Lyman touch hole too high???

[Trench]

Birchwood Casey makes it. You should be able to find it at a sporting shop like Gander Mountain.

 

[Stumpkiller]

I get mine (bottles, not the aerosol) from Midsouth Shooting Supply.

Made from the best stuff on earth

Severely Hydrotreated Heavy Naphthenic Distillate

Mineral Oil

Heavy Petroleum Oxygenates, Barium neutralized
Mixture

Propylene Glycol Monomethyl Ether

Yes, a petroleum product. I wipe with alcohol and then run a lubed patch before loading so it matters not.

 

[StewartLeach]

Another vote for Birchwood Casey Barricade, formerly marketed as Sheath. I've tried many different rust preventatives on many different types of arms, and find Barricade to be the best.

I find it worthwhile to run the Barricade moistened patch up and down the bore at least once a day for two or three days after cleaning. Arms stored muzzle down in the vault don't develop the dried out plug of oil that gives many shooters a problem, but I wipe out the bore with a patch soppy wet with alcohol anyway.

White Fox

 

[Zonie]

Barricade.

Yes it is a petroleum product but after my guns have been stored for a week I don't wipe my bore before shooting.

Barricade is not a thick solution. In fact, it is about like water and like water it seems to evaporate shortly after it is applied, leaving a protective film.

This film does not react when a black powder or Pyrodex charge is fired so it doesn't cause a fouling problem.

 

[J.D.]

I also had black gooey patches that would NEVER clean out when I was using bore butter, I don't know what it's from.

It probably was left over fouling mixed with bore butter. BB won't clean out unless HOT water is used to melt it out.

I got rid of the bore butter and use crisco on patches now. cleans up alot better now. Just make sure you get the oil out before you shoot it, I use denatured alcohol.

IMHO, getting rid of the bore butter is probably the best thing you did for your ML and for accuracy.

That stuff is nothing more than colored chapstick, and it will gunk up a bore so bad accuracy will suffer badly.

I know some folks swear by it, but my experience with BB was all bad.

There are a LOT better patch lubes out there, and a LOT better bore preservatives too.

I like Breakfree for a bore preservative.

Spit, Shenandoah Valley Lube, or some such, works great for the range. Bees wax blended with olive oil, canola oil, or natural neets foot oil, works real well for hunting.

As to the location of the touch hole, higher is better, to a point.

God bless,
J.D.