BP solvent and cleaning patches?

[Weavedreamer]

Just inquiring to hear opinions on homemade solvents and what works best for cleaning patches? Just recently learned that some people wash and reuse cleaning patches, growing up we always would just dispose of ours.

 

[kyron4]

Windex is a cheap option that works well between shots. Good old luke warm water is still #1 in my book.

 

[Ed C.]

I use old tee shirts. Get a rotary fabric cutter and a piece of plexiglass to cut on and you can have a hundred or more patches cut to size in a very short time. Dawn soap, water, and a dash of ballistol is my cleaning agent. The cutter also works great for cutting your loading patches to size.

 

[tenngun]

Pocket knife and water

 

[ETipp]

Dish soap and water to clean.

Windex between shots.

Ballistol for finish up cleaning and before putting the ML to bed.

 

[Phil Coffins]

Unicorn liver pressed between the breasts of virgins.

 

[The Miner '49er]

Unicorn liver pressed between the breasts of virgins.

Phil, so when you say you need some 44's, are you talking about the patch caliber or something else???

 

[Rifleman1776]

I use cotton baby blanket flannel bought at Walmart. Very cheap. I cut into about 2" squares. I use them for swabbing between shots dampened (not soaked) with spit. For cleaning just water with dishwater soap, usually Dawn. Works for me.

 

[Rob M.]

Water and cotton ( old t shirts ) patches .... Easy peezy

 

[leadhoarder]

Unicorn liver pressed between the breasts of virgins.

Finding the former is easy but finding the latter these days is pretty difficult.

 

[DCAN]

Unicorn liver pressed between the breasts of virgins.

That would be tough to do where I live. The unicorn I might be able to find, as for the the other.............