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I bought a .45 caliber Seneca a few months ago and haven't had the opportunity to shoot it let alone give it a good cleaning. Anyway, my gunsmith said the bore looked really good. So I ran a dry patch through it up and down and it came out with some pretty dark brownish rust (I assume) on the end of the jag. I unscrewed the nipple and added Murphy's soap to scalding water, immersed the barrel and ran a bristle brush up and down the bore. I then took a swab and ran that up and down so that the hot soapy water was coming out the muzzle. After that, I started again with clean scalding water and ran the swab up and down some more. The water coming out looked very clean. So I ran a dry patch and the dark rust wasn't there anymore. On the patch only a very light tea stain showed and it wasn't all over the patch it was mostly where the jag contacted the area where the powder would eventually go. So should the patch come out just as white as it went in (being there was no oil in the bore)? Or is it OK to have a light stain on it? I got the impression that he barrel itself was clean and that stain is more or less coming from the bottom of the very bottom of the barrel. Thanks.