I swab the bore with Black Off - Rusty Duck when I am about to clean the barrel for good. It is red in color. The stuff really pulls the fowling out of a barrel. I was lucky this year, Wal Mart was selling their end of clearance sale stuff and had five pints of it for a fraction of what they were normally selling the stuff so I took all of it...

I have never shot A.A.P. FFFg powder. I have shot Clean Shot in FFg. The difference I can see between Clean Shot and Pinnacle is of course the color. Clean Shot is gray where this stuff is jet black. I was shooting Pinncale 3f and it seemed to have excellent power but there was no chronograph so as for power relation to other powders, I have no idea.

Whether you should change over... I would hate to say. I would suggest you get a pound of the Pinnacle 3f and shoot it for yourself. It was a real surprise for me. I kind of like the stuff because of the ability to load sabot after sabot without swabbing. When I shoot Goex Black Powder, because of the fowling, you have to swab in there. I do not know how the A.A.P. is like that. Maybe I should pick up a pound of that. That is the one powder they do sell in the area ......