1. Do you unload every night? If so, and you're using loose, how do you go about unloading? The easy way is as you walk out of the woods shoot it off somewhere. A stump, dirt mound, what ever. If you can't do that bring it home, spread news paper on the floor and remove the breech plug. Then tilt the rifle back and with a long ramrod, push the powder and projectile out. Some push them back through the muzzle, others push them out the breech end. Just do not use that projectile the next day. The news paper will catch the powder and you can save that in a bottle or something and shoot it off on the range. But after you have the rifle empty, clean the threads like you normally would. With a dry patch, patch the barrel clean and dry. Then, Re-grease the breech plug, and install it again.

If it is a traditional rifle you can use a bullet puller and pull the charge. Then dump the powder. Swab the bore clean. Dry patch it. Oil if if you like. And wait until the next day to load it.

Or you can do a full cleaning job whether it is an inline or traditional and load fresh. I personally unload every night.


2. If you don't unload and you have popped a primer to dry out the plug, do you consider the primer charge necessary of cleaning down to the load? I fired the round off every night to clean since I had fired the primer and was concerned with it rusting. I don't consider the primer charge as something to be concerned about as far as rusting. I have had bad luck leaving the charge in the rifle. Others on this board have no concerns what so ever by doing this..