ORIGINAL: bigcountry
What I am asking is some guys don't like to take out their butter from thier barrels. They believes it seasons the barrel. They use bore butter for about everything. I always used the borebutter for conicals, and then take home and clean it out in the sink and put some good oil in it. Some don't use your regular gun oil.
FWIW,I do use nothing but NL1000...BUT...I don't happen to buy into or trust the "seasoning" thing.
Any time Ishoot one of my hooked breech rifles, Igo through it thoroughly starting with a 15 minute soaking in a 5gal pail of steaming hot soapy water;
Then a good scrub with patches and bore brush to get it back to bare, raw metal every time;
Then a steaming hot clean water rinse;
Quick dry with patches to prevent flash rust;
5 minute air dry to let residual heat get it 100% bone dry;
ThenI absolutely plaster the bore with several applications of NL1000 so there's no question every square inch is100% heavily coated;
SUMMARY
If a bore is 100% clean...then 100% bone dry...then 100%lubed so the metal surface is insulated from air which contains moisture...it cannot rust.
And this would be true regardless of what lube is used.......however, the main benefit I like from NL1000 is thatthisapproachbasically lets me shoot as much as I want without wiping, loading is simple,accuracy is excellent, etc.
So for me, this is one of those times where I liveby the old adage:
"if it ain't broke, don't fix it"
