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Old 09-09-2004 | 02:48 PM
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Default RE: Rookie Muzzleloader question-frustrated !!

Mix yourself some 50% isopropyl alcohol and 50% windex or windsheild washer fluid as your bore swabbing compound. Then buy a pack or two of cheap patches (or cut up some old cotton socks if you have some around). Wal Mart sells cheap patches. There are also some pre-cut patches. In fact our Wal Mart has been selling some pre-cut pre-soaked Rusty Duck Black Off patches. Rusty Duck solvent really pulls fowling out of the barrel, but the homemade stuff will do the same.

Since you are shooting Triple Se7en pellets, pure water will work as a swabbing solution. The reason I use the other mixture is because of the alcohol, it tends to dry itself faster in the barrel.

Before you load your rifle, wet a patch and using your cleaning rod tip, work that patch up and down the barrel in short distances, getting longer and longer until you have reached all the way to the breech. Pull that patch out and turn it over and work it through the barrel again. Then a dry patch. Now load and shoot your rifle.

This is when you need to repeat the procedure of swabbing the barrel as you did before before you load your next shot. After done swabbing then load the second shot.

The one thing that bothers me is a powerbelt is a kind of slip fit projectile. This means they load really easy, even in a dirty bore. I am sure you have cleaned the rifle of all oils and grease before the first loading, so there has to be a reason for the excessive fowling buildup. The powder your shooting is not excessive and should not be fowling out the rifle. I have shot up to five loads without fowling.

Be sure and get yourself a good strong range rod for work on the range. Some of those that come with the rifle are a little on the small size. Although I feel they should be strong enough to do the job, after all your going to take them into the woods....
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