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[Ohio Joe]

2thdoc,,, I also have a .45 caliber, 42 inch 13/16th GMB, Dickert flintlock. I plink with 45 grains 3fg Goex... Seriously target shoot with 50, 55, 60, and 65 grains of 3fg... I haven't felt the rifle loads unsafe at all... I cut my dovetails for underlugs, rear and front sight's at .080 depth... On a GMB .45 x 13/16 you should have .165 from the outside flat to the bottom of the bore groove... I will add this; when I build another I plan on going only .065 deep with the dovetails... The less metal taken away is always preferable...

 

[Zonie]

I gotta agree with Stumpkiller.
Hydrogen Peroxide is just water with extra oxygen molecules attached to the water molecule. Iron + oxygen equals RUST.

I also don't know where this Hydrogen Peroxide manure came from but it surely wasn't from anyone who passed High School Chemistry class.
I suppose it was added by someone who was fascinated with all of the little bubbles. He probably thought "Boy O Boy! Those little bubbles will get down in there and really clean stuff out! It will be squeeky clean!!!!!"

Yes, I know many of you use this stuff and it is the neatest thing sence sliced bread but I think you have whatever oil/wax your using to thank for the lack of rust, not the Hydrogen Peroxide.

IMO about the only thing which would be worse than pouring Hydrogen Peroxide down the barrel would be to use bleach or to not clean the barrel at all.

 

[TwoShadows]

Azeronie, yew don thank thet televishun wud lie does ya? Haint yew seed them scrubbin bubbles chase all thet crud outten them terlet[url] bowles....scrubbin[/url] bubbles....scrubbles bubbles.......ragnosed rafle barrels is jest terlet bowls wif rifflin in em aint they? Mebbe them scrubbin bubbles iz whut makes em bofe smell gooder.

 

[Ohio Joe]

I don't think anyone said the hydrogen peroxide cleaning concoction would prevent rust... You still have to get your bore dry whether you use water or the "concoction" before oiling the bore... A person can get a rusty patch from just using plain water to clean with if they don't get the bore dry before oiling it. I don't believe a person even needs to use the peroxide in the "concoction". It can be replaced with water. I'm constantly deluting my solution with water.

 

[Zonie]

Azeronie, yew don thank thet televishun wud lie does ya? Haint yew seed them scrubbin bubbles chase all thet crud outten them terlet[url] bowles....scrubbin[/url] bubbles....scrubbles bubbles.......ragnosed rafle barrels is jest terlet bowls wif rifflin in em aint they? Mebbe them scrubbin bubbles iz whut makes em bofe smell gooder.

Twoshadders: Ah'm jus goina haf ta tak yur word fer it. Ah doesn't watch much o that tellervision. Ah wood rathar sit har a jawin wit ye an tha others, or go out an work on the C gun.

Oh, Ah dosn't think Ah tol ye she got moved up a grade. She ain't a B gun no more. She's now gonna be called a C gun 'cus Ah can writ Cannoe har on the Forum but Ah kan't writ Bastard.

Ah thin with that short 31 inch barrel she'd fit rite in one o them Cannoes, an iffen ye dropped yur paddle, ye could jus use her butt fer an ore.

As fer smillin gooder, 'bout the best way ta do that are ta burn some Swiss powder in um. Ah thin em Swiss put in a lil o that special scat what comes from em special sheeps what lives up on em steep mountin sides ta give it that fin boquet. ::

 

Peroxide is used in a solution to remove copper fouling from bench rest rifles. The solution is called Blue Goop. It is a combination of peroxide, water, & amonia. Copper in the form of bullet jackets(guilding metal) or wire is added at first to "Kick" the solution off. It is later removed as when the solution is a nice blue colour from disolved copper, it's ready for use.
: I don't know how peroxide got into a BP cleaning solution, either.