NL1000 Lube comment

[roundball]

FWIW, in planning to shoot a .50cal caplock for a change this coming Monday, I uncased it to set it out and decided to check the bore...it was still perfect.

Last time I shot it was a year and a half ago...cleaned with hot soapy water & hot water rinse, bone dried it, and plastered it heavily with Natural Lube 1000...bore still looks like new.

 

[BS]

Too bad you don't shoot very often! :rotf: :rotf:

Couldn't help myself. :grin:

 

[roundball]

Too bad you don't shoot very often! :rotf: :rotf:

Couldn't help myself. :grin:

:grin:
I think this will be the third caplock outing I've had in almost 5 years...I'm glad nobody will be videotaping me the first few minutes...last time I decided to shoot a caplock, I had ingrained such habits from all the Flintlock shooting that I was reaching for things that weren't there like a rag to wipe the pan, then a pan primer, etc...was all disjointed for the first half dozen shots or so...funny

 

[Halftail]

FWIW, in planning to shoot a .50cal caplock for a change this coming Monday, I uncased it to set it out and decided to check the bore...it was still perfect.

Last time I shot it was a year and a half ago...cleaned with hot soapy water & hot water rinse, bone dried it, and plastered it heavily with Natural Lube 1000...bore still looks like new.

I used NL1000 for years.It worked great then it got hard to come by and expensive so I switched.

BTW....What does FWIW mean?I see it here and there but still can't figure what it it an acronym for. :redface:

 

[roundball]

FWIW, in planning to shoot a .50cal caplock for a change this coming Monday, I uncased it to set it out and decided to check the bore...it was still perfect.

Last time I shot it was a year and a half ago...cleaned with hot soapy water & hot water rinse, bone dried it, and plastered it heavily with Natural Lube 1000...bore still looks like new.

I used NL1000 for years.It worked great then it got hard to come by and expensive so I switched.

BTW....What does FWIW mean?I see it here and there but still can't figure what it it an acronym for. :redface:

FWIW = For what it's worth.........

Yes, the price is getting on up there...the good news is a tube last a long time...and the even better news is that I stumbled across a garage business going out of business sale...bought a case and a half of tubes for $3/tube

 

[Halftail]

For what it's worth,while I was reading another post it came to me what it meant.
Thanks Roundball for the reply anyway. :v

 

[musketman]

I think this will be the third caplock outing I've had in almost 5 years...

What???

Are you swinging back to caplocks? :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

I figured out how them old poppin caps worked, there is ground up flint chips in them, that's why the nipples get word down with use, they were made from old frizzen faces... (OK, maybe not exactly that way, but it sure sounds more believable than fulminate of mercury)

 

[Snuffy]

I need to check some of my rifles too. Been a couple of years for a few of them not getting any use. I use gun oils down the chute but I don't trust any of them oils to last forever.

 

[roundball]

I think this will be the third caplock outing I've had in almost 5 years...

What???
Are you swinging back to caplocks? :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

:grin: ...no, I've sold off a lot of centerfire rifles, special deer shotguns, and even some caplocks since going head over heels into Flintlocks...knew I wouldn't use them any more, etc...thought I'd shoot a caplock again and try to decide if I want to keep what I have left or at least move a couple more out...not much point in keeping them all laying around unused like the centerfires were :hmm:

 

[roundball]

I need to check some of my rifles too. Been a couple of years for a few of them not getting any use. I use gun oils down the chute but I don't trust any of them oils to last forever.

Several years ago I got in the habit of doing that...get shut in on a particularly bad winter day or something, and spend some time running through every one of them, at least yearly...it's easy for time to slip up on you before you know it.

I keep a detailed history file on my PC for every firearm I own and it jumps right out at you when you open a file to make another entry and see that the only activity for a given rifle has been to check/lube the bore every year for the past few years.

 

[2172]

By coincidence, I dug out my lefthanded CVA Squirrel rifle in .32 this morning. I had grandsons #3 and #4 (9 and 8) who wanted to shoot a muzzleloader. It still shoots great, the boys were happy, and then I sat down to clean it...Lord, am I embarrassed...after hot soapy water, a bore brush, three or 4 different bore cleaners, I am still getting sorta dirty patches..I suspect I have some deep seated rust....I'm about to declare that I've "seasoned" the bbl and just give it a good coat of bore butter and put it away....my #2 grandson shot this rifle a good deal about 4 or 5 years ago, and I suspect it didn't get cleaned the way it was supposed to...I may start going through the whole "unshot" family...Hank

 

[2172]

By coincidence, I dug out my lefthanded CVA Squirrel rifle in .32 this morning. I had grandsons #3 and #4 (9 and 8) who wanted to shoot a muzzleloader. It still shoots great, the boys were happy, and then I sat down to clean it...Lord, am I embarrassed...after hot soapy water, a bore brush, three or 4 different bore cleaners, I am still getting sorta dirty patches..I suspect I have some deep seated rust....I'm about to declare that I've "seasoned" the bbl and just give it a good coat of bore butter and put it away....my #2 grandson shot this rifle a good deal about 4 or 5 years ago, and I suspect it didn't get cleaned the way it was supposed to...I may start going through the whole "unshot" family...Hank