New black powder

[ihookem]

Looks like it is clean for 80 gr. on that patch.. I love shooting black powder.

 

[HighUintas]

Looks like a good bit of blow by on that patch

 

[FrontierGander]

no blow by at all. Fouling on a greased patch. Blow by leaves cuts/holes.

 

[HighUintas]

no blow by at all. Fouling on a greased patch. Blow by leaves cuts/holes.

Blow by doesn't always cut the material. These don't look like gas leakage to you? Regardless, I guess if the accuracy is where you expect it then it doesn't matter

 

[FrontierGander]

Not at all, no swabbing between shots, so the next patch is just picking up fouling.

That's a tight cva barrel with a .020" patch

 

[ihookem]

That must be real clean burnign powder if you are not swabbing . Was the second batch with the other charcoal better , worse , or the same?

 

[HighUintas]

That must be real clean burnign powder if you are not swabbing . Was the second batch with the other charcoal better , worse , or the same?

There's no need to swab if you use a wet lube and a tight enough patch that completely fills the grooves.

 

[ihookem]

I never used a wet lube . I just greased the patch with some crisco . What kind of wet lube do you use?

 

[HighUintas]

I never used a wet lube . I just greased the patch with some crisco . What kind of wet lube do you use?

Well, it's really any lube that is wet enough to moisten the fouling making it possible to push the fouling down as you load the next one. I can't think of anything that people use that likely wouldn't work except for the "dry" patches where you put a mixture of ballistol and water on the patches and let them dry.

I typically use track of the wolf mink oil for hunting and hoppes black powder cleaner at the range. I have used spit. Some guys swear by a winter windshield washer fluid mixed w a tiny bit of neatsfoot oil, but that's because they live in cold climates and spit could freeze partway down the barrel. You could just use water if you wanted to.

But if you use a real wet lube like water, spit, oil, washer fluid, you have to shoot relatively quickly or the powder may get a little fouled from the lube, or the patch could dry out a bit making the shots inconsistent. I haven't seen any hard data on the lube fouling the powder. But that is why I only use the Hoppes cleaner at the range. I use the mink oil for hunting because it's more like a tallow and I can leave a load in the bore for months with no negative effect.