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I had a GPR for about 4 years (then traded it a flintlock), and during that time I NEVER did any special cleaning on the drum. I just cleaned it similar to you ... used HOT water (with a little soap) and pumped it in and out of the nipple. Then did the same with non-soapy hot water. Dried it...

Posting this on the "Pre-flintlock" forum, which discusses matchlocks, might be a good idea. A non-threaded breach plug sounds dangerous, but what do I know ??? :idunno:

Or maybe the Safetipaste saved the day, LOL: Saafetipaste

Yeah. That struck me as strange, too. But he claimed that the method he used with it (I won't bother to write it all out) worked. Looking at what he did (with brushes and patches), it seems to me like the residue was more physically removed than dissolved. Just quoting, not using (the Hoppe's...

Ned Roberts in "The Muzzle-Loading Cap Lock Rifle" (published in 1940) gives boiling water as the "only right way" of cleaning - "Even when hunting in the wilderness ...". He was taught this method from an older muzzleloading shooter as a boy, which dates this method to 1875 at least. He got...

Fun video ! :thumbsup:

Agree! :thumbsup: I have the tow worm and ball puller combo, and just ordered a 0.610 bag mold for my smoothbore. He does quality work.

Yep ... that's my current method! :thumbsup: Except that I use hot (tap, not boiling) water.

True, H2S reacts with oxygen to form SO2, but being very familiar with both smells (more so SO2 than H2S, of course!), I think we are smelling a mixture of the two (a little H2S and mostly SO2). NBD, as you said. H2S reacts with SO2 to yield water. Er ... where did the sulfur go? Sorry ...

PPPS SO2 would in water, of course, form sulfuric acid, and CO2 carbonic acid - but I wonder how much relative to the basic salts formed (does most escape as gases?). The reference states: "Upon ignition the sulfur burns, producing hydrogen sulfide, and the saltpeter decomposes, releasing...

PPS FYI (if you want to know): "Black Powder residue consists of potassium carbonate (basic in water), potassium sulfate, potassium sulfide, potassium thiosulfate, potassium thiocyanate, carbon, and sulfur." (I didn't do this analysis, found the reference by Randy Wakeman). I think I will...

PS Despite your water temperature, if you are not scrubbing your barrel during the cleaning process (I use tight cleaning patches along with the hot soapy water - the old GI type ones, others use brushes) the odds are that you won't get all the residue out - and that will mean rust.

:hmm: The key thing in your browning description is the acid. And you forgot the time factor. Pure water does not directly cause rust - you could let iron set in pure deoxygenated water without rust formation. You DO need the oxygen (or some other oxidant, such as hydrogen peroxide) to start...

Ok. Back to topic .... I put the flat sprue cut part of the ball down in my trade gun - against the flat lubed over powder wad before I push them both down the barrel. BUT In my rifle, I put the sprue up, round side wrapped by the patch. Both methods seem to work for me for the different...

Maybe he meant the music ....

Yes, it was. And when Carson arrived, Bridger told him: "That Colt isn't PC !!!" :haha:

Thanks for the reminder, Kal-El.

"The Colt legend dates to 1836, when the United States Government issued Sam Colt a patent for the world’s first commercially viable revolving cylinder firearm." See? You could go all the way to 1836! Actually, is there any evidence that a Colt revolver was at any rendezvous (last one being in...

Well, if you want to disregard a decade of rendezvous .... Actually, a case could be made the the INDIVIDUAL mountain man era (as opposed to the COMPANY era) was AFTER 1840, with such folk as Rufus Sage (1841 to 1844) and "Liver-Eating" Johnson. Anyhoo, "The evidence is overwhelming that the...

Don't you mean 1840 ??? Anyhoo, flint for me. In 62 cal smoothbore !!! A well supplied company or working near a fort would be a must if using caps for re-supply. As they say, "if God wanted us to shoot caplocks, He would have put caps all over the ground instead of flints"! And historically...