Rusty Bore?

[PNWtrekker]

Good evening. I shot my muzzleloader last weekend. I took it out of the safe tonight to do some prep for this weekend. There was a fine orangish residue in the barrel. Is this rust? It was a little off colored and wiped out easily enough. To clean it after last weekend. I used a toothpick to plug the flash hole, let hot water with a little dawn dish soap sit in the barrel. Poured it out, used a bore brush, swabbed the barrel out with cotton patches, let the rifle sit upside down awhile, and swabbed again until dry. I followed up with a product called spit bath that came with some used gear I bought, did the whole bore brush and swab routine again. I followed up with some bore butter, oiled her down and put her away. I have since, bought some ballistol oil and will be switching to that.

 

[TDM]

If I remember correctly bore butter can leave an orange tint. The ballistol will serve you well.

 

[kyron4]

Bore butter will oxidize and turn orange as will some oils . I had it happen to me when I first got started in BP a few years ago, thought the same thing that it was rust.

Clean with warm water, dry well, protect with your choice of oil, I use CLP . Swab with an alcohol patch and dry before shooting.

 

[kyron4]

If I remember correctly bore butter can leave an orange tint. The ballistol will serve you well.

You beat me to it by seconds ! Ha ha...

 

[TDM]

You beat me to it by seconds ! Ha ha...

I usually come in second with my slow fingers.

 

[PNWtrekker]

Whew... thanks! I'll change up my routine.

 

[hunter thompson]

I Make sure the waters boiling just cause that will evaporate and then completely cool the barrel then the ballistol but prefer tc/no 13 then bore butter ..never ever had any problems evah

 

[bronko220002]

I Make sure the waters boiling just cause that will evaporate and then completely cool the barrel then the ballistol but prefer tc/no 13 then bore butter ..never ever had any problems evah

I used to wash with warm soapy water followed by a boiling water rinse. I would always get flash rust. I switched my rinse now to just to just hot water from the tap. It gets the barrel hot enough. Run a couple dry patches thru the bore followed by a couple 91% alcohol patches, dry patch and oiled patch. I let the barrel/rifle stand muzzle down for a day to allow excess oil to flow out and not collect in the breech area.