Yikes!!!Just let my wife clean your barrels, you wuill be sure it is not seasoned. All I need to convince is a look at our cast iron! The woman up the hill used sand from the yard to clean her frying pans and of course she had cats!!!
Yikes!!!Just let my wife clean your barrels, you wuill be sure it is not seasoned. All I need to convince is a look at our cast iron! The woman up the hill used sand from the yard to clean her frying pans and of course she had cats!!!
I always remove and clean my sidelocks with warm soapy water followed by a hot water flush. Swab with dry patches then a coule patches with alcohol while barrel is,still hot, the a patch with oil to prevent rust. Store the barrel muzzle down for a day or two to allow any residual oil to flow away from the breech area.So let me get this right. For those that remove their barrels and clean them with very hot water and soap.
You all just put the rifle away with nothing coating the barrel?
It may not be a thing NOW, but it was in decades past.
You don't need hot water but it facilitates the drying process.I think its hillarious that guys who say you have to season your bore will also tell you you have to use boiling hot water and Dawn dish detergent to clean it.
I am wondering if one of those jags with a threaded cap and ferrul to hold a piece of wire screen would work better/faster, than the brush. They used to sell them for removing lead from heavily leaded pistol barrels.i have acquired many rifles over the years that have been "Seasoned" . the thing that is common with them is the cleaning patch with say Alcohol, ballistol, or any type of solvent, will keep showing black rifling streaks until your shoulder falls off.
one i got not long ago, i bore scoped. the lands were nice and shiny. the grooves were black as if coated with Teflon. i started with a brass brush and solvent. followed with patches soaked with solvent. followed with patches soaked with Alcohol. then brass brush. repeated this until those patches came out without the skid marks.
bore scoped it and had shiny metal in the grooves. loaded the same, but shrunk the group a bunch.
only took 110 patches and a bar of soap. the soap was to clean out the fouling in my mouth! wife takes offense when i challenge the parental relationship of an inanimate object.
i have a tube of bore butter. think i bought it to use with a 9mm cal Spanish pos rifle i traded some Plymouth hub caps for in 1970. 99.5% still in the tube. smells good though.
Seasoning was for old iron barrels, and cast iron skillets of any age.After about a decade of recommended use, I can say that the Bore Butter rifle seasoning bit is B.S. This is in a 50 caliber Kentucky percussion rifle with about 10 years of use. Yes, the rifle loads and cleans a bit easier but that is probably due to a nice broken in barrel, not seasoned with that yellow stuff. Make your own lube. It's cheap, easy, and gives you something to do on a rainy day!
Probably wildly underestimated.
I dry mine and run a patch saturated with barricade down the bore and sit her business end down at least overnight.So let me get this right. For those that remove their barrels and clean them with very hot water and soap.
You all just put the rifle away with nothing coating the barrel?
It may not be a thing NOW, but it was in decades past.
...only took 110 patches and a bar of soap. the soap was to clean out the fouling in my mouth! wife takes offense when i challenge the parental relationship of an inanimate object.
I am a 375 man myselfwhy do they put so many temps on the oven nob? seems to me everything ever baked is at 350!
And you can fry eggs in the excess.I bet that smells great!
You are correct, nobody at T/C ever told anyone that it would prevent rust, but the label on the tube stated it ‘inhibits’ rust. Kind of like what the meaning of ‘is’ is.Been using this for decades. Never had any issues with it. As with all things; your mileage may vary, but nobody at T/C ever told anyone that it would prevent rust.
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