Oiling?

Zonie said:

For what it's worth, about the only bad thing I've heard of about Barricade is, if you live in California, it's impossible to get.

As I understand it, Birchwood Casey, for reasons known only to it, has refused to print the California cancer warning on the container.
Since everything known to mankind causes cancer in California, just about everything in that state has the, "This product contains a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm." on it.

Birchwood Casey's refusal to put that on their containers means, you can't buy Barricade in California.

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If that's the case then I applaud Barricade. I'm tired of California dictating to the rest with their over obsessives ideas on how things should be. They were the first to outlaw lead WWs. They outlawed using lead bullets without even giving consideration to MLs and the list goes on and on.

Nowhere near me has barricade, so I went with Ballistol. Hopefully it will still work well enough.

I like to keep it simple. I oil barrel and lock with a mix of 50% kerosene and 50% 2-stroke motor oil. Never had a problem with it causing fouling. Makes a pretty good penetrating oil too.

I got my barricade from Amazon.

All of my guns modern or blackpowder get WD-specialist. On the blackpowder Guns I give them a blast down the barrel and a wet patch of it. I set the barrel down for a bit to let the excess drain out. Before I shoot I blast them with chlorine free brake cleaner. Never any problems.

Many Klatch said:

I like to keep it simple. I oil barrel and lock with a mix of 50% kerosene and 50% 2-stroke motor oil. Never had a problem with it causing fouling. Makes a pretty good penetrating oil too.

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add acetone and murphys oil mineral spirits dextron 2

I don’t personally know anyone who leaves there’s dry. That is NOT good advice. These barrels are carbon steel and without protection, they WILL rust.

Ballistol attracts moisture & mixes freely with water. Not a good combination

Talk about attracting moisture just use WD-40 That is what WD-40 was design for. WD. water displacement.

Anything oily is better than nothing. Vegetable oils gum up and make a sticky mess over time and they are poor rust preventers. Animal fats and other non petroleum items are inferior to today's best. They were used because they had nothing better available.

I use real purpose made rust preventative. Any of them are fine. I used to use LPS-3 until it got too expensive and hard to find. Rig is an old favorite. I now use Fluid Film, it is lanolin based. Lots of others mentioned here are good too. IF you use oil store muzzle down to keep the breech clear of excessive oil that will cause misfires later.

For long term storage greases are best. LPS-3, Rig, Cosmoline, and pure anhydrous lanolin are excellent. None have ever failed me. They are more difficult to remove before shooting than something less sticky.

Animal fats work fine if you shoot the gun as much as you should.

I'm a Ballistol guy, and never had a problem. Use it on my percussion pistols, black powder Open Tops, and all my long arms too.

Art Caputo said:

I have found that Mink Oil(TOTW) will inhibit rust formation when applied to a clean/dry barrel for at least a year. I’ve also had good results with Ballistol.

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I like a patch with mink oil Run down the barrel, but beware it turns brown and can look like rust when you check it a week or a month later.

I find that BB gives me a slight redish brown color on a patch after a few weeks too.

I use whatever clean animal oil/grease I have on hand, if I'm shooting regularly; RIG for storage.
I had mine stored (& moved them through 3 climate zones) for 30+ years, protected by RIG. No rust anywhere. Just a thorough check & cleaning, when I could get back to shooting, and they performed as of old. (Wish I could say the same of myself, but it's still the most fun I can have clothed.)

Ouch.
When I first started ml I pulled and oiled my barrel bottoms. When I first got a pinned barrel I would pull it about once a year and wipe it with gun oil and return. About twenty years ago I started putting furniture wax in my channels only pull every two or three years. Never found any rust on a gun barrel

Archer 756 said:

Talk about attracting moisture just use WD-40 That is what WD-40 was design for. WD. water displacement.

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Many a time I’ve used WD40 to wipe a bore before drying and then oiling.
How’s it work? As far as my bores have been involved alcohol seems to work well. Or just being anal retentive over wiping with dry patches.
But they are flintlocks with flat breeches. So a pattern breach percussion is going to have more nooks and crannies for water to hide in.