Black Powder Cleaning

[loneranger04]

Actually cleaning isn't that difficult for a rifle BUT needs to be done soon after shooting. Our smokeless guns can wait for a good cleaning but you wait a few days on a BP gun and you may have ruined it.

 

[jonbearman]

I use a 5 gallon bucket with the HOTTEST water and saop and I take a slotted tip and a patch and ram it up and down which develops suction. I remove the nipple and clean separetely in soap and water, then hot rinse and patch out till dry and the heat takes care of anything you miss and oil the bore or you can use bore butter to keep it from rusting.

 

[M14AMU]

I have another hobby,sailing.We learn that Dawn works in hot or cold,fresh or salt water. A good fresh water rinse and a good oil coating or WD-40,done.

Put a few nails in a Mason jar...spray good with WD-40 and set aside for 30 days and go back and take a look!!

 

[ebb]

If you use a black powder substitute and a 209 primer you can be a little lax, If you use real black powder and use and old fashioned type primer or only one of the two, you need to get right with it. The percussion caps are highly corrosive as is the black powder. Just about all of the above methods will work.