I emailed TC RE Bore Butter...and they replied

[GIBB]

Here is my brief email to them...

Hello,
I have a few questions....
Why should I use the butter bore to protect my barrel after I am done shooting and store my rifle? Shouldn"™t I be using a high grade oil instead then run an alcohol patch thru it once I want to shoot to clear out the oil?
I am confused on why to use a wax rather than an oil.
Can you enlighten me please?
I really do not want to pull out my Encore after sitting for several months and have rust in the barrel and I am getting mixed reviews on the Butter Bore or the T-17 Natural Lube..
In my 7mm I use oil"¦.isn"™t a barrel a barrel?
You"™re the pros"¦.I am the novice.
Advise please!
Cheers
GIBB

Here is the reply....which kind of baffles me...

We recommend using bore butter in our traditional muzzle loaders. In our inline such as the Endeavor we recommend using the #13 bore cleaner for cleaning and gun oil for storing. Thank you and have a good day.


Danielle
Customer Service Rep.
603-330-5659

Thats about as BRIEF as a reply as you can get....So the Bore Butter I can throw away or do I still use it?
Thanks
GIBB
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[cayugad]

I personally would not use it in my Traditional rifles to protect them as well. I had too many tobacco stained looking patches come out of a bore butter barrel. Bore butter is a good conical and patch/ball lube. Keep it for that in the event you ever get some conicals to shoot. Besides, you start in this sport and sooner or later you're going to branch out to traditional roundball rifles. Use it there.

[Colorado Cajun]

Save it, you could use it to lube some conicals.

[Semisane]

We recommend using bore butter in our traditional muzzle loaders. In our inline such as the Endeavor we recommend using the #13 bore cleaner for cleaning and gun oil for storing. Thank you and have a good day.

Sounds like double talk to me. Why would bore butter be appropriate for "traditional" MLs, and gun oil for "inlines such as the Endeavor"??? It would be interesting to ask them to explainwhat the difference in the barrelsis that makesthe two recommendations appropriate. As far as I'm concerned, bore butter is a conical & patch lube, oil is a barrel protector.

[sabotloader]

Semisane

Why would bore butter be appropriate for "traditional" MLs, and gun oil for "inlines such as the Endeavor"???

Could it be maybe because they expect more traditional shooters to be using real Black Powder and the inline shooters to be using a modern day sub. Real black and oil do not mix to well and can create a real fouling problem for a lot of novis shooters... who wold them be calling TC and asking why will my gun not shoot well or load well at all.

Course then if you were to ask another TC tech the whole story might change.

I hate to say this here in public cause it will start another war of words... but I have used BB for years in all of ML's and even my trap guns - it truly reduces fouling... Now I gotta yell I no longer use BB because of T17 which is much easier to apply correctly and evenly to the bore. I will agree it should not be counted on for "bore protection" but for reducing fouling it works.