Two BP Questions: Cleaning

Water/Moisture, is an induced problem !!!

According to the chemists and other learned guys I know who are into BP, there is no reason for anything but water for cleaning BP residue from the bore.
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Well, up front that might be true but then you have to present, the rest of the story. You can't or should not stop with water. You address the problem of the "Salts", then you have to address the problem with the water/moisture. That is why I use solvents that are mainly water with water moisture displacement. I am aware of some B/P barrels makers that won't let plain water near their barrels. ... ;)

Of the three options for cleaning any BP firearm, the combination of water and solvents, is the best. .... ;)

Be Safe!!
 
Wash/swab it out/over like you would a drinking glass.
Then swab it out/over with normal CLP-like gun oil.
Done.

Personally, I find BP weapons (incl Perc/Flint) no harder to clean than smokeless,
and BP cartridge rifles to be much easier still.

Now BP revolvers are a little more work, but that's just because they have more parts
that have to be pulled apart (like cylinder nipples) and then washed/oiled.**




** Which is why shooting the Ruger Old Army is so nice. Pull the cylinder/nipples,
and then throw everything in the dishwasher. ;)
 
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