HuntingNet.com Forums - View Single Post - is bore butter necessary?
View Single Post
Old 10-08-2008 | 09:33 AM
  #18  
arcticap's Avatar
arcticap
Typical Buck
 
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 766
Likes: 0
From: Central Connecticut
Default RE: is bore butter necessary?

ORIGINAL: bigmossy
I'm on the fence on this one. Could someone explain in more detail about "seasoning" of a barrel and how bore butter can help or hurt with it ???
There's really not any benefit or need to season modern steel with Bore Butter. That's a notionlinked toold wroughtiron barrels.
I've heardoffolks treating their bore with synthetic motor oil toofor better accuracyand they claim thatitabsorbs into the pores of the steel and lasts for a number of shotsmuch like a Slick 50 enginetreatment. Hmmmm.....
But TC actuallyrecommends againstusing Bore Butter when shootingsabots. When asked, they've clearlysaidthat a cleanbore shoots sabotsthe best, yetsome folks use it anyway.
Since the boreneeds to be thoroughly cleaned after shooting there's no seasoning effect tobegainedby using it.
I think that it'ssimply a handy BP patchlube withmultiple uses, but oflimited benefit.
arcticap is offline  
Reply