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Unread 01-31-2023, 06:04 PM   #51
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Soap & hot water on a patch over a bore brush, dry and oil. Shouldn’t take over 10 minutes. Simplicity and inexpensive.
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So just soak a patch in hot soapy water and then dry out good and oil it up inside and out of the barrels?
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So just soak a patch in hot soapy water and then dry out good and oil it up inside and out of the barrels?
Soapy patches until nice and clean. You can alternate soap/dry, may be a bit faster. Finish with an oil patch followed with a dry one.
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Is there any particular oil that is better for old double guns or is any gun oil fine?
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My experience has been that lubed wads are much easier to load in the brass shells. The lube also leaves a coating on the bores that may help with cleanup. Cleaning black powder is not that big of deal. A person can use just warm water and a patch. Ballistol or Gunzilla are two gun cleaning products I have used without water that do a very good job as well. Another product that muzzleloaders have found works well is Windex with Vinegar. You can buy that in a spray bottle at your local Walmart. I will use this between shots when shooting muzzleloader rifles to clean up the fowling. If I use water I then always run a 90% alchohol patch down the bores to remove any remaining moisture before oiling.
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Birchwood Casey Barricade or Clenzoil are my go to oils for the bores
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Jacob, why not be easy on yourself and shoot modern powders loaded to produce appropriate pressures?





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I didn’t think you could shoot smokeless powder in these old Damascus barreled shotguns.. is that not the case?
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Jacob:

Black powder can be fun, but a hassle. My 10 gauge lifter sees smokeless powder 95 percent of the time. Here’s my preferred load, which uses the readily available WSF:

https://parkerguns.org/forums/showth...&highlight=WSF

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I was gonna be using track of the wolf brass 2 5/8 hulls and all the other components from them like the circle fly wads they sell. Will all those components still work with the smokeless powder?
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