Hoppes

[roundball]

1) How does the presence of kerosene - a petroleum product - affect performance with BP guns??

No negative what-so-ever...in fact, the Kerosene may well be the cleaning agent...this coming spring/summer I want to get a quart of Kerosene and try it plain just to see what happens.

Is the amount of kerosene too small to be an issue??

Your question assumes that Kerosene would be problematic...but whether or not the amount is too small, there isn't any negative effects from it;

2) Is there any known difference in contents despite the same product code??

My personal experience with many of the white plastic bottles is that it's been the consistency of water, not slippery or having any indications of lubricating properties, etc.

My personal experience with the contents of the new style plastic bottles has been just the opposite.

I've bought quart bottles on and off over the past few years and they always seem to have the black labels on them, even though over those year the contents were different as I mentioned above.
In fact, until I used up the quart bottles of the old style stuff, I kept a couple of the old white plastic squirt bottles around and just kept refilling them until the old style stuff was used up.

Others may have had different experiences...

 

[dirt weasel]

How do you apply to patches(fully wet the patches,just a dab,put a bunch in a plastic bag and add Hoppes)?

 

[roundball]

"...I dump a bag of 100 precut/prelubed patches into a ziploc bag, squeeze in 2-3 squirts of Hoppes, and then work the bag of patches for a couple seconds to ensure everything is wet, and pour out any excess...at the range, I use them glistening wet..."

 

[paulvallandigham]

The problem with using wet lubes on patches is not getting them thorough wet, but keeping them from drying out before you use them, and then using them up before rot ruins the fabric!

I lube my patching the night before a shoot, when I also clean my gun out, check all the internal lock screws, and reoil the lock to make sure its going to work as expected.

I am using bore lube( Wonderlube, or "Bore Butter), so I wipe a patch across the bore lube, then put another patch on top of it, wipe that patch in the lube, put another patch on that one, and continue on until I have 25 or so lubed patches ready, in a stack. Now that I own a microwave oven, I zap the patches for about 10 seconds, check them, and give them additional zaps of no more than 10 seconds until the lube has spread throughout the patches.

Then they go into a plastic bag to go to the range with me. That is also when I run a check of my powder horns, my ball bag, my OP wads, etc. to make sure I have all the gear I am going to need to shoot the next day.

Its a long drive to the range, and nothing makes you feel more STUPID than getting to the range and finding out that you left your powder horn, or your lead balls, at HOME! :cursing: :surrender: :thumbsup:

 

[Flint62Smoothie]

NEW STYLE

Yes, that's what I now use for warm weather (> 32-degrees F) patch lube. Roundball turned me onto it :thumbsup: !

As I mentioned above, I haven't used it for hunting just range work, so I have not had a Hoppes patch in a below freezing bore for hours, no experience there.

For really cccccccccold extended shooting or where the shots will be many minutes (winter primitive biathlons) or hours (hunting) apart ... I use Track of the Wolf's "mink oil".

TOW's mink oil stays slick in temps down to 8-degrees (my coldest trip so far) and it shoots to the same POI as my loads using the Hoppe's product :hatsoff: ! It also won't allow powder residue to cake up.

 

[50cal.cliff]

Well don't know how I missed this thread but here goes! :stir: :2
When I first started hanging around this forum even before I officaly became a member I started hearing about Hoppes #9 Black Powder Lube and Solvent.
Now for you traditonalist that belive in the naturals this is where you excercise your right too change the channel.
Not that I don't repsect your right too belive that way as I am sure you respect my right to my opinion!
Well I am waiting............... :nono: (now that they have left this discussion) back to the subject at hand and I believe by the tittle that was Hoppes
As an over the counter product I believe you will find no finer.
I live in an area where we have extremely high humidty at least 9 months of the year and alot of days the other 3 months. Now I will admit our cold doesn't rival the Northern or Western states but I have shot in 25*-30* weather with it and no problems arose.
My point is using hoppes and real black GEOX, I have shot up too 25+ shots without as much as a wipe between shots and never noticed fouling that was a problem in accuracy or any other way.
I did an experiment here a while back still using the same combo I tried a squirt of Traditons bore cleaner (that orange water looking stuff) on a patch and followed by a completely new patch in between shots. Within 15 shots the fouling had become so bad it was backing out of the flash channel, thru the drum and into the nipple, causing misfires and before the final misfire accuaracy had begun to suffer!
I then did a field cleaning with water and dry patched with an alachol dampened patch. I them went back to shooting and put another 25 plus shots thru the gun with GEOX and patches lubed with Hoppes and not so much as a wipe between shots. Accuracy was great and fouling wasn't bad when I then ran a patch at 25 shots.
I then put about another 15 shots down the barrel without patching and called it a day! Upon my arrival at home I cleaned with warm water and patched dry. Now I don't know what most folks would say about a lube that works that way but I'd give it an A+!!!!!!!!

Oh, by the way I was into our local Sports Academy last year and they had placed a bunch of the smaller bottles of Hoppes, I think they are the 8oz on sale. I got to talking to a salesman and he said they had be found in the storeroom and they had been there for a while.They hadn't even bothered to dust off the bottles before putting them out.
He said they had dropped price because they couldn't sell them. Sports Academy deals mostly in the infernal inlines so of course they weren't selling.
I asked him what they were asking for them, he checked and replies $1.99 plus tax. I immediatley picked up the box they were in and bought all five bottles they had! :grin: :haha: :youcrazy: :blah:
Check this link and you'll see why I snatched them up! http://www.ableammo.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=76940

 

[Keppy]

I have used it this summer once or twice. I'm impressed with the clean up. I guess I'll have to loader up this weekend and give it a test. The weather is 25 degree's and with the wind blowing its cold here.

:grin: I get to answer myself :rotf: Well I tried it and after blowing the ball out Sunday night(after leave the load in for two days as I normally do)I found the patch to be dry compared to the olive oil that I normally use. I know that its not a good comparison but its what I found. So will have to try this winter in some test shooting to see about cleaning and etc after a two day load.
Now once the rifle was loaded it stayed out it the cold environment.