?But long time rifle, pistol and shotgun shooter?.and I need some insight from some of you long time muzzleloader shooters.
First let me say My T/C Black Diamond 50 loves the 405 lead Powerbelts backed by 100 grains of Pyrodex pellets. In fact my last range session produced a three shot group all touching each other at 65 yards (she?s sighted in 3? high at 50 yards with my planning on taking my Moose up here in Alaska with no longer than a 100 yard shot, so I can hold dead on). I had some Barnes 295 Spitfires (yellow sabots), but I couldn?t even get them 3? down the bore! Had to use the bullet puller, etc?
Anyway, I got home the other night from a range session and cleaned the gun as I had in the past, which always worked well. Except this time no matter what I do I can still pull dirty patches. Let me explain, I first gave her the hot soapy water, hot clean water treatment making sure to scrub the bore good and rinse it down. I than took a wet patch of T/C #13 and followed that with a bronze bore brush, followed again by a wet #13 patch and finally by dry patches until clean. For heck of it I went ahead and put another wet #13 patch down the bore and figured I would brush it a few more passes. Well, there would then still come out black. I continued the same cycle, wet #13 patch, brush, wet #13 patch, dry patches till they come out clean?.and no matter how many times I did this, when I would then send a wet patch followed by the bore brush again I would end up with dirty patches. Now I did this until 2am (being the perfectionist ?get ?er clean? type of shooter, but finally the better half said enough is enough so I ran the bore down good with bore butter and called it a night. I will say that the bore looked nice and shiny through the bore scope.
So?what the heck is going on here? Is it bad leading from the lead Powerbelts? Am I being overly conscious about cleaning her up? It?s just not sitting well with me knowing that I can still pull dirty patches from the bore after scrubbing some more, but fer cryin? out loud I scrubbed the hell out of the thing?.and that was AFTER the good soapy/clean water scrubbing.
I?m seriously considering taking some JB to the bore. I sincerely hope that someone can help me figure this one out. Bear in mind that it?s probably only had a total of 20 lead Powerbelts through the bore, and has been meticulously cleaned after each of the previous two range sessions.
First let me say My T/C Black Diamond 50 loves the 405 lead Powerbelts backed by 100 grains of Pyrodex pellets. In fact my last range session produced a three shot group all touching each other at 65 yards (she?s sighted in 3? high at 50 yards with my planning on taking my Moose up here in Alaska with no longer than a 100 yard shot, so I can hold dead on). I had some Barnes 295 Spitfires (yellow sabots), but I couldn?t even get them 3? down the bore! Had to use the bullet puller, etc?
Anyway, I got home the other night from a range session and cleaned the gun as I had in the past, which always worked well. Except this time no matter what I do I can still pull dirty patches. Let me explain, I first gave her the hot soapy water, hot clean water treatment making sure to scrub the bore good and rinse it down. I than took a wet patch of T/C #13 and followed that with a bronze bore brush, followed again by a wet #13 patch and finally by dry patches until clean. For heck of it I went ahead and put another wet #13 patch down the bore and figured I would brush it a few more passes. Well, there would then still come out black. I continued the same cycle, wet #13 patch, brush, wet #13 patch, dry patches till they come out clean?.and no matter how many times I did this, when I would then send a wet patch followed by the bore brush again I would end up with dirty patches. Now I did this until 2am (being the perfectionist ?get ?er clean? type of shooter, but finally the better half said enough is enough so I ran the bore down good with bore butter and called it a night. I will say that the bore looked nice and shiny through the bore scope.
So?what the heck is going on here? Is it bad leading from the lead Powerbelts? Am I being overly conscious about cleaning her up? It?s just not sitting well with me knowing that I can still pull dirty patches from the bore after scrubbing some more, but fer cryin? out loud I scrubbed the hell out of the thing?.and that was AFTER the good soapy/clean water scrubbing.
I?m seriously considering taking some JB to the bore. I sincerely hope that someone can help me figure this one out. Bear in mind that it?s probably only had a total of 20 lead Powerbelts through the bore, and has been meticulously cleaned after each of the previous two range sessions.