All of this misinformation is really getting old

[Nazgul58]

I have it on good authority that the best shooting muzzleloading rifle uses real black powder whose saltpeter is made from the pee pots of vestal virgins, the sulfer harvested fresh from the vent of an active volcano and charcoal from the briquets in a mesquite smoker. The bullets are cast only during a full moon in a pot blessed by a Voodoo shaman and sprinkled with the blood from a freshly sacrificed yellow bellied bald head snipe as it was shape shifting into a chupacabra. The best patches are woven from the pure underarm hair of an albino bigfoot.

Finally someone with the best answer. It is what I have used for years, especially shooting in Volcanic snowstorms with tornadoes.
Cleans easily using fresh Buffalo pee with a dash of Grizzly Bear ear wax dissolved slowly in a natural hot water spring.

Don

 

[Erwan]

These are great recipes, but you have to have all the conditions right at the right time and that's not always the case for me.
Since I am mostly a target shooter and not really a hunter, I can't use these methods four times a week.
However, for full moon nights, the ones where I hunt werewolves and other vampires, I always have a small kit on hand.
In fact, the only small difference is that on those nights I only use specially cast silver bullets that I get from the kingdom of Hades...

Have a nice day.

Erwan.

 

[JCKelly]

As a traditional metallurgist, may I suggest that the acknowledged best cleaning solution is made from
the urine of a three-year old goat fed only ferns for three days.

 

[LME]

I have it on good authority that the best shooting muzzleloading rifle uses real black powder whose saltpeter is made from the pee pots of vestal virgins, the sulfer harvested fresh from the vent of an active volcano and charcoal from the briquets in a mesquite smoker. The bullets are cast only during a full moon in a pot blessed by a Voodoo shaman and sprinkled with the blood from a freshly sacrificed yellow bellied bald head snipe as it was shape shifting into a chupacabra. The best patches are woven from the pure underarm hair of an albino bigfoot.

Briliant statement Dave! Loved it. I only wish I had said it. I hope you don't mind if I quote you! You are a riot!

 

[dave951]

Briliant statement Dave! Loved it. I only wish I had said it. I hope you don't mind if I quote you! You are a riot!

No chupacabra were harmed during my last casting session and that's why I missed. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.....

 

[Nazgul58]

No chupacabra were harmed during my last casting session and that's why I missed. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.....

Yes but did your wife get her apron strings tied correctly??

Everyone knows that is bad for accuracy.

Don

 

[ML48]

Yes


Yes, Nuff said, except for one more little thing. Mother nature. Fog, rain, humidity, and other natural factors really do affect the bare metal of barrels. I feel sorry for those who live in high humidity areas. So much water in the air. I believe that 20% humidity in my area really helps keep rust out of my bores.

I agree about the low humidity having less effect on rust in the bore, but it sure is hell on wood. I've seen outside humidity read as low as 11% here.

 

[ML48]

Finally someone with the best answer. It is what I have used for years, especially shooting in Volcanic snowstorms with tornadoes.
Cleans easily using fresh Buffalo pee with a dash of Grizzly Bear ear wax dissolved slowly in a natural hot water spring.

Don

Sold locally at WEBEMUZZLELOADING.com.

 

[SamTex1949]

now, just what breed of goat !
the fainting ones ??

As a traditional metallurgist, may I suggest that the acknowledged best cleaning solution is made from
the urine of a three-year old goat fed only ferns for three days.

 

[vintovka]

PTFE for patch lube?

 

[smoothshooter]

As a traditional metallurgist, may I suggest that the acknowledged best cleaning solution is made from
the urine of a three-year old goat fed only ferns for three days.

In the 1500’s - 1600’s the best saltpeter came from the urine of a wine-drinking Bishop, or so it was believed. Traveling Bishops often bestowed the local powder maker of the city with a gift of their urine collected over several days or weeks as a coveted gift and sign of goodwill and blessings.

 

[dave951]

In the 1500’s - 1600’s the best saltpeter came from the urine of a wine-drinking Bishop, or so it was believed. Traveling Bishops often bestowed the local powder maker of the city with a gift of their urine collected over several days or weeks as a coveted gift and sign of goodwill and blessings.

It was also believed that urine tasting was a legit method of medical diagnosis. As your local doc if they're dedicated enough to taste your pee.

 

[TFoley]

PTFE for patch lube?

Go wash out your keyboard!!!!!!!

 

[vintovka]

Go wash out your keyboard!!!!!!!

The thread put the idea in my head, sorry. After the Pritchett video now thinking how it would work on paper cartridge or bullet itself. Remember the teflon bullet conspiracy? Then again might slip right out and never touch the barrel!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[dave951]

Go wash out your keyboard!!!!!!!

Claret, bourbon or port? Crucial knowledge for the discerning gentlemen of taste and status.

 

[RAEDWALD]

Petroleum products are bad for black powder guns. Neither true nor untrue.
Involving far more chemistry than is in my job description, but it depends upon the length of the chains of molecules (already oversimplified) such that mineral oils can leave a tarry residue which will build up and need very special treatment to remove whereas paraffin wax is a quite useable wax to use as a bullet lube (fouling controller).

As a simple rule of thumb for those who, like me, are hard of thinking. Using animal or vegetable fats for guns is a fail safe option. Unless you have the knowledge to differ. Rules are for the obedience of of fools (I hold up my hand) and the guidance of wise men.

You learn a lot when you investigate the reasoning. Captain Wild invented a new muzzle loading system for rifles which involved a squirt device to squirt a measured drop of water down the barrel after the patched ball was loaded. Used by certain southern German states. He specified the patch be linen. Did he just mean a cloth patch or was linen crucial to the system?

In the unlikely event of anyone reading this post and wanting to know the answer to the last item. Linen swells when wet, so a linen patch will soak up the water helping to soften and remove fouling on the way out (which has already been softened by the water dropped into the barrel) without passing it down to the charge whereas a cotton patch would allow some of the water to reach the powder charge even though the patched ball was seated a gnat’s above the charge.

 

[Whitworth]

In the unlikely event of anyone reading this post and wanting to know the answer to the last item. Linen swells when wet, so a linen patch will soak up the water helping to soften and remove fouling on the way out (which has already been softened by the water dropped into the barrel) without passing it down to the charge whereas a cotton patch would allow some of the water to reach the powder charge even though the patched ball was seated a gnat’s above the charge.

Thanks for that info.

 

[nhmoose]

No joke! At the end of the day today I had a guy bring in a .45 cappy with a whole tube sock and a .22 cal aluminum cleaning rod with some huge bronze brush broken off down the barrel! Said that’s how he always cleaned it! I almost ran out into traffic but there wasn’t any!!

Thank god for idjits, Paycheck this week it seems, dontcha love it.

 

[deerstalkert]

I have it on good authority that the best shooting muzzleloading rifle uses real black powder whose saltpeter is made from the pee pots of vestal virgins, the sulfer harvested fresh from the vent of an active volcano and charcoal from the briquets in a mesquite smoker. The bullets are cast only during a full moon in a pot blessed by a Voodoo shaman and sprinkled with the blood from a freshly sacrificed yellow bellied bald head snipe as it was shape shifting into a chupacabra. The best patches are woven from the pure underarm hair of an albino bigfoot.

the science is settled gentlemen! lets close this thread. nothing more can be said!
but................

 

[ML48]

Hell, i forgot what the damned original post was