Like a more effective bore seasoning that would actually prevent rust. I know there’s just bore butter and a million lubes but they don’t really tighten the group or give consistency to a cleaned barrel from my experience. There’s always that first shot after being cleaned that’s a whizzer. It seems it’s this way even with a tight patch. Unless you wanted to go through the process of sighting your gun in on a spotless barrel. It’s just more repeatable and easy to shoot a fouled barrel which still accounts for swabbing between shots. When I’m hunting I’ve never had a problem leaving a gun loaded for a week even in the coastal rainforest of Washington state during the monsoon season and I just use a number 11 percussion cap. I have a family technique to waterproofing the load from both ends completely. The gun has always gone off when I pull the trigger and I have never had a hang fire. I’ve even fully submerged my muzzleloader while doing river crossings and still haven’t had problems with ignition afterwards. There’s a more traditional and a more modern trick for this. So the only problem I have had is corrosion in the barrel. The best way I’ve found to essentially keep your fouling shot and still mostly protect the barrel is number one flex tape, but number two is bore butter. So I’ll shoot my muzzleloader to get a fouling shot then reload. Then all I do is swab the barrel a few times with a bore butter like mixture until the inside has a liberal coat. Finally the muzzle gets topped off with a piece of flex seal tape. I think it would just be easier to use some sort of bore coating to swab the barrel on top of the load that better emulates BP fouling without having to discharge your gun first. Especially after you get back from the range and have to clean your gun to get it ready for your hunt only to have to discharge it before you can make an accurate shot. Has anyone accomplished this?
