Need help cleaning black powder rifle
It was put away last year uncleaned and now I can't get all the crud out with soap and water.
I knew better but as I get old I keep putting off things.
thanx for any help
I knew better but as I get old I keep putting off things.
thanx for any help
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First try with a tight fitting Bronze bore brush. Soaked in solvent, with the end of the cleaning rod, chucked in a electric drill. You're going to either have to, secure the rifle by having somebody hold it. Or very very carefully, clamp in a protected jaw vise.
Black Powder residue is hygroscopic, (atracks moisture). If it has rusted, and there is pitting underneath the crud in the barrel. Your screwed, once the barrel is rusted with pitting underneath the rust. Going to have to get another barrel.0 -
this is the time to get a product that is named KROIL you need to wet the inside of the barrel from one end to the other pug one end and fill barrel with kroil and let stand for at least 24 hours 48 is better than remove the kroil use brass bore brush do not turn go in and out only then use patch until mostly clean then use some JB bore CLEANER clean until patches slide in & out smoothly do not turn brush or patches go in & out ONLY 0 -
Note, this is not black powder but is Hodgdon Triple Se7en. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by kissgoodnight
Note, this is not black powder but is Hodgdon Triple Se7en.
Likely you're OK, then. As far as rust and bad pitting is concerned. You won't know though, until you get all the crud out with a bronze bore brush. Wetted down with solvent/bore cleaner. Since it isn't black powder residue. I would forgo use of the electric drill. And just muscle it out, to see what shape the bore is in under the Triple 7 residue.0 -
If you can't clean a gun before you put it away then oil it. I think a little wd40 would probably greatly delay rusting even with black powder or corrosive primers. 0 -
If you can obtain some Blue Wonder works miracles...
1 additional comment - we put men on the moon and folks still believe the best way to clean a muzzle loader with soap and water...
Elbow grease and determination should save the day.
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It needs to be boiling hot water. I use a half full coffee and gloves. Pull the barrel and the nipple. Set nipple end into can, use a tight patch on your cleaning jag. Moose Milk aka water soluble oil works better than soap. Plunge the rod many strokes. Change the water repeat. The barrel will be hot enough to dry almost instantly. Run a patch with black powder Bore Butter on it to protect it.
If it's still rough then use JB's Bore Paste will polish it out.
You should clean it soon after shooting. A piece of oiled leather on the nipple and a cork in the muzzle will help seal out the moisture in the air to give you more time.
I don't like 777. American Pioneer or real black powder is what I use.0 -
Was it a traditional or in-line? 0 -
If the gunk is standard black powder or Pyrodex try pouring about half the barrel full of Windex with ammonia and let it stand in a bucket. Shake it every once in a while then start on the brush,patch and jag work. During black powder combat days the soldiers used used to urinate down the barrel to break up the fouling when there was no time to stop and set up the pot for boiling water - the ammonia softened the fouling enough to clear it for a few more loadings. 0 -
Try steel wool wrapped around a bronze brush. Use any solvent you have: gun cleaner, penetrating fluid, light oil, ATF. The bore will probably be lightly pitted but still usable and good enough for deer. 0 -
Not to rain on your parade BUT it's quite likely any effort to "clean" a barrel left fouled for a year is wasted. Trying to work with a pitted ML bore isn't worth the cost of the rifle. 0
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