Breech Question With Pic- Knight Ultralight

FishN

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Concerned that I have corrosion issues where breech plug meets barrel. I’ve always taken considerable care when cleaning. Any suggestions from here? This is a 50cal Knight Ultralight, 6 years old with no more than 10 rounds/year. I use 777, with musket caps as I’m in the west.
 

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UtahJimmy

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Looks good to me!

If you are talking about the barrel not being circular near the areas of the red arrows (sorry picture got distorted), those are the barrel riflings.
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Concerned that I have corrosion issues where breech plug meets barrel. I’ve always taken considerable care when cleaning. Any suggestions from here? This is a 50cal Knight Ultralight, 6 years old with no more than 10 rounds/year. I use 777, with musket caps as I’m in the west.
Not sure if this will help or not... but passing this on. I think I see what you are indicating in your picture. The corrosion that I am looking at is really nil and appears to be rust dots.

When I clean the BP port I use this tool.

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It is a 16 gauge shotgun fiber brush on a piece of ram rod. I think it is important to have the brush turning CCW. I spray Birchwood/Casey 2 in 1 bore scrubber on the brush. It will remove any carbon deposits and it leave a small amount of lubrication in the BP port. I believe it will also remove those small spots you are seeing.

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