New to black powder

[frocb]

I am brand new to the world of muzzle loading. I have a Remington Genesis and need to do the initial cleaning. I've read several posts and would like some clear instructions onhow it should be done.Will Cayugad's 50/50 mix do the job or will I need something else. Also once I'm done with the initial cleaning do I need to put on a coat of lub to store it.

[gleason.chapman]

ORIGINAL: frocb

I am brand new to the world of muzzle loading. I have a Remington Genesis and need to do the initial cleaning. I've read several posts and would like some clear instructions onhow it should be done.Will Cayugad's 50/50 mix do the job or will I need something else. Also once I'm done with the initial cleaning do I need to put on a coat of lub to store it.

Sure the 50/50 of Cayugad works well and is cheap. I use rusty duck (Walmart)or Cayugad's mistureand clean until the patch is absolutely clean, usually 4 or 5 patches---I always swab between shots and if I am done with a gun at the range I will swab once to get most fowling out of the barrel. Then I dry patch once. Then I use a bore brush down a few times. Then another rusty duck patch, then a dry patch again. Then a patch of bore butter, just a touch. Here is some other info on cleaning which is good:

http://www.chuckhawks.com/clean_muzzleloader.htm

Bottom line, elbow grease. I don't put my gun in water, I don't like the hot water baths, too messy. Chap Gleason

PS. Forgot about the breech plug. Place that in 4 oz plastic disposalable cup with just 93% rubbing alcohol and clean it up with an old tooth brush. I use the tooth brush also to get in the threads inside the barrel. I dry the breech plug with a clean dry patch. That is the basic procedue of gun cleaning. If you have a Knight disc you should take that apart also and clean it with the mixture you use to clean the barrel, then blow it off with some of that canned air they sell for cleaning computers, then a light coat of Rem oil.

[cayugad]

Being new, there is no need to scrub the barrel as there better not be any residue in it.. Clean it with that 50/50 mixture until you get snow white patches. Then some dry ones pushed through, and finally oil the bore with some good gun oil if you are not going to shoot it right away.

If you are concerned the bore is ruff, take some cotton balls and push them through the barrel. Then you can hold the barrel up to the light and look down through it for cotton fibers stuck all over the side of the bore. If there are, then you need to get some JB Bore Paste and scrub the barrel. Instructions are on the jar.

I do like to have a good solvent around the house. Only for the sake of any plastic or lead build up, but I have noticed these new projectiles produce little to none. Now if you shoot lots of conicals that might be a different story.

Good luck with your rifle. Maybe Underclocked can give you some loads he might have worked up for his. I know he has one of them as well.

[Underclocked]

Would like to be able to but have only shot the rifle once, and that wasn't really a good session for most as I was shooting conicals. Did fairly well though.

One thing I would suggest is you disassemble the rifle and become familiar with the parts.Be sure to get the firing pin back together correctly (fairly obvious). Make sure the "torch cam" is clean, the matching face of the barrel should also be free of any grease or grit. Remove the breechplug, clean it and put some good anti-seize (or Slick50 ONE grease) on its threads before reinstalling it. Otherwise clean as Cayugad has indicated.

Here is something I hope you find useful: http://home.mchsi.com/~rltsr2/GenesisParts.jpg

[frontier gander]

i just used 409 kitchen degreaser. Make sure you clean the breech plug and the threads inside the barrel.

[outdoorslover]

I use TC's bore cleaner. It has worked excellent so far. I simply take out the breech plug, run tons of wet patches and then push dry patches through until they come sparkly clean. Then I clean the breech plug threads, clean the breech plug(throw it in a container of soapy water and scrub it), put grease on the breech plug, and reassemble and oil everything or use bore butter. No rust or problems so far with that method.

Hope I helped.

[frocb]

Gentlemen, thank you for the advice. Thats plenty to get me started.