Cleaning the soot out . . . ? yur preference ?

[Wolfgang]

Cleaning the soot out . . .

Whut is yur preference ?

Moose Milk ?  Weasel Piss ? . . or . . . and formulas for 'em ? 

[Oliver Loving]

I use moose milk for rifles and revolvers.   Opossum Piss for shotgun to clean out the plastic residue

[Ranch 13]

Dry patch followed by a couple of wet patches (simplegreen and water) (or just water) followed up when everything is dried , with a oiled patch (3in1, ballistol, remoil,,, whatever)

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[Fingers McGee]

Rifles & shotgun - wet patches (water or BP solvent), followed by dry patch, followed by Balistol soaked patch.

Pistols - After a match, spray down with Balistol & let it loosen fouling.  Wipe down with rag, dry patch bore followed by Balistol soaked patch.  Soak nipples in BP solvent while scrubbing cylinder under hot running water.  Dry cylinder & swab chambers & arbor bore with Balistol soaked patch.  Pipe cleaner to clean inside of nipples, brass brush to clean outside of nipples, lube threads with balistol & reinstall.  Lube arbor with Bore Butter.

FM

[Jefro]

Murphy's Mix for clean up, followed by a spray and wipe down with Balistol.

Jefro

[Paladin UK]

Fer my base pins abors etc I use......



I see a lot of pards use ...Bore Butter 

Is Bore Butter similar

Paladin (Whats gotsta know ) UK

[Fingers McGee]

Fer my base pins abors etc I use......



I see a lot of pards use ...Bore Butter 

Is Bore Butter similar

Paladin (Whats gotsta know ) UK

Yep.  A little softer/looser though.

Fm

[Dick Dastardly]

I'm the lazy one here.  A spritz of moosemilk and a tug of the boresnake and I'm off enjoying a tall cool one.

DD-DLoS

[Delmonico]

Windshield washer solvent, I keep one jar of wet patches and one jar of dry with lids on them in the shooting box.

Even buy it with the household money, just toss it in the grocery cart at the store, long as I keep the wifes car full she's none the wiser.

No mixing, won't freeze if it's cold and the stuff dries fast because of the alcohol and it will also cool a hot barrel better than just water cause of the faster evaporating alcohol.  Much better than havin' to pee down the barrel like they did in the 19th century.

[Wills Point Pete]

 Moose Milk for the revolvers and rifle. That's around eight or ten to one, Ballistol in water. For the shotgun bores I run some Windex with vinegar through the bores, it cuts both the plastic fouling from the wads and the black powder fouling. Then I finish up with moose milk.

 To get any fouling out of the Mod '92s action I squirt moose milk in 'til it drips and then blow it out with compressed air. This is a job best done either outside or in the garage. Although I've done it in a motel bathtub, just before showering. If you are traveling or don't have a good air compressor the canned air for cleaning keyboards and suchlike works, too.

 I must have smoked too long before I quit, I can't smell moose milk. I like it because it cleans, then when it's dry the shootin' irons have enogh oil for routine use. I do dab a tad of my home made bullet lube on the base pins of my eyetalian Colt Clones. So far, no rust, no stoppages during a shoot.

 It's funny, though, when I last fooled with black powder, back when I was a kid, I went through all kinds of hoo-raw cleaning black powder, boiling water, funnels, oil, cleaning the guns once each day for three days. THAT, and busy busy with learning how to to shoot my service revolvers and duty shotgun kept me away from BP for nearly forty years.

 If'n I'd known back then what I do now not only would I have shot BP all that time but I would have kept some BP rounds for that short barreled pumpgun. I swear, popping a BP round into the air would have saved me more than one fight. I can think of more than one Billy Badass that would hear the BOOM! and see the flame and beg to get in the cruiser.

[Montana Slim]

1) Revolvers: first choce - Warm soapy water, then #2, below.
1) Long-guns: windshield washer fluid.
Follow with water-displacing lube, remove excess.

Regards,
Slim

[Wolfgang]

Thanks all for the input.   On my Cap & Ball guns I just use a bronze brush in and out with a dry patch and then a lubed patch.  On my SxS I pour boiling water thru them followed by dry patch and then a lubed one.   But now have a lever gun to shoot for the first time this week.   Will catch a "weasel" , . . ply him with beer, . . collect the result of his systems processing of the beer, . . .  and use it 

I will report results . . . 

Good shootin', . . . .

[Leo Tanner]

Fer my base pins abors etc I use......[/b

I see a lot of pards use ...Bore Butter 

Is Bore Butter similar

Paladin (Whats gotsta know ) UK

I use wonderlube 1000 also.  The only difference is in price.  Bore butter is twice as much around here.  Wonderlube is better fer yer C&B cause it's a tad stiffer an stays where ya put it.  Bore butter may be better on a cartrige arm, but bein from the UK that aint a concern of yers

[James Hunt]

Water, followed by tallow - on everything long or short. Worked 125 ++ years ago and still the cheapest and best today.

[Fairshake]

+1 on the post by Wills Point Pete. Use a 7 to 1 mix on the Moose Milk. Use the Windex with vingear also but since switching to paper wads I use the Moose Milk for it all. Faster than cleaning up after that Heathern powder. I only wish that I would have had some BP shotgun rounds when doing my tour in the car with the light on top. I would have been in IA I'm sure. I was there without the rounds. Something about always using excessive force on someone that was trying to whip my a__!! Those guys forget about what it takes on the street. Sir, would you please quit hitting me and turn around so that I may place these cuffs on your wrists. If they are too tight, please let me know as it is my job to keep you comfortable and please watch your head when intering the rear of the vehicle.

[Logan Hawke]

I've always used just plain HOT soapy water in the kitchen sink.

It has worked great for me so far but I am always willing to learn a little more so could some of you pards please fill me in on this "moose milk" and "weasel piss".  

[Leo Tanner]

Don't know about weasel piss but moose milk is just watered down Ballistol.  Mix it yerself an put it in a spray bottle.

[Leo Tanner]

I just noticed somethin...over here in BP land I rarely see anyone mention the use of a cleaning brush.  Wolfgang is the only one in this thread has one listed in his proceedure.  Any reason fer this?  Remember, I'm a heathen powder convert.
     
     I like ta have one one on hand fer the cylinder pin chamber in case things start spinnin slow.  Course it's brass an not stainless.

[Delmonico]

I just noticed somethin...over here in BP land I rarely see anyone mention the use of a cleaning brush.  Wolfgang is the only one in this thread has one listed in his proceedure.  Any reason fer this?  Remember, I'm a heathen powder convert.
     
     I like ta have one one on hand fer the cylinder pin chamber in case things start spinnin slow.  Course it's brass an not stainless.

Most times ya don't need one if every thing is working right.  WSWS cleans out all the fouling and there is no lead most times.

[Montana Slim]

Rught!  On my BP guns, I nary run any type of brush through the bore, even on the shotgun.
I use bore mops and/or patch/Jag.

REgards,
Slim