luie b said:
Not to brag, but after I'm finished with my cleaning process I usually don't have to worry about checking for rust because there is NO RUST :grin:!!! I clean with room temperature soapy water, then flush with clean water, swish rubbing alcohol through the bore, dry with about 7 patches, and oil with birchwood casey barricade. I'm glad I found a cleaning method that works for my lifestyle because I know there are many, many other methods that work.
Lucas,
It's O-K to brag once-in-a-while, especially if you've found a good way to do something that will save other forum members from rusting their barrels :thumbsup: . I don't bother to check my guns for rusting any more since switching to Barricade years ago. It was called "Sheath" then, also made by Birchwood-Casey.
Speaking of "lifestyle" methods of cleaning, here's one everyone can try
(if they dare)! At our regular Club Match at Old Bridge NJ, we have a (20) shot COF. While waiting for others to finish, I'll start cleaning my rifle with wet patches soaked in Butch's Black Powder Bore Shine. I leave the nipple on the rifle, bring the rifle to full-cock, squirt some Bore Shine down the muzzle, soak the patches, and using a patch worm from Ampco, shove the soaked patches down the bore and then twist my Range Rod a few times to engage the soaked patches. Using a vigorous pumping action, I pump Bore Shine till it froths-up and squirts out the nipple. Repeat (3) more times until the patches come-out
WHITE! Then I take the cleanest set of patches and soak them again and wipe-down around the nipple
and any other area where there's any sign of fouling deposits.
Go home and do what you want for a week, without cleaning the rifle any more.
A WEEK LATER finish the cleaning job with the usual bucket method, and notice how little crud actually comes out of the breech!
AND NO RUST FROM WAITING to clean the rifle, after first doing the thorough "Range Clean" with the Bore Shine!
So the point of all of this is just to explain how a shooter can
PREVENT rust even if you can't get to a clean bucket of water for a week! Say up at a Scout Camp or on an extended hunting trip for instance. And the great thing is that once you dry-patch the rifle, you can snap a few caps, then load & fire it again right away, since the Bore Shine already has a built-in drying agent in it :wink: .
This "Range Clean" procedure works really well at Rondys where guys show-up with clogged ignition pathways resulting in hang-fires or miss-fires. Gets them all "back in the game" so to speak!
I'm not suggesting that every time you shoot your rifle, you wait a week to clean it! All I'm saying is that I've found a way to enjoy a Sunday dinner with the family, instead of being banished to the basement cleaning the rifle while the rest of the clan is going to a restaurant for dinner :wink: .
So this is just a once-in-a-while thing for me, not the norm, but IT DOES WORK EXCEPTIONALLY WELL!
Dave
One of the "Over-the-Hill" Gang that's sometimes too sore to clean the rifle the same day as it's used!
