ORIGINAL: Landngroove
cayugad: Are you saying that you use a lubed patch, with a roundball, and leave your muzzleloader loaded for a few days, (hunting) and it still shoots with no noticible lack of performance. If so, that is great. I agree with all you say about lack of fowling, cleanup, etc. I have hunted with A.P.P., with sabots (dry), but plan on more traditional hunting, with patched roundballs, out of flinters, and sidelocks this year.
I never was one to leave my rifle loaded for a couple days. I fire it at the end of the day, clean it and start fresh again the next day. I've never used Clean Shot for hunting either. When I hunt it is usually Goex black powder now. I do a lot of target shooting and one of the things I have shot is Clean Shot. I actually like the powder. And yes I shoot lubed patches and conicals with the Clean Shot and never had any problem. People told me that the Clean Shot (or APP) has a moisture problem, so when it was snowing, I went out and shot all afternoon in the snow and never had a problem.
I do not think it would work for flinters. The best and most trusted powder still for flinters is pure black powder. Next time to the city I am going to get some APP in 3f just to play with.
I shot some 2 pounds of 3f Pinnacle and it worked real good and I did not think the fowling was bad at all, but of course I shoot Goex so anything is better then that. Do they have any of that Black Mag3 in your area? I would be checking that stuff out if it were in my area....