Moose Milk:
1/2 Cup Ballistol
1 Ounce Murphy's Oil Soap
2 Cups water - I use distilled water
In cold weather use a bit of 91% Rubbing Alcohol to prevent freezing.
Patch Lube:
Moisten your patches with it as a patch lube and cleaner as you shoot.
Use a small, pocket size, airtight container that will hold 20 - 30 patches. Pour just enough Moose Milk over the patches in the container to dampen all of them thoroughly. If they are too wet just squeeze the excess into the container and add a few patches. Patches can be stored like this for months so they should always be ready for your next shoot.
Cleaning Your Firearm:
After shooting plug off your vent hole or nipple and pour several ounces down the barrel.
Hold a patch over the muzzle to seal it and flip the rifle upside down and back a few times to saturate the full length.
Set the firearm aside, muzzle up to soak the breach area, to let it soak a few minutes while you put away your shooting supplies and pick up your targets. After letting it soak several minutes, pour the moose milk out the muzzle end on the ground - it's fine it's organic.
Then start running cleaning patches down your barrel as you normally would to clean it. I use the patch I use to plug the muzzle while flipping the riffle as the first patch because it's already wet with moose milk. Follow it with damp or dry patches, which ever you think is necessary to finish the job. Then run a liberally lubed patch of just Ballistol to finish.
Wipe down the exterior of the rifle with moose milk and a Ballistol patch and you're good to go - all cleaned up!
I do this at the range before coming home. When I get home I will usually pull the nipple of my percussion rifles to clean, oil and reinstall to prevent corrosion of the threads.
I have no problem leaving my rifles in this state for weeks - they are clean and lubed.
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