As you might be aware, I tried a .54 caliber barrel following Sabotloader and your instructions with the Bore Butter, again. Having used Bore Butter in the past and having some rather bad experiences with it, I wanted to prove to myself that your method of using bore butter was easy and produced better results then my current procedure. I really saw no advantage in loading the Bore Butter barrel over the same type of barrel I treated with Birchwood Casey Bore products. As far a the need to swab, fowling, etc. again no real benifit. I also saw no increase in accuracy.

What I did find was Bore Butter seemed a real pain to use. If weget to the topic of ease of use, the Bore Butter was definitely a looser. After cleaning the barrel in basically the same manner as I did with with the Birchwood Casey products, back to bare metal, I then had to heat the barrel up with boiling water, dry patch it bone dry (and hope you missed nothing), then apply a large amount of bore butter to the HOT barrel,smear/melt the bore butterin the hot barrel, then work the bore butter into the bore of the barrel, then later patch out the excess. With the Birchwood Casey Sheath on the sameclean barrel, I swabbed the bore clean with solvent. I patched it dry with a couple of dry patches and I swabbed the bore with a Sheath oiled patch and was done.

Perhaps it is the weather conditions of our areas that give you such excellent results, perhaps it is still my lack of application of the product that failed which is probably the case, or perhaps it was not in the stars for me to use bore butter. As in the past, I began to get at first minor tobacco stain patches out of the rifle, and then later even more intense tobacco stain patches. Seeing this, I did not wait for the accuracy to go south. I simply removed the bore butter and went back to my own known working proven method of barrel treatment.

The use of bore butter or what ever product in my rifle is not effected by petrolum products as I swab the barrel clean before I load anything. The only difference I can see is while I start my shooting on a clean dry barrel, you begin on a treated barrel. If I find it necessary to swab once or twice during my shooting session, it is a cross I have to bare.

Now the Hoppies BP Plus does sound like something I might be interested in looking further into. I will place that on my list of things to get to try. Although I do like the Birchwood Casey products, I am always looking for something better. I was not aware this was a patch lube. You use this then like I do the moosemilk?