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What is everyone’s procedure with cleaning a bore that has been fired with BH209? Recently learned you can use normal gun cleaning solvent. I always ran a patch with bore butter down the barrel as a rust guard/ easy loading factor. Am I supposed To lube the barrel after cleaning or no? Thanks guys.

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Clean with regular gun solvent and use the same oil as I do for centerfires for storage. Have never used bore butter and most on here don't either best I can tell.

If you decide to shoot 777, lube with synthetic oil and not petroleum based.
 
Clean with regular gun solvent and use the same oil as I do for centerfires for storage. Have never used bore butter and most on here don't either best I can tell.

If you decide to shoot 777, lube with synthetic oil and not petroleum based.

Thanks for the reply,
Oil the inside of the bore itself?
 
For storage I do just like a centerfire. When I go to load it next time, I run a dry patch through a couple times then a patch with 90% plus alcohol to remove the oil. Make sure the breech plus is clear of oil as well.
 
What is everyone’s procedure with cleaning a bore that has been fired with BH209? Recently learned you can use normal gun cleaning solvent. I always ran a patch with bore butter down the barrel as a rust guard/ easy loading factor. Am I supposed To lube the barrel after cleaning or no? Thanks guys.

TC Impact SB

I would suggest to skip the bore butter treatment and instead use a Synthetic bore oil like Montana X-treme Bore Conditioner. Follow the link below.

Products « Montana X-Treme

This is what I do ad it really works great! BH is a basically a smokeless powder but it does have Sulphur and Potassium added to allow it to qualify for a Black Powder Sub.

Because of those to ingredients I continue to use a couple of Blue Windex patches during the cleaning operation. The small amount of ammonia in combination with the other ingredients works very well negate the negative effects effects of Sulphur and Potassium.

This picture shows the operation. It works really well and is dang simple!

Bore-Cleaning.jpg
 
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What is everyone’s procedure with cleaning a bore that has been fired with BH209? Recently learned you can use normal gun cleaning solvent. I always ran a patch with bore butter down the barrel as a rust guard/ easy loading factor. Am I supposed To lube the barrel after cleaning or no? Thanks guys.

TC Impact SB
I shoot several different muzzleloaders and variously use true black powder, 777, and Blackhorn 209. For that reason, I have plenty of dedicated muzzleloader cleaning supplies on hand and just use them with Blackhorn 209. That said, you can certainly use regular gun cleaning supplies with that propellant. Like others have said, DON'T do that with 777 or true black powder.
You can skip the bore butter. I run a CVA rust prevent patch through the barrel after cleaning it regardless of the propellant I use. Just run 1-2 dry patches down the bore before you shoot it next.
 
Push 1-2 DRY patches through the bore with the breech plug out. This will get out a huge amount of fouling without making a mud pie.
Clean with whatever centerfire solvent you like. Even good old Hoppes #9

Ditch the BoreBummer
Use any quality synthetic or mineral oil based storage oil. Ballistol is cheap and easy to find if you want a CLP. Its main ingredient is light medical grade mineral oil. Its compatible with all powders too.
Avoid oils with Teflon added. There is NO REASON to introduce Teflon into your bore.

No matter what oil you use its best to swab it out before you shoot again. Since i do that i use WD40 Specialist Long Term Corrosion Inhibitor....This AINT regular WD40 but it also aint a synthetic. Its is however a great oil for storage.

A little bit of brake cleaner on a patch removes bore oils fast and its cheap. Just keep it off stocks.
 
Push 1-2 DRY patches through the bore with the breech plug out. This will get out a huge amount of fouling without making a mud pie.
Clean with whatever centerfire solvent you like. Even good old Hoppes #9

Ditch the BoreBummer
Use any quality synthetic or mineral oil based storage oil. Ballistol is cheap and easy to find if you want a CLP. Its main ingredient is light medical grade mineral oil. Its compatible with all powders too.
Avoid oils with Teflon added. There is NO REASON to introduce Teflon into your bore.

No matter what oil you use its best to swab it out before you shoot again. Since i do that i use WD40 Specialist Long Term Corrosion Inhibitor....This AINT regular WD40 but it also aint a synthetic. Its is however a great oil for storage.

A little bit of brake cleaner on a patch removes bore oils fast and its cheap. Just keep it off stocks.

X2 on the WD40 SLTC.
It ain’t cheep $12 Home Depot but work great.
 
Clean with whatever centerfire solvent you like. Even good old Hoppes #9


No matter what oil you use its best to swab it out before you shoot again.

These are great advice. For my rifles that shoot BH209, I always clean in the following sequence:

-Dry patch
-Hoppes #9 patch
-Windex patch
-Dry patch
-Light gun oil patch

I ran an experiment to see how much stuff a sabot picks up when being pushed down a barrel that has either been fired or left with a surface coat of oil in it this past summer. The answer is a lot. Unless you're in a situation where you need a quick follow up shot in the field, you really want to get your bore shiny and dry before reloading. I didn't test the effect of the oil/ powder residue I found at the base of the sabots on the reliability of ignition, but it was enough that I definitely wouldn't want it anywhere near the combustion determining the outcome of my hunt.
 

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