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I had a friend that would store his rifle by pouring crisco down the barrel after cleaning it? His thoughts were no air getting inside the barrel meant no rust? I never tried it but it sounds logical to me?
 
This might be HC. It's at least PC.

The gun might shoot a little high. 🤔

They are saying though. Good on carbon steel.. good for wood. It's not bad.
 

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I must admit, I am one of those Bore Butter Guys!! I use it as mentioned above” inside and out” and the only problem I have is Oh I don’t have any !!! No Rust,has been this way since it first came out and I started using it. Hope this helps, Reds
I buy it from RMC products and order in bulk like everything else muzzleloader. caps thousands at a time, balls the same, patch material by the whole bolt, powder by the case from Deercreek I never worry about running out
 
i switched from gun oil to olive oil cause she was complaining about the smell,,,than i had a couple of frose nipples so i switched to bore butter,,but i liked the olive oil cause when it got rancid and smelled it was time to clean again,,had its own timer..i met a guy that just sprays his service weapon with wd40 and wipes it down,,not so sure about that,,but he came back from the desert storm doing it,sprays it daily ,cleans it monthly,,unless he fires it..
 
I have never had any rust ever even i humid summer FLUSH with boiling water from drawing it from a coffee can with murphys oil soap,(plunger motion)ley cool wipe flash rust out with t/c no13 moose milk then dry then bore butter the inside.15 years my fathers has been sitting with this cure.and took it down to shoot it and the bore butter was brown but wiped right out with moose milk back to pristine
 
I'm not putting down anybody's cleaning method or choices of gun cleaner/lube/preservative. You can go 21st century or 18th century or even earlier, and if you're happy, that's all that matters. From what I've read, and I don't know much about it, sperm whale oil was the preferred gun oil a couple hundred years ago, but it was expensive and hard to get. I would imagine Daniel Boone and friends probably used bacon grease, hog lard, etc. because that's what they had on hand and it worked good enough. They couldn't hop on Amazon and get sperm oil delivered to their cabin doors but if they could have again I bet they would've preferred that. My 2¢ worth is if you are concerned about keeping rust at bay to try a few modern products any of which would probably be superior to the bacon grease type diy stuff. Think back to the 70s or 80s when lots of guys spent good money to get oil filter cannisters that took rolls of toilet paper. The company that sold them touted the super filtration, low cost, ease of replacement etc. that their TP method offered. I wonder how many engines got locked up a few miles down the road when that roll of Charmin turned to a soggy lump of paper. Neither the old ways nor the latest gee whiz ways are always the best ways.
I rendered down some beef fat! It was pretty white but wanted to try it haven't yet but going to. Anybody use beef fat ?
 
I am by no means an expert but form what I have seen and read, a lot of it depends on the climate you live in and how you store your firearms. I have had good luck with ballistol but I store mine in my temperature controlled, cool basement in a safe. I did have an issue with rust on the outside of my concealed carry pistol one time when I was camping in the summer heat and had it in my front pocket. Since then, I use Renaissance Wax on that one gun and have not had any issues. I do wipe it down after each carry with a rag that has some wax on it as well.
 
I clean it with water , 3 dry patches , then dip one of those dry patches in motor oil , not too much ... Push it to the breach , tooth brush scrub the pan and general area , wipe dry same area ... pull oil patch out , wipe barrel length , pan and lock ...anything else iron ...Never had any rust any where , bore or any thing else since switching from gun oil to motor oil ... Hershel House showed me that ...
 
K.I.S.S.
I clean, dry, oil, (grease for some), put it away.

I only have three types of oil:
Barricade
Hopps #9
Pure Bear Oil (black bear I think)

I have a couple others but they are for unmentionables only. However I use the same process;
Clean, Dry, Oil, (grease), put it away
 
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