use rubbing alcohol on your patches.. It will cut the bore butter..

Brian

take the barrel off and run boiling water through the barrel it wil cut the wax build up.
Keep going till it comes out clean.
Don't grab the barrel with your hand though (how did I know that)

I have used TC Bore Butter for years and never had a problem with it. Mabey because I only used it after I cleaned my barrel. I'd run a patch of bore butter down the barrel then load it for the Hunt. If I shot, I cleaned the barrel with hot soappy water and reloaded again with the same procedure as above.
I also use a small amount of it on the breech plug threads and even coat the outside of the barrel with it, it seemed to protect it from rain and snow.
I guess if you use bore butter as a swab between shots and dont clean that often it would be a problem, but for me it never has been.
Last winter I changed to Montana X-Treme Bore Conditioner and their Gun Oil, not because I disliked Bore Butter but because I just wanted to try it out. So far no problems with it. Also when I used Bore Butter and after a Hot Water Clean my Barrels were always Shinny Clean with NO build up as others speak of. Whatever works for you is what you should use.
BP

I'd try a harsh solvent like Montana and a bronze bore brush. Just scrub the hell out of it until it comes clean.

I use it on all my 3 BP Rifles and also on my BP pistol. Never had a problem with it. Apply a small amount to a cotton brush and run it up and down the barrel several times.

What you use to clean your barrel depends on the powder you use. Triple Seven is an ascorbic acid-based powder, so the residue left in your barrel is water soluble. I have used it since it came out, warm water patches followed by dry ones and a lightly oiled one is all that is required. I have never had ANY corrosion in my barrels.

Pyrodex or BP is not as water soluble, which is why people add things to help get the fouling out. Pellets of all kinds also have some real BP on the base to help them ignite so even Triple Seven pellets may require cleaning like it's BP to get it all out.

BH209 seems to be a nitrocellulose-based powder like modern smokeless. So you use similar solvents.

I have used it for 3-4 years for my TC Omega, per the instructions on the CD that came with the rifle. Never had a problem. Shoot > wet patch > dry patch > reload and repeat. Then when finished and barrel is clean...run 1 or 2 bore butter patches through for storage. Remove BB with wet and dry patch and you are ready to shoot again. Rem oil, or any other high quality oil would be just fine, or even perhaps better. However, my barrel is clean as a whistle (no rust) and is very accurate with 2 50's and 250 SW. All I have done is follow directions per that CD. Has worked thus far and don't see any reason to complicate things.

i copied and pasted this from the internet [thought i'd share it with you ]


The snake oil "Bore Butter" concoctions of various animal fats and wax are better off left where they came from--the pot of rotting miscellaneous flesh and animal carcasses bubbling at your local rendering plant. The idea that your modern steel barrel can be seasoned like a cast iron skillet has no basis unless your barrel is also cast iron and you cook pizzas in it regularly. Some of the earlier lubricants were outstanding, like sperm whale oil. Bear grease and bacon drippings were never good, but when that's all you have, that's the best you can do.

I never thought about cooking a pizza inside the barrel...hmmm