oldwun

I am a tape user, have been for several years now. I do not use any grease at all. I prefer the grease because there is no mess or fus with cleaning the grease from the threads. I also have no worrys about possibly contaminating part of the powder with grease.

If you use tape is is important how you wrap, where you wrap,and how it fits in your gun. When you put the BP in if you feel the tape dragging or balling up then take it back out and re-wrap. There basically is three differnt colors of tape the color indicate thickness, white being the thinnest, pink in the middle, and yellow fairly thick. I use both the pink and the white - pink on some guns and white on others... The key for me is to overwrap the nose of the BP - pat the tape down on the face of the BP - when you install it install it snug - NOT TIGHT but snug, squeezing the tape on the face up against the flange in the barrel... ifyou stop the blowback at the face of the BP then you do not have to worry about the threads of the BP... the new TC breech plugs are working on the same principleonly using an "O" ring instead of tape.

To clean the bP barrel threadsyou simply push in a fiber brush, twist it and pull it back out...