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#From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (steve hix)
#Subject: Re: Cleaning freq. of a muzzle loader in the old days
#Date: 12 Jan 93 03:10:02 GMT
#In article <bakc.271.726737113@giraffe.ru.ac.za> bakc@giraffe.ru.ac.za (MR KR COMAN) writes:
#There is some evidence that serious bore fouling may be more related to
#the composition of lubricant than to blackpowder per se.
#
#Apparently, petroleum in the lube is a no no.

	Interesting.  My brother uses a homemade beeswax concoction to grease
the patches for the Hawken -- spirit of orginality, I understand!

#
#An outfit named Ox-Yoke have come out with a lubricant that they claim
#allows essentially an umlimited number of shots before cleaning the
#bore becomes necessary.  Some other blackpowder suppliers offer the
#same stuff under their own names.

	Right! Ox-Yoke sounds like the stuff he uses for the Minie bullets 
in the Enfield.

#
#Some 19th-century publications hint that different makers' blackpowders
#might have an effect on fouling rates, but it's a little hard to test out
#these allegations since most of the mentioned companies aren't around now,
#and out here we mostly have a choice between Goex blackpowder and Pyrodex
#which isn't blackpowder.

	Right!  The crap we get in this country under the name "black powder"
is not really made for firearms: it is in fact commercial blasting gunpowder
albeit of a fine grade.  Burn rates are very inconsistent and fouling might 
thus be more serious than is the case with purposely formulated shooting 
powder.   Still, maybe what we get is on a par with what was dished out to 
the troops 150 years ago??!!

#Oh, yeah:  while your gun's bore might not be fouled badly enough to
#require cleaning so you can shoot again, corrosion might be doing it more
#harm.  Clean it anyway when you're done for the day.

	Absolutely!  The old cleaning rod and bucket of boiling water are 
mandatory after a day on the range.

Cheers,
Keith Coman
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