My barrel prep for hunting is the same for caplocks, in-lines, and flintlocks. My guns are sighted in for hunting with a clean dry bore. So there's no fouling shot involved.
There's oil in the bore from the last cleaning that I want removed, and I want the flash hole, flame channel, and nipple oil free and dry. To get tha I wet a patch (very wet) with 91% Isopropyl alcohol and also squirt a bit down the bore. Then I pump the bore vigorously with the patch, forcing a mist of alcohol out of the nipple. I follow that with a dry patch or two, also pumping vigorously to move air through the nipple/flame channel. Then I load.
On some guns, I wipe the bore with a very light oil patch followed by a dry patch after the load is in the bore. On some guns I do not do that. It depends on what I've found the gun likes for first shot/clean barrel accuracy.
If I take a hunting shot and want to reload, I clean the bore with two or three alcohol patches. It's not perfectly clean, but close enough.
Last edited by Semisane; 08-18-2012 at 07:07 AM.