liquidorange... there are two camps here. There are those that will tell you they have used it for years, and bore butter will protect the barrel and make your shooting experience wonderful. Then there are those that will warn you you're not doing anything to protect your rife if you use bore butter to protect the barrel.

I used to be a bore butter user, but had some bad experiences using it. Maybe I did use it wrong. Who knows. I used it according to directions and all I got was poor accuracy and rust in the bore.

Bore butter is a great conical lube and works alright as a patch lube for roundball. Other then that I have little use for the stuff. T/C tells you to clean your rifle with only hot water and re-season with bore butter. They also sell bore butter. What you think?

If all you have been using is bore butter, try something. Take a bore brush, dunk it in solvent. Now run that brush 15 strokes in the barrel. Then run a couple solvent patches and see what you got. The condition of the patches might change your mind about using only bore butter to protect your rifle.

I water bath my sidelocks, then I take and run solvent patches. Then brush the barrel. A few more solvent patches and some dry patches. I then run a alcohol patch through the barrel to make sure it is good and dry. After is has sat a while, I swab the barrel with a quality gun oil. I use REM OIL, Birchwood Casey Sheath, or Breakfree CLP. When I want to shoot the next time I take a patch with isopropyl or denatured alcohol on it, and swab all the oil out of the barrel. Then a few dry patches, and load as normal and shoot.

So in my opinion (and I stress this is my opinion) I would not use the bore butter. I would trust my rifle to a quality gun oil.