Originally Posted by sabotloader

I am not sure that i can give you a great answer... but years ago I did use bore butter in a hot barrel... I just stumbled on it one evening, but I noticed the next time that I shoot the gun with T7 the crud ring was significantly less. The more I used it the more the ring diminished so I continued using the BB for several years in all of my different ML's. I even used it as a storage lube and never had a problem. The next thing I did was to start treating my shotgun chokes (trap shooting) with the hot BB treatment. I would drop the chokes in a pan of boiling water to heat them - then dry them and while treat them with BB. It significantly reduced the plastic fouling in the chokes also.... and again as the metal cools in both the barrels and the chokes - you get as much back out with dry patches as you can.

Somewhere along the line I found T17 and Slip 2000 bore oil, and then the Montanna Xtreme Bore Conditioner. I feel a lot more comfortable about bore protection with a bore oil in the bore than a water soluable BB or T17, for me their only function is to help reduce fouling.



And I am not taking it that way at all...



We all develope our own methods after awhile and we all make our own adjustments and you will too. No big deal... A lot of folks condem BB/T17 and have never tried it but it has a bad rap so it must be bad. There are those that apply it in a manner that will run in to problems down the line if it is allowed to build up or cake in the barrel - I do not believe it should ever be used as a grease.

If you have a shotgun that is choked and you have cleaned the choke... here is a test for you liberally coat the inside of the choke with BB/T17/wonder lube 1000 and walk away from it for a few days... When you come back and run a clean white patch through the choke it will come out with a tobacco looking stain on it... The BB/T17 over time leached that old powder-plastic residue out of the pores and small imperfection in the choke that you did not get cleaning the conventional way.



This is a long read but it is really old - I write up that i did probably 10/15 years ago. My method (right or wrong) of properly applying BB to a bore...

And of course today I do and have modified this as I describe earlier in the thread.... T17 patches and or Wonder Lube 1000 Blue Patches make this a much easier and more uniform application.