GOOP Lube

[Clint Meier]

Right on Skeggs! Lee Shaver is the owner/publisher of The Single Shot Exchange magazine, a really fine gunsmith and sight maker, an accomplished muzzle loading world championship shooter and I believe a past president of the US International Muzzle Loading Team. He first mentioned using GOOP Hand Cleaner as a patch lube in the "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Range" section of the Sept. 2022 issue. A reader asked him to expand on what he had alluded to in that article in the "Letters & Queries" section the following month, and he did so. Very interesting read, and if it worked good enough for Mr. Shaver, I expect that it will work good enough for any of us! I plan on trying it!

 

[Maven]

This is the product we use in the laundry and for cleaning hands. Never thought of using it for a patch lube though.

 

[French Colonial]

Yep, I have a bottle on the work bench and the wife keeps one in the laundry for removing paint, ink stains, grease and other stuff I manage to get on my clothes.

Never tried it for patch lube, I am a spit or tallow kind of traditionalist.

 

[TDM]

This is the product we use in the laundry and for cleaning hands. Never thought of using it for a patch lube though.

That’s it!

 

[Maven]

One further thought about Goop (as above): I read in either Muzzle Blasts or Muzzle Loader the ML {hunting} rifles weren't always cleaned after each use, but some used a suet, animal fat "swab" tied to the cleaning rod and left in the bbl. until the gun was next needed. I'm thinking Goop can serve the same purpose if we use a cleaning patches saturated with the stuff. A couple of passes to remove the heaviest fouling, then another patch with lots of Goop on it to preserve the bore. What say ye?

 

[TDM]

Could be. Since I’ve never used it with BP I can’t say how well it would neutralize the burnt powder by itself.

 

[dragnetbill]

All thats needed now is for somebody who mistakenly uses the "wrong" GOOP to see if the "right" GOOP will clean the "wrong" GOOP out of the barrel.