Cleaning Question

Got a Kibler WR last year and enjoy shooting it.
I have been taught to clean after every shot and that's all I've ever done.
Have been watching woods walk shoots type videos and never see any cleaning happening.
How can they shoot that much without cleaning?
Sorry for dumb question but I would like to be able to do that too.
Thanks

jay3 said:

Got a Kibler WR last year and enjoy shooting it.
I have been taught to clean after every shot and that's all I've ever done.
Have been watching woods walk shoots type videos and never see any cleaning happening.
How can they shoot that much without cleaning?
Sorry for dumb question but I would like to be able to do that too.
Thanks

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I can shoot all day using spit patch and never have problems. Some of my rifles might like a swabbing after a shot or two( also just spit), while my round-bottom rifled .62 likes fowling.
Just good ol’ spit

Try loading without cleaning, it works for most of us and has always worked well for me. I didn’t have anyone tell me how to do it right but still win a match from time to time.

Ditto on the spit patches. I have to run a wet then dry patch between relays here due to the low humidity or the next load after the wait is hard to ram down. Other than that, no wiping.

If you don't have enough spit , saliva , to wet a patch , there are many lubes to use instead of saliva. If grease , or rendered fat , is your choice , be conservative with the amount. lay your patch down on a hard surface , and rub excess off w/ finger. That's why old original guns have patch boxes , and grease holes for renderings to be stored. My all time favorite is simply a grease hole w/pregreased patches in it. Just pick a patch off the stack , Hopefully you have already dumped powder in the muzzle , patched ball , short starter , then ram the ball down on the powder. Prime , fire when ready. Makes me excited thinking about the fun.

jay3 said:

Got a Kibler WR last year and enjoy shooting it.
I have been taught to clean after every shot and that's all I've ever done.
Have been watching woods walk shoots type videos and never see any cleaning happening.
How can they shoot that much without cleaning?
Sorry for dumb question but I would like to be able to do that too.
Thanks

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Video editing. They took the boring cleaning times on the woods walks out of the online videos.

One can get several or many shots using a relatively wet patch while loading. The extra liquid won't hurt the accuracy that much by dampening the powder next to the patch. One may need to do a wipe to rid the bore of fouling if loading starts to get hard.

Thank you all, appreciate the info!

Grenadier1758 said:

Video editing. They took the boring cleaning times on the woods walks out of the online videos.

One can get several or many shots using a relatively wet patch while loading. The extra liquid won't hurt the accuracy that much by dampening the powder next to the patch. One may need to do a wipe to rid the bore of fouling if loading starts to get hard.

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Nope. I'm in several of the Folk Firearms Collective videos, the shooting is uncut and unedited. Most of us use Moose Milk, and shoot as long as powder and ball last and maintain the same bore condition from first shot to last.

When I'm shooting at the range at a bench I always keep a moist patch over my jag when I'm loading. It's just a good practice be keep carbon buildup to a minimum. On a woods walk don't worry about it until you get back to the bench. You'll know when fouling gets too bad. Bill

jay3 said:

Got a Kibler WR last year and enjoy shooting it.
I have been taught to clean after every shot and that's all I've ever done.
Have been watching woods walk shoots type videos and never see any cleaning happening.
How can they shoot that much without cleaning?
Sorry for dumb question but I would like to be able to do that too.
Thanks

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As others have said .... Just clean it after your done shooting for the day . Yeah ...if your at a BP range and you've shot a LOT and its starting to load with difficulty , sure , do a quick clean , but thats a rarity and its after a BUNCH of shooting . Most of the time .....just clean it after your done shooting for the day . Have fun ....oh yeah , by the way .... Since Ive been all the forum Ive watched how long it takes me to clean my gun after shooting . Last time it took 14 minutes . There are some folks that will drag out their cleaning ritual to crazy long amounts of time . And ....to each their own ! If they like to clean that way more power to them . Water soaked patches until they are clean , 3 dry patches , I scrub my pan and surrounding area , dry same , then an oil patch down tube and that same patch I wipe everything iron or steel ... Done .... Easy peezy

Dawn and water as a patch lube for plinking.

Spit lubing does help keep the fouling down. That being said, there is spit, and there are loogies. Maybe OP's spit is a little on the weak or thin side. Horcking up a little extra makes that spit lube more viscous, and helps it to carry further down the bore. Seriously.

I'm just saying if I see one of ya'll at the range over there snorting and Hocking up a good snotty one to lube your patch I'm gonna lose it.

Never been one to spit on anything and dont plan to start now. I like TC #13 for wiping and use patches lubed with WonderLube or a TC product, or prelubed patches.
When I was shooting BP cartridge I bought a bottle of Shiloh Creek BP solvent and it works great.
Keeping a bottle of clean water handy is not a stupid idea either.

Humidity plays a big part, for me at least. At around 60% or less I can shoot all day with prelubed patches with no issues. It's gets above 60% and things start to be problematic with bore fouling and pan fouling in flintlocks.

I'll add that with my patent breech guns swabbing can cause more issues than not.

I'm a plinker, not a swabber, wet patch, ballistal and water, ratio unknown/oily. Bore stays consistent and easy to load for a long, long time.
This is supposed to be fun, not work. Keep your barrel hot and enjoy the smoke and the clanging of the steel.

Beginning to understand uncle saying "you dont know spit"

1001 uses.

wiscoaster said:

Spit lubing does help keep the fouling down. That being said, there is spit, and there are loogies. Maybe OP's spit is a little on the weak or thin side. Horcking up a little extra makes that spit lube more viscous, and helps it to carry further down the bore. Seriously.

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Copenhagen does the same!

What works for any shooter is the thing to do. But I clean between we shots and do not think of it as a chore. I suppose I'm a little bit OCD but I need every shot to come out of a clean bore. I've not encountered a circumstance when a 2nd shot was needed "right now," but I can imagine such a scenario coming up and I'd wager there are some here who have experienced it.