Dirty faux trade gun.

[Britsmoothy]

Finally cleaned this Pedersoli trade gun after months of foul in the bore alas protected with my bore grease.
However before cleaning it's function was tested and found lacking nothing.







B.

 

[coloradoclyde]

What was the condition of the gun upon final inspection and what was your conclusions?

I assume you shot it regularly?

 

[Britsmoothy]

Perfectly fine, the same condition as before.
It has not been fired for over two months since its last shots, just swabbed out with my grease and fired using oiled wadding.

My conclusions are that natural oils do hold salts in suspension enough to protect the bore, pretty much the same way the old black powder cartridge rifle bullets coated the bore with bullet lubricant.
As long as the gun can be kept dry, or dried it will be fine.

B.

 

[wattlebuster]

Im glad that works for you :hatsoff: As for this ole fat redneck mine will get cleaned after after shooting once or 25 times. Always have always will.