Cabin fever is killing me. I just received a jar of JB Bore paste from Brownell's and decided to give the Kodiak Pro a treatement. I did 10 strokes per each patch and repeated this 10 times. One think I noticed was that the patches were a dark grey by the second stroke, like it takes a very fine amount of metal with each stroke. Is this right?

The bore is very shiny and smooth and I can't wait to take her to the range. Is this pretty much the treatment one should do on a bore which is new?

What one of these did you use? I think I am going to try it with both of my muzzleloaders.

I got the J-BNon-embedding BoreCleaning Compound. It comes in a 2 oz white container and sells for $9.00 at http://Brownells.com. It was around $14with shipping.

Pglasgow, That is a very fine grinding compoud, good if you need to lapp: I use it when needed but I use Jewlers
Rouge which polishes rather than cutting . They both remove some metal the differance is the Jewlers Rouge re moves less and leaves a very slick finish which I believe makes for easy loading and cleaning with Muzzle Loaders. Lee

Where does a guy get jewelers rouge? As I recollect, rouge is a red block of fine pumice or similar material? So if I use it do I use a bore mop to polish with it. How should the rouge be used?

Phil, the JB will turn black with friction (and it will also make brass/bronze bristles turn black). I don't know what your goal was - whether just a good cleaning or you were attempting to lap rough spots from the new barrel - but you succeeded in giving the bore a good cleaning. To try to lap out rough spots would require many more strokes made fast, long, and smoothly. 200 such stokes would probably gain you something in that regard but I would go no further than you already have with a new barrel - the thing may shoot great now.

You know to get any sort of lapping with JB's takes like 300 strokes. Its very fine. And turning black, you can do that with your fingers rubbing together with a blob in your hand. Not really metal coming out.

I was just trying to get a good polish on the bore, i guess. Really, I don't know what I am doing at all on this but I've read some positive comments on doing this in the beginning to speed up breaking in the bore. After your comments I decided to run a cotton ball through the bore. There was only one snag about a 1/3 the way down from the muzzle which seems pretty good to me.

I did stroke the compound pretty much in a steady in motion all the way down, then all the way out each time. I might have done it more slowly than I should have, I used a T-handle with the ramrod.The boreseems pretty smooth and I'm looking forward to checking to see if some ballets take out that snag. We just are notthawed out completely and the range is still closed. Thanks for the input. If the ballets don't take that last burr out, should I go after that last spot as you described? How many conicals should I shoot before considering additional treatment?

Thanks

I always though 500 strokes was recommended? Be careful around the muzzle. I thought removing some metal was the reason for lapping, along with polishing. I know the ones I have done appear very bright when a bore light is used. Go to their web site for good instructions. Tom.

i thought the jb bore paste was made from material that wont embed into the metal. i wonder about the jewlers rouge. they sell that paste in the dremel section of the super hardware stores.