Any user's of 'Bore Butter' here?

I've always used bore butter on patch and ball but I'm beginning to question my own logic. In the beginning it was available and it came in a handy tube that could be thrown in a possibles bag.
But I've always used SPG on BPCR boolits and I've notice that the bore is gleaming after a one patch wipe with SPG. With Bore Butter not so much.
I've been pondering this for a couple years now.... No sense in rushing into things.
I thinking I may try saturating some some patches in melted SPG and a few other traditional lubes to see if I can get the fouling a bit softer
 
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I use bore butter in my 3 band iron barreled snider.

When I got the rifle it was a wallhanger complete with a sewer pipe bore. After several days of electrolysis the bore cleaned up quite nicely but still is pitted in the last 6" from the muzzle.

Now I'm not sure if it's from all of the shooting or the bore butter but the barrel seems to be getting easier to clean as I use it more and more. Now I know repeated firing will take down some of the rough spots but I've noticed that with the bore butter the fouling stays soft and I can fire the rifle more and have to run a patch down the pipe less.

I've shoot several hundred rounds through the gun since last year and although the pits are still there the bore seems to clean up about 10x faster since I started using bore butter.

Now all of the above being said I have no clue if bore butter seasoned my iron bore on the snider or weather it's been all of the use that has made the bore easier to clean?
 
I use a water-based Moose Milk lube when temperatures are above freezing and I am shooting at short intervals on a range or trail walk. When the ball will be in the barrel for a while, as in hunting, or temperatures are below freezing, I use Bore Butter and have had good luck with it. I have found that it will cause my PRB's to hit a couple of inches higher than comparable loads with Moose milk patch lube.I have also used it instead of oil to protect my bore after cleaning if I will be shooting again in the next day or so and I don't have my gun oil available. As for "seasoning" the bore.....BSIMHO.
 
I use bore butter to coat my patch for muzzle loading rifles. I also use it to coat barrels after cleaning. Love it, when sealing percussion revolvers I use straight toilet bowl wax ( in summer) or cut it with Vaseline ( in winter).
 
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