a lot of people are not using bore butter anymore, i am going to stay with it.only problem i have is here in pa. weather gets to 10 above at times. that bore butter in barrel and on your maxi-balls gets almost impossible to load.i used to use roundball with bore butter and break ramrods in winter trying to seat them .stuff is nasty in cold weather.only way to get it to work in cold is with alcohol.we swab barrel. roundball says he keeps his patchs /ball in shirt pocket in winter. i will try that but shooting at range we had to put them in truck with heater on.