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Last Saturday, while waiting for a young grizzly to move a bit further away from my cabin, I had a chance to give my flintlock a good going over.

Here's what I did and I would like some feedback, because it worked great. I took my range rod, put a brass brush on it, put it in my power drill and ran it down the barrel. Seemed to work great. Then I wrapped a patch around the brush and ran that down to clean al the loose manure out.

Worked great, but there has to be something wrong or someone on the forum would have suggested it, or I missed it.

Thanks in advance. I do not get back to the forum as often as I would like, but I will check up as conditions allow.
 
I've never tried it, nor seen a need for it, but, have a blackpowder buddy that does it to his smoothie now and again.

No ill effects have been noted yet.

Best regards, Skychief
 
Been doing that for years in my smoothies. Haven't seen anything remotely resembling damage to my barrels.
 
I used a bronze brush covered in fine steel wool and soaked in oil to remove burrs in the the barrel and chamber of a cheap and nasty Chinese made shotgun .
It did a fine job and didn't take too long .
My conclusion is that the speed of the drill makes the process very effective .

I would use a power driven bronze brush once in a while to remove excessive fouling , but not every time . If you do , you may abrade the barrel more than you think .
All things in moderation .
 
I did that trying to remove plastic shot-cup residue from BP shotshells in a modern barrel. It didn't work too well. Used Hoppe's #9 with benzene added in, and one swipe with a wadded up cloth, doused with the stuff, and clean as a whistle. I mention it here for the folks to think about if they are going to use plastic shot-cups with a muzzle loader.

LD
 
I do the same thing. Particularly in 6 gun revolver cylinders (pull the grips first if tthe cylinder has a crane). That caked on residue can be really stubborn.
 
After he ate most of my honey, he wandered off into the rocks. Just days away from putting up an electric fence to control bears. It seems every time I make the cabin a bit more primitive, I get new and unexpected forms of wildlife. Never saw a grizzly in the area until Saturday.
 
wpjson said:
Last Saturday, while waiting for a young grizzly to move a bit further away from my cabin, I had a chance to give my flintlock a good going over.

Here's what I did and I would like some feedback, because it worked great. I took my range rod, put a brass brush on it, put it in my power drill and ran it down the barrel. Seemed to work great. Then I wrapped a patch around the brush and ran that down to clean al the loose manure out.

Worked great, but there has to be something wrong or someone on the forum would have suggested it, or I missed it.

Thanks in advance. I do not get back to the forum as often as I would like, but I will check up as conditions allow.
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I have used one of these for many decades they are like a lapping tool and remove lead fouling and surface rust they can be had in different sizes to fit different bores
Feltwad
 
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