ... down the barrel
... Spritz of Ed's Red Oil ... clean as a new quarter

Hey guys, watch using Peroxide the stuff will cause alot of rust if not completely removed and the barrel protected with a good protectant like Break free CLP. Actually there isn't any reason to use it at all. Hot soapy water and or Windex works fine, just protect the bore when you're done.Also with our modern steels, you don't need to so call season your barrel. Back in the old days it was needed, but not today. Log on to GunsandShootingOnLine.com, and read the articles from the old pro's, the info is priceless check it out.

Speaking of rubbing alcohol, if you're doing any stock work, it works great for wiskering the wood than water, it dries much faster, and really stands the wiskers up. Just thought I'd drop this on ya.