ORIGINAL: slowpokebr549
Right on brothter, I am at a loss as to why all the BB hatred. I have used it for years and have had excellent results. I used to make my own beeswax and tallow mix, but BB is just so damn convenient. No rust, good accuracy, but then again all that goes down my barrels is patched or plain lead.
I clean ALL my bores with plain old boiling water (2-4 quarts depending on borte diameter), followed by enough clean,. dry patches to completely drry the bore. Then when it cools, I use Birchwood-Casey SHEATH for protection from rust before putting the guns away. You don't have to wipe the bore before loading up next time.
For lubricating my pure-lead, home-cast bullets, when loading th gun I put a Wonder Wad on top of the powder. (I believe these may, indeed, be lubed with something like Bore Butter-but it was applied sparingly-you can't see it!!).
This treatment goes for all my ML's, caplocks, flintlocks, and inlines. For a PRB, I use T/C prelubed patches-I think these also have some stuff like Bore Butter on them. But again, not a lot!
My rifles, using such loads,shoot like this:
These two groups, .45 & .50 cal. respectively, were both shot at 100 yards with sidelock percussion rifles using Maxi-Balls in both.....