If you guys go up to deer camp or on a hunt with a muzzle loader, then what do you do to make sure your gun doesn' t corrode (sp) after shooting it? If your out ruffing it or something how do you cleand a ML, can you just saturate it with bore butter and hope that last a few days? Thanks-Sam
Sam,
There is a great product called T/C #13 that works great as bore cleaner, or even a patch lube. It looks like milk. If you run a saturated patch through your barrel as if you were cleaning it and then follow it with dry patches, then you can finish it off with a patch of bore butter. This will easily get you through your hunting trip. Don' t forget to clean your nipple, and I would fire a couple of caps off before I loaded again.
Another way, is to heat up water over the camp fire and clean it as you would at home.
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Hot water, soap, patchs, jag, brush and if your real crazy a little funnel() are all you need to clean a ML. I do use black duck BP solevant at home, but never take it with me on a back bush style hunt, but you easily could(it ain' t that big of a bottle). I always carry rem oil or similar with a rag to wipe down the outside.
The ramrod will act as the cleaning rod, attachments and patches fit in a small ziploc bag. You always take water, pot and some dish soap...no big add ons there. I do know guys who have shot and left them for longer periods of time than a week and while it may take a bit to clean they seem alright. I on the other handle am ANAL about cleaning/care of all my firearms, so I pack cleaning supply no matter what I am using, just never know!
Well, usually in that postion, I will only shoot once or twice and then go home with my bounty. Or the gun stays loaded all weekend. You should have everything you need to field strip a gun and give it a good once over with you. I carry everything I need in a little 8" " possbilitys bag. Don' t need to do the whole water thing. If it is a inline with a faster 1:28 twist and sabots, you don' t want to use bore butter. But use #13 as described in another post. If you are hunting in salty conditions or marsh, carry ya some oil.
I only shoot and hunt with Savage 10ML-II muzzleloaders these days. Since they are the only smokeless powder muzzleloader on the market, and since that is all I shoot in them, there is no corrosion at all, even if I let them set in the safe a week or even a month or two before I clean them.
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Saturate it with Bore Butter, and you' ll need a new barrel!!! I have had some real rust problems using Bore Butter in a rifle that was cleaned with No. 13, but never had ANY RUSTING problems with any gun cleaned over the past 40 years with plain, boiling water. Forget soap, it is NOT NEEDED!!
What you do, is you take a cleaning rod, a dozen or so dry, clean patches, a small funnel, and a small bottle of a good oil with you to camp. When in camp after firing the thing, (SAME DAY), remove the nipple and pour two quarts of boiling WATER through the bore. Then, while barrel it is still hot, wipe bore with two or three patches. This will dry the bore completely. Next, use a moist patch to wipe all fouling off of the breech section, the bolster, nipple, hammer, and anywhere else there' s fouling on the outside. Then use another, oily patch to oil the bore, and all other parts you can reach.
If you are going to hunt again next day, then omit the oiling and just make sure the bore and all cleaned parts are completely dry for reloading tomorrow!!
This way, all you need is the rod, patches, funnel, and a little oil. The old timers (mountain men) always cleaned their guns with boiling water. It was always available in the field.
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What to do with your ML.
) are all you need to clean a ML. I do use black duck BP solevant at home, but never take it with me on a back bush style hunt, but you easily could(it ain' t that big of a bottle). I always carry rem oil or similar with a rag to wipe down the outside. 
