Baby wipes

Does anyone use these to swab between shots? I have been thinking about giving them a try.

I guess it would depend on what’s within the baby wipes... although it would take a lot for me to get away from my cheapo barrel swabbing patches..


I buy a 100 count of patches and use a small round tupperwear container, I pour roughly 2 table spoons of windex in the The container and put half the stack of patches in the container. Always worked well for me and evaporates from barrel By the time I get the powder in the barrel, I’m still on the same winded bottle I started with 3 years ago with this method and have a lot left

Not between shots, but I’ve used them for years when cleaning after shooting BP in these in-lines: they do great. Made a few post years ago with them- I did wring them out some.
I still use spit when I wipe between shots.

Steelheader323 said:

I guess it would depend on what’s within the baby wipes... although it would take a lot for me to get away from my cheapo barrel swabbing patches..


I buy a 100 count of patches and use a small round tupperwear container, I pour roughly 2 table spoons of windex in the The container and put half the stack of patches in the container. Always worked well for me and evaporates from barrel By the time I get the powder in the barrel, I’m still on the same winded bottle I started with 3 years ago with this method and have a lot left

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Will this method work for Blackhorn 209?

Steelheader323 said:

I guess it would depend on what’s within the baby wipes... although it would take a lot for me to get away from my cheapo barrel swabbing patches..


I buy a 100 count of patches and use a small round tupperwear container, I pour roughly 2 table spoons of windex in the The container and put half the stack of patches in the container. Always worked well for me and evaporates from barrel By the time I get the powder in the barrel, I’m still on the same winded bottle I started with 3 years ago with this method and have a lot left

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Where do you get cheap patches? The one I have are pretty pricey.

I used to use them in my percussion CVA, they seemed to work ok. With PRB, I didn't swab between shots until it was difficult to load. With my inline I like to swab after every shot, so that it will be close to the POI of a clean barrel

Kraig said:

Will this method work for Blackhorn 209?

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With bh209 the only thing I do between shots when at the range is clean the breech plug every 5 shots or so. My groups get tighter after the 2nd and 3rd shot with some rifles and with some others the kid does best with a clean barrel but even then I don’t swab with bh209. As far as lathes go I get them from my local gun store for 1.99/100 Amazon has various bull deals where you can get up to 1000 patches for under 10 bucks..I’d hate to see how much money some companies have made off some of the guys that buy “ready to use” Blackpowder cleaning patches

Rob162 said:

Where do you get cheap patches? The one I have are pretty pricey.

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I cut up old t shirts to make patches or cleaning cloths. Old tighty whitey underwear works too.(washed of course)

Thanks.

A simple spit patch after every shot is all I have used for the past 20 years.

Rob162 said:

Where do you get cheap patches? The one I have are pretty pricey.

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I think the ones Iuse are 1.5" x 1.5" and are 27.00 for 2000