ORIGINAL: PSEsilverhawk55
well me and dad took our muzzleloaders out today to test them for the fall at a bubbies house,,i would like to say now i absolutly LOVE my muzzleloader,even though it is only second time shooting it,,my question is this,,When me and my dad cleaned are guns he just use bore butter on the breech plug,,as did i,,is it okay to do this or should we have use anit siege to keep the plugs from sieging during shooting,,, have a nother question as well,, when i started to take the breech plug out of the gun to clean it,,it was stuck pretty good,,we did end up breaking it loose,,is this something i should worry about or is it the type of gun and breech plug im useing,,CVA Elcipse magnum .50cal #209 primer tripple7 power,100grn. 240grn sabot
Bore butter isall I use on nipples and touch hole liners after cleaning and it works fine for that.
However, I always used Birchwood Casey's 'choke tubelube" on the breech plugs in my MK-85...a lube with crushed aluminum particles suspended in it which give added strength.
Since an inline is not vented like a traditional caplock or flintlock, and the powder charges aresometimes heavier, there's surely greater pressure in the breech area, and I always felt my 'choke tube lube'gave a strong, safe seal compared tothe relatively soft thinborebutter...and the breech plug always unscrewed easily.
A quick check of your rifle'smanufacturers manualmight ultimatelybe the best place to look.