Shooting conicals dry

[jtmattison]

I was wondering if any of you who shoot conicals shoot them dry, with no lube in the grooves.
I was thinking that if they are shot dry with a lubed wad under them it would be fine and the mess of filling the grooves would not be necessary.
I don't think leading is a problem with muzzleloaders because of the low velocity so maybe so much lube is not needed.

Huntin

 

[mike alexandre]

Leading is very much a problem with ML. If you dont lube or paper wrap the bullet leadings going to catch you and it isnt pleasent to remove.

 

[Tahquamenon]

You will experience rapid and chronic fouling if you shoot unlubed or un-wrapped conical's regardless of what velocity.

There are some that are available with a more dry lube. These work well. The hornady great plains uses a drier lube.

For copper or lead fouling I use a good bore solvent (Butch's Bore Shine or the like) and brass brush for 20-30 strokes followed by another 20-30 with a soaked patches.

Lead and copper fouling will occur even with lubricants, but it takes quite a bit longer before accuracy suffers.
(I remove fouling every 75-100 shots or so just to keep things clean and consistant)

 

[roundball]

FWIW, years ago I bought an Outer's Electro-Chemical Bore Cleaner kit and it is simply unbelieveable in how well it works.

It easily removed more lead from a couple of revolvers I used for action pistol shooting, after I thought I had it all out;

And it pulled every bit of copper fouling off the bore walls of various centerfire rifles I had.

Takes 5 minutes to set it up...go watch the news...come back and the collector rod will be covered with lead or copper, depending on what you're trying to clean out of the bore

 

[Tahquamenon]

I'll have to look for one.
I've always use the El'Manual method.

 

[Slamfire]

Outer's Foul Out :thumbsup:

 

[Tahquamenon]

Thanks Slamfire!