Well this is just my opinion, but the bore butter is a good conical lube and that's about it. Other then that it is not worth the plastic tube it comes in. I know people use it and claim it works great to reduce fowling. And that's fine, if they like bore butter then by all means use it. Well I do not use it and can see no real benefit they are getting from the use of bore butter then I am getting without using it.

I feel most people like myself who have had bad experiences with bore butter might not have applied it properly. Now I always considered myself a knowledgeable person and one who could follow instructions, and have on different occasions tried to use bore butter the way it was explained to me. I have to admit, all my attempts have failed.

I used to be a bore butter user until the rifle's accuracy went bad andI would constantly get what I term tobacco patches, which are patches with a brown tobacco colored stain on them, come out the bore when swabbing. If your rifle is alledged to be clean, well then you should not be able to pull out a patch with tobacco colored fowling on it.

It all boils down to, I do not see the need to apply a wax type substance to my modern steel barrels to protect them,when I can protect them with a quality gun oil. Since I see no reduction in fowling using bore butter, then there is noreason to use it. I clean the rifle as I would any other center fire rifle. I then make sure the rifle does not rust by the application of a quality gun oil.

For those that use the bore butter and have good luck with it.. great, use it in your rifles. I will keep it out of mine.