Bore Butter swabing for accuracy

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01-18-2007, 05:10 PM

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alleyyooper

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RE: Bore Butter swabing for accuracy

Not only do I get the look but the finger. No not that finger

, the trigger finger point just like the children used to get when the finger pointed and voice said ya better straighten up.

01-19-2007, 11:47 AM

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eldeguello

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RE: Bore Butter swabing for accuracy

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ORIGINAL: bowbender6

Any body tried swabing like this link says?
http://www.eabco.com/Muzzleloader04.htm

I only had time for 3 shots but I got a 1 1/2" group with my Omega 100 gr ff and 175 gr duplex dead center bullets. I can usually just hunt the weekends and my thinking is the bore butter will help protect the gun for a day or two will I am hunting. I realy don't want to fixrea fouling shoot at 6:00 in the morning. And my first test looks like shooting the impact is the same with a clean (bore butter) and dirty but swabbed (bore butter) barrel. Looks weather is not going to let met shoot for a while.
Any thoughts?

Yes, I have a number of thoughts. But as a preamble let me admit that I have strong prejudices against Bore Butter, based on personal experience with the stuff for 30 years!. It is basically good for one thing, and that is LIGHTLY lubricating cloth patches (and Wonder Wads)that are to be used with round balls!

Basically, seasoning is for frying pans, NOT rifle barrels! I say this after at least three extensive attempts at seasoning different BP barrels to see if this treatment had any benefits at all. This, starting in about 1975 and being totally abandoned about 2001 - it just does NOT work!

I have, however, had excellent accuracy results shooting naked, pure lead bullets on top of WonderWads of the appropriate diameter, and these wads ARE lubed with something along the lines of Bore Butter -but NOT MUCH of the stuff.

I caution you - swabbing a bore with Bore Butter after firing it, and hoping thatthe stuff will protect your bore from corrosion without a thorough cleaning on the same day you fired it is inviting a ruined bore. Of course, how long after shooting it you can wait to clean it without a problem depends alot on the relative humidity where you live.If you are in AZ or NM, you could perhaps wait up to a week. But here in PA, forget it!And this is true whether or not you use Bore Butter.

These groups, .45 & .50 cal Bill-Large barreled Hawkens withslow twists,(100 yards), were shot with home-cast, pure lead naked Maxiballs and Wonder Wads. Absolutely NO leading, either! The loads given are very consistent, as well....

01-19-2007, 12:34 PM

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bowbender6

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RE: Bore Butter swabing for accuracy

Thanks for the input. I think I'll play around with bore butter for accuarcy but I don't think I'll trust it for protection for any lenght of time. I need some good weather so I can shoot.

01-19-2007, 01:43 PM

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eldeguello

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RE: Bore Butter swabing for accuracy

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ORIGINAL: bowbender6

Thanks for the input. I think I'll play around with bore butter for accuarcy but I don't think I'll trust it for protection for any lenght of time. I need some good weather so I can shoot.

I have found Birchwood-Casey SHEATH to be very effective forprotecting steel components of firearms (and reloading tools/equipment) AFTER all powder fouling and dirt have been removed. I used it for three years in Alaska on blued firearms, and got back to the Lower 48 with no rust on any of them......