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<blockquote data-quote="David Emerson" data-source="post: 1834412" data-attributes="member: 112579"><p>The gun will tell you if it is getting fouled too much but from what you have written how would you know? Factory rifles with hammer forged barrels are awful for building copper. Ruger seems to be the only domestic maker to get it figured out. Bore snakes. THROW THEM AWAY. They can get grit in the rope and scratch up your barrel!!! A good coated rod such as a dewey or tipton. I have a double barrel 50 cal muzzleloader. I had been using stainless rods like everyone else. I thought it would be good enough for it. Scratched it up bad. A 50 cal barrel is big enough you can see down into it and black powder barrels are soft steel. I use a good powder solvent to get the carbon out. Bore tech products are very good. Even old hoppes #9 works good for carbon. Then a good copper solvent. When your patches do not come out blue anymore all should be good. After you get it completely clean dry it and then a very light oil on a patch and coat the barrel and you are done. I do not know if you can get it in Turkey but I use Kroil. You can make your own with automatic transmission fluid and acetone or naphtha. 1 part oil and 2 parts solvent. Acetone works better but naphtha is safer. Use it where you have ventilation and no smoking. If you shoot a dry barrel it will strip off copper badly. I put it on a patch so you have a circle about the size of the end of your thumb and a fairly tight fitting patch. And if you are thinking about using Barnes bullets all the gilding metal fouling must be completely gone. The harder gilding metal will strip off the soft copper and you will have a mess and your barrel will be full of copper.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="David Emerson, post: 1834412, member: 112579"] The gun will tell you if it is getting fouled too much but from what you have written how would you know? Factory rifles with hammer forged barrels are awful for building copper. Ruger seems to be the only domestic maker to get it figured out. Bore snakes. THROW THEM AWAY. They can get grit in the rope and scratch up your barrel!!! A good coated rod such as a dewey or tipton. I have a double barrel 50 cal muzzleloader. I had been using stainless rods like everyone else. I thought it would be good enough for it. Scratched it up bad. A 50 cal barrel is big enough you can see down into it and black powder barrels are soft steel. I use a good powder solvent to get the carbon out. Bore tech products are very good. Even old hoppes #9 works good for carbon. Then a good copper solvent. When your patches do not come out blue anymore all should be good. After you get it completely clean dry it and then a very light oil on a patch and coat the barrel and you are done. I do not know if you can get it in Turkey but I use Kroil. You can make your own with automatic transmission fluid and acetone or naphtha. 1 part oil and 2 parts solvent. Acetone works better but naphtha is safer. Use it where you have ventilation and no smoking. If you shoot a dry barrel it will strip off copper badly. I put it on a patch so you have a circle about the size of the end of your thumb and a fairly tight fitting patch. And if you are thinking about using Barnes bullets all the gilding metal fouling must be completely gone. The harder gilding metal will strip off the soft copper and you will have a mess and your barrel will be full of copper. [/QUOTE]
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