cleaning during hunting season

[indian joe]

Just think about how many old guns are found loaded, well after the owner passed away & the family then divested themselves of it.


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Your point is................?

[AntiqueSledMan]

Hello RU Shooter,

I guess that would depend, most of my hunting is/or has been on weekends.
So if I were to take a shot on Saturday, I'd probably wait until Sunday night to fire it off again for cleaning.
But if I were on a week long hunt, I'd probably shoot it off & clean it that night. Even though I'm shooting Triple Seven.
Right or wrong, that's how I would or have handled the situation.

AntiqueSledMan.

[MostlyLeverGuns]

Get the charge out -shoot, CO2, ball puller - then clean.

[cas]

Your point is................?

Don't leave your gun loaded, you could die.

I'm not saying to not use a CO2 discharger, but using one on a regular basis seems like it is asking for problems to me.

How so? It's a whole lot easier on your gun than firing and cleaning it.

[onelight]

I always had a range rod in camp and pulled with a screw puller , if I needed to pull .
If I took a deer or small game and reloaded I would fire it out at camp and clean.
The CO 2 puller sounds easier if it had not been fired to put in a fresh load or to head home.

[Edward]

Attachment 275184Attachment 275185 After 6 days in snow-rain and cold ,end of season following day cold/sunny unloaded 80 grains BH 209/50 cal GM 1-66 /495 ball patched with bear oil lubed.015 denim over a 54 cal felt wad 90 yds ranged at our short range , the TC custom shop Buckeye special killed 2 deer this year a 6pt 45 yds/a fat doe @96yds and this target day after the season ended . The target was killed 6 days after the doe died and then cleaned .ch deer kill gun was cleaned and then reloaded .The only modification was blue tape over muzzle and cci 209 in a Mag Spark adapter weather proof all season and BH 209 is not happy with cold/moisture in anything sidelock with out the 209 primer /works well with real BP too!/Ed

[509thsfs]

Ya shoot it, Ya clean it. But hey, it's your barrel

[RU shooter]

Before I Went and fired it off after work I ran a patch down the bore just a slight amount of red brown on the patch with the normal fouling color it cleaned it up fine after firing . Thanks all .

[indian joe]

It needed to be cleaned anyway. Seems like a waste of time to me to blow it out. I'm not saying to not use a CO2 discharger, but using one on a regular basis seems like it is asking for problems to me.

hmmmmm If he lives in town he can do the blowout in his basement or garage - would need a pretty good washout to get all the remnant powder out though.

[cas]

After 6 days in snow-rain and cold ,end of season following day cold/sunny...

But relevant to the OP, did you have fouling rusting your bore for two weeks?

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When I use the c02 discharger after a day of hunting, I just run a brush or a dry patch down the bore. It's not anything close to "cleaning" a fired muzzle loader.

[Edward]

In a word (NOPE)

[725]

No question. Shoot it & clean it. Rust starts right away and although it may start slow, it starts.

[slumlord44]

I always left mine loaded if I hadn't fired it. If I fired it I cleaned it. I'd tie a tag to the gun with loaded written in red sharpie just in case I should drop over dead unexpectedly.
Had a friend bring me a double barrel shotgun that was his grandfathers once that he wanted me to clean up enough to hang on the wall. It had sat in a damp basement for many years. I explained to him that it might be loaded. He had played with it as a kid. Of course both barrels were loaded! Had a lot of fun getting the loads out. The shot was corroded into one big lump.

[fiberoptik]

I picked up 2 used CVA’s cheap. Got both home and went to work on them. Both loaded! One was actually double loaded! I really went through hell getting out 2 sets of powder and patched balls. Good thing it was in the inline & not a sidelock!
Better thing I didn’t drop a cap off on it in my basement!

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