When Shooting 2f Black Powder, Must You Clean Barrel Between Each Shot?

• #2

Damp Windex patch...done. I normally just flip it over and run it down and back again just you don't have to. By the fourth dimension your set to load, information technology has evaporated. Mayhap if your powder pick is a dirtier it will accept two patches but it works great.

• #3

Clammy Windex patch...washed. I usually but flip it over and run it downwardly and back again but you lot don't take to. By the time your ready to load, it has evaporated. Maybe if your pulverisation choice is a dirtier information technology will have two patches simply it works great.

I do the same thing here with Bluish windex, except i mix it with 91% isopropyl alcohol, almost 50/fifty or a picayune Stronger on the Alcohol Side. I run i Damp Patch down, and so follow with 2-iii Dry patches, Re load and Shoot

sabotloader

Keep Shooting Muzzleloaders - They are a Smash

• #4

Hey all,

I've never had keen confidence with my Hawkins 50 cal flintlock, so have decided to put tons of rounds through it this coming year as I ever save one tag for tardily season

So I've only really ever shot 1-2x and then cleaned information technology. If I plan on sending 20-thirty rounds downrange, how should I clean it between shots?

I've read a lot of opinions. Would butch's bore cleaner work every 2-4 shots? Merely butter ball?

Curious what options there are every bit peradventure field cleaning could even be diffeeent than range cleaning?

If you use the blue Windex patch and your patch is just barely damp you really practise not demand to run any dry patches. I accept tried the Booze additive simply I discontinued utilise as information technology seem to dry to quickly and may take a had an adverse effect on the Ammonia in the Windex. Ammonia is natural metal stripper/cleaner.

The existent key to is not apply a 'wet' patch. Onetime timers use to but drop the patch on their tongue to gain a flake of moisture.

This tries to prove how I make my bore swab patch - not cleaning patches

The key is to push as much Windex back out of the patch as you can - then place them into an air tight container to preclude evaporation.

This for shooting at the range and you can reuse the same dirty patch for several shots - until it drys out.

Which pulverization are you shooting?

• #v

I tend to exit the solution in the container to keep the patches saturated and and so just wring out equally much of information technology as I can back into the container when I become ready to use the patch.

Typically tin add another stack of dry out patches one time without having to add together any more solution to the container.

I may just exist super "cheap", but I also cut my ain 2" square patches from white flannel bought by the yard at Wally Earth.

• #half dozen

I have tried the Alcohol additive but I discontinued use every bit it seem to dry to apace and may accept a had an agin issue on the Ammonia in the Windex. Ammonia is natural metal stripper/cleaner.

Isopropyl is already an ingredient in Blueish Windex with Ammonia

sabotloader

Go on Shooting Muzzleloaders - They are a Smash

• #vii

Isopropyl is already an ingredient in Blueish Windex with Ammonia

I didn't know that - it does list it on the bottle! but, it does make sense!

• #10

I use straight alcohol to swab between shots when possible. My reason is it evaporates very rapidly and seems to clean well enough to get bear on the same every bit a clean barrel and that is my goal. I take shot with a dirty butt also and find the accuracy is still adept enough to punch a deer'due south boiler room at l yds with either of my flintlocks or inlines. My reasoning is moisture is the enemy of blackness powder and adopt not to put annihilation non combustible down the barrel when swabbing between shots. At the range I have a ritual. I shoot the shot. I swab the barrel and dry out patch information technology. I go forward and check the target and analyze the shot. Return to the bench and reload for another shot. The time it takes to check the target will in my small mind give the liquid plenty time to evaporate.

• #12

And it still works adept to wipe with!!!

• #xv

Not much worse than pine needles!

• #16

In my stance what nosotros are talking most hither is swabbing between shots, not cleaning. I view cleaning as an all out assault on the dirt and crud everywhere in and on my rifles. I also expect at swabbing as removing some or most of the shot residue from inside the barrel in grooming for the next shot. My PA dutch stubbornness comes into play here and I am very reluctant to let go of what works for me and pickup on what may work for the next guy or gal. Using annihilation that includes water is corking for my cleaning but I also know that water does not evaporate very readily especially in absurd or cold conditions. I am also convinced that water is a very large enemy of powders no matter what one uses. I shoot as much if not more with a flintlock than I practice with an inline then existent black powder is about the only applied powder to use and to my understanding is hydroscopic pregnant it draws in moisture readily and becomes useless as a propellant. When swabbing a butt between shots I do not want any water within my butt hence my use of direct 91% alcohol which I use a moisture patch, flip it and swab again and toss it. I also dry patch with two patches, saving them to use again. Next swab I use the first dry patch every bit my wet patch and the second dry one as my commencement dry patch and a new patch as my second dry patch. This gets me not totally clean but make clean plenty to get bullet touch on the same as from a completely clean barrel and that is my goal. Don't even ask most my ritual for a thorough cleaning of my rifles Lol.

• #eighteen

talon this works with rifles with a removable breech plug only with rifles such equally a flintlock the diameter ophidian merely will not work. Your proffer of using 2 targets has merit and gives valuable info for near hunting situations. On the fast reload I would suggest much do on the reloading sequence also. When I am hunting I carry quick loads made by RMC that not simply make a reload quick they seat the bullet deep enough I do not need to carry a short starter.

• #20

I am only shooting BH209. I have about eight unlike muzzleloaders that the family uses and I similar to shoot and sight them in. I accept .50's, .45's, stainless and blued. Because my range is exterior my basement door this winter my goal is to figure this dirty diameter , first shot bore, clean bore ,etc. matter out with my guns. Most these guns are shooting ane" groups @100 yards for comparing.

My shooting process is to dry patch, damp patch with 50/50 mix Hoppes #ix and booze, then 2-3 dry out patches.

Merely started noting the data and using this process.
Hither is what I have found so far.
Muddy bore 25-l fps slower
Clean bore 25-l fps faster
If the gun sits loaded the fps seems to change a picayune.
The bullets are still hitting inside an inch.

What I institute so far with non a lot of testing is if the gun has sabbatum even clean, I volition burn down a primer so clean.
I tin can as well clean and patch after I reload.
Doing this the guns seem to shoot back in the group.

I plan on taking each gun and doing a test over several weeks this winter if the conditions permits.

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