Bore Seasoning

[rcscott30]

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!

 

[Splitear]

I season my barrel with bacon grease and a bit of course ground black pepper. Put it in the oven for about an hour at 350 degrees, it doesn’t get much better than that.

 

[rcscott30]

I season my barrel with bacon grease and a bit of course ground black pepper. Put it in the oven for about an hour at 350 degrees, it doesn’t get much better than that.

I bet that smells great!

 

[waksupi]

Anytime you have a newby mention Bore Butter or such trash, find out who told them to use it, then hunt down said person and give them a sound thrashing. It will probably be some sporting goods store where the salesperson knows zero about guns, and even less about muzzleloaders. The company making Bore Butter should have been sued for fraud decades ago. This "recommendation" needs to be killed and buried.

 

[rcscott30]

We cook soo much bacon in this house I thought of the idea of using it instead of shorting in my lube but decided not to. Would probably end up eating it all on the range or in the field.

 

[longcruise]

Anytime you have a newby mention Bore Butter or such trash, find out who told them to use it, then hunt down said person and give them a sound thrashing. It will probably be some sporting goods store where the salesperson knows zero about guns, and even less about muzzleloaders. The company making Bore Butter should have been sued for fraud decades ago. This "recommendation" needs to be killed and buried.

Bore butter gets a bad rap because of the seasoning claims. And the seasoning claims are BS but Bore Butter and 1000+ are good patch lubes. I used it for quite a long time with excellent results. Only dropped it because it got more costly than my frugal bone wanted to pay. Besides, excellent lubes can be made at home for pennies and they work good too.

There are plenty of Bore Butter users on this forum who don't mention it because the seasoning issue comes up immediately! They are the Silent Minority

 

[Tumbledown]

"Bore seasoning" should be a phrase that automatically gets a post denied...

 

[smo]

I’m a firm believer in bore seasoning….
I believe Butter Butter, at least the early 80’s version seasoned a couple of my rifles so well they almost became a smoothbore….

Pyrodex & Bore Butter = Barrel seasoning at its best…
Just my opinion of course…

Yes, I did clean with them with hot water & dawn detergent…. Didn’t matter one bit..

 

[stikshooter]

I’m a firm believer in bore seasoning….
I believe Butter Butter, at least the early 80’s version seasoned a couple of my rifles so well they almost became a smoothbore….

Pyrodex & Bore Butter = Barrel seasoning at its best…
Just my opinion of course…

Yes, I did clean with them with hot water & dawn detergent…. Didn’t matter one bit..

That there is FUNNY/HA HA HA/Ed

 

[deerstalkert]

I season my barrel with bacon grease and a bit of course ground black pepper. Put it in the oven for about an hour at 350 degrees, it doesn’t get much better than that.

why do they put so many temps on the oven nob? seems to me everything ever baked is at 350!

 

[wiscoaster]

why do they put so many temps on the oven nob? seems to me everything ever baked is at 350!

Not pizza!! 450.
Not steak!! Broil.
Not muzzleloader barrel to be browned!! 220.

 

[tenngun]

Look at old cook books. There was no thermometer then. You fired your oven all night then next morning did your hot baked, like quick bread or corn bread. Then medium ovens Then raised breads and maybe roast if you were oven roasting or pies
Then slow cool ovens. Puddings or hard tack
Today we would go 425,350,250 or 200

 

[Johnny Tremain]

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.

 

[smo]

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.

No if I remember correctly it was Bore Butter that was said too “season “/ “coat” the barrel thus protecting it in the process…

But I have slept since then.

 

[Splitear]

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.

I dry mine thoroughly and then run a patch lightly coated with Ballistol.

 

[TechMoron]

Anytime you have a newby mention Bore Butter or such trash, find out who told them to use it, then hunt down said person and give them a sound thrashing. It will probably be some sporting goods store where the salesperson knows zero about guns, and even less about muzzleloaders. The company making Bore Butter should have been sued for fraud decades ago. This "recommendation" needs to be killed and buried.

It wasn't just the Bore Butter people. It's right in the little TC black powder books that come with their muzzleloaders, directions for 'bore seasoning'.

 

[Brokennock]

After about a decade of recommended use, I can say that the Bore Butter rifle seasoning bit is B.S.

Really?!?!?!?!?!
No WAY!!!
Who would have thought?!

Say it ain't so I even added extra garlic and lemon-pepper to my bore-butter

 

[Clark Badgett]

Anytime you have a newby mention Bore Butter or such trash, find out who told them to use it, then hunt down said person and give them a sound thrashing. It will probably be some sporting goods store where the salesperson knows zero about guns, and even less about muzzleloaders. The company making Bore Butter should have been sued for fraud decades ago. This "recommendation" needs to be killed and buried.

Unfortunately there are probably 10 casual muzzlelaoder shooters for every serious one. And the casual guys believe the marketing hype. There is no amount of explaining and documenting, polite or otherwise, that will get you anything other than derision and hate.

 

[longcruise]

why do they put so many temps on the oven nob? seems to me everything ever baked is at 350!

Well, I put my bow riser glue ups in at 170...... when the wife is napping.

 

[The Crisco Kid]

Bore butter and it's clones belong in the same dumpster as Marvelux flux.