Well I'm glad the olive oil patches worked for you Sabotloader. I decided to have a patch & ball week-end myself, and did a LOT of shooting with the .58 Zouave, .54 GP flintlock, and a recently acquired .50 TC hawken barrel (which you'll see in the classifieds pretty soon). I used up my 4 oz. bottle of olive oil and will have to refill it.