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
Just my opinion mind you... Bore Butter makes a great conical lube. It even makes a good patched roundball lube (although I think there are better ones). As for anything else, I have no use for Bore Butter. As a breech plug lube,
NO! That is the reason you had the plug sieze. Get a quality breech plug grease, or use one of the many tapes out there, but use the bore butter for what it was intended for. The best breech plug grease I have found is
CVA Slick Breech Plug and Nipple Grease. The stuff really works.
I have a CVA Staghorn Magnum which is very similar in design to your Eclipse. Of all my inline rifles, this is the one rifle that has never given me any problems with a stuck breech plug. Another thing you can do, finger tighten the breech plug only, then back it off just a little. It will tighten itself us as you shoot. Also while on the range I take a small screwdriver, put it in the breech plug wrench slot and just twist that breech plug back and fourth every 10 shot to make sure the plug is not freezing up. That is a great shooting rifle you have there. Use the right grease for the job and you will have no problem.