Seasoning process

[drh1175]

What is the best way to season your bore and how often do you do it? My gunshop told me to put in bore butter and heat the barrel. Am I missing something or is this all that to it?

[cayugad]

Why you want to wax your barrel is beyond me... If bore butter is not applied exactly proper, you will be wiping rust out of your barrel. There is no need to season a barrel IMO but you do what you want since it is your rifle. I would personally clean the barrel and then protect it with the some quality gun oil.

I will let the bore butter experts tell you how to properly apply it. I tried for twenty years to do it right and never was able to keep the rusty patches from appearing... So now I do not worry about it.

By the way, what kind of rifle are we talking here?

[falcon]

Just clean the bore of that gun and take it out and shoot it. After you shoot the gun; clean andoil the bore:Clean the breech plug and action if it is an in-line.i have personally seen several guns whose bores wererustedfrom using bore butter. The bore can rust right under the stuff.

[srwshooter]

never had one rust with bore butter and i never put any oil in my muzzleloaders.

[frontier gander]

When i "seasoned" the bore in my deer creek i just let it sit out in the HOT sun and when it hurt my hand by tring to pick it up, i ran a doped up patch of bore butter down the bore, Worked it up and down the bore for a few strokes and then let it bake some more before running a few dry patches. I no longer due this, i dont even oil my bores in any of my muzzleloaders.

[Semisane]

Always oil my bore after cleaning, and wipe it out with two dry patches prior to shooting. Never had any problems.

Back in my misspent bore butter days, I had rust signson more than one occasion. Now it's reserved for conicals only.

[lemoyne]

Bore butter is excellant for PRB, I season the barrels on all my Renagades and Hawkens; It is my experance that it does NOT work well with Sabots. Lee

[drh1175]

Yeah that is what I thought. Why use it? Why not just do a good cleaning and then run regular gun oil lightly for season storagelike you would with any rifle. My cousin bought the Omega last year in SS and his friend bought the Blued model. After the season they both cleaned the guns real good. Then applied the bore butter. They both pulled the guns out and the Blued omega's barrel was totally rusted inside. He told me I made a mistake by buying the Blued vesion as they will rust out in a year or two? I was thinking it had to do with the bore butter. I am going to use gun oil like I do with all my other guns. If cleaned properly the oil should do a much better job right?

When I pulled my gun out 2 days ago from the Factorys box funny it had a gun oil type product in the bore. Why do they push the bore butter so much?

[Moebedda]

I have had similar results using bore butter and the barrel rusting. I don't use it anymore. When I shoot PRBs, spit works the best. I usually shoot a pillow ticking and cut my patches. I will chew on the pillow ticking and get it good and wet. It works better for PRBs than the bore butter does. This of course only when your shooting alot. For hunting on a clean bore, bore butter works good.

For seasoning, are you talking about lapping a new barrell to break it in? For lapping read chapter 6 at http://www.realtree.com/bluelk/

You can probably use JB Bore paste http://www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/store/ProductDetail.aspx?p=1160 instead of valve lapping compound.