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Morris Davis
03-18-2014, 03:57 PM
I have been a black powder shooter for almost 30 years any thing from 40 cal squirrel riflers to 4 gauge blunderbus I have used all the substitutes I have to clean my guns a couple of times to get that stuff out of my bores I see some of you are using it . check your guns every couple of days after shooting it
paul stafford jr
03-19-2014, 04:41 PM
I use 1/2 in waxed card wads over the black powder sub. ,in my shot shells. what I would like to see is someone make these wads with a couple of big groves to hold some lube , kind of like the max lube lead bullets. the few I modified myself seem to work real good in keeping the fouling soft and lite. real black powder is easy to clean out. the subs seem to leave a hard fouling after 25 shells or so.
Morris Davis
03-19-2014, 08:55 PM
That is what I am saying that flowing will sweat out for a week or so after using substitutes clean often
Rick Losey
03-19-2014, 09:00 PM
i have never used the fakes, just the real stuff
but your question leads me to ask why not just use black powder?
charlie cleveland
03-19-2014, 09:30 PM
black powder is hard to come by were i live for some reason nobody handles it any more... charlie
Rick Losey
03-20-2014, 05:57 AM
http://mainepowderhouse.com/
Paul Harm
03-22-2014, 12:19 PM
I usually just order 25 pounds from Graf & Sons - it saves on the haz mat fee.
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