recipe for BP barrel swabbing solution...........

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Picked this up on another site a while back and it's effective and economical.Mix rubbing alcohol [Walmart cheap] 50/50 with automotive windsheild washer fluid.Lifts crud from pyrodex,777 and BP.............will post recipes for ball patch lube[moose milk] and hard lube for conicles at a later date.All proven and cheap to make............Harold
 
WW antifreeze contains methyl alcohol plus a bit of soap. We use Pinesol, a bit of alcohol and a tiny bit of water emulsifiable cutting oil (too keep corrosion down, it leaves a coating)

Most important thing we use is a big bucket with lots of hot water. Remove nipple, stand barrel in bucket, and use jag with patch as a piston to move water in and out of barrel.

The pinesol/alcohol/cutting oil is our moose milk concentrate that we use for most things. For cleaning we add extra pine sol to the water.

MM concentrate is from my kid's coach, he is a former muzzloading rifle World Champion.
 
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The cheapest of all is boiling water with dish detergent....and possibly the most effective. I pour the barrel full and let stand about thirty seconds and then let it out...pour barrel full again and let stand then pour out. Now swab a couple of times and the last step is to send an oily patch through. At the range I take a container of the same with me to use between shots. I am not a fan of ammonia. Dave
The best part of the boiling water is that the barrel dries quickly and thoroughly leaving no moisture to begin corrosion.
 
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bdft said:
What's the point of rubbing alcohol? The ammonia in straight windshield washer fluid cuts BP fouling great. I'm not arguing, I might be missing something.
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helps it evaporate, incase you use it in the field.
 
Hot water from the tap with a bit of dishsoap. When the barrel is clean and still warm, i put a bit of Bore-Butter on a patch and run that through. Just be sure to run a few dry-patches through before you load it again.
 
I wasn't talking about thoroughly cleaning the barrel before storage.I was referring to swabbing between shots at the range or field.Dishsoap and boiled water lifts the crud just fine.If you want to shoot decent groups it's usually best to swab the bore at least every 3rd shot or things tend to open up.Some target guys do every shot...................Harold
 
mbogo3 said:
I wasn't talking about thoroughly cleaning the barrel before storage.I was referring to swabbing between shots at the range or field.Dishsoap and boiled water lifts the crud just fine.If you want to shoot decent groups it's usually best to swab the bore at least every 3rd shot or things tend to open up.Some target guys do every shot...................Harold
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In that case I just scrub the bore with my phosphor bronze brush a couple of times, then load and continue.
 
I'm shooting a traditonal percusion .50 Hawken and a .54 Renegade.Smokeless NO WAY.....................Harold * 777 caused hangfires even with #11 mag caps very unpleasant with 110gr loads.I don't use it at all any more
 
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