One thing I've never been able to figure out in my almost 50 years of shooting black powder guns is why everyone is so afraid of a little oil in the bore. Any oil, doesn't seem to matter, it seems required that only bare metal in the bore is acceptable before loading, and if it takes alcohol, brake cleaner, acetone or who knows what other extreme solvent to get down to that, well OK, that's what it takes.
I've never done any of that with the many types of guns and loads I've shot over all those years, and if it has caused a single problem I'm too blind to see it.
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