209 primer fouling cleaner

[archeryrob]

What is a simpler cleaner you all are using on getting the primer residue out. The barrel is easier to clean with many patches and a brush, but the carbon from the 209 primers doesn't seem to budge with much. It has built up from a few times shooting and I let it go. So I figure it will affect shooting and I am trying to find something better.

So I tried regular cleaners and nothing worked. I remembered fro Spray Nine in the garage and soaking it in that an hour takes some but not all. Are their any simple cleaners to dissolve this stuff?

I like the inline and having scope for longer shots, but cleaning my hawken makes life so much easier.

[NSB]

That primer residue you're referring to isn't all primer residue. The powder is burning back into the breech plug and leaving most of it. Here's a good read on the subject https://www.blackhorn209.com/specs/breech-plug-cleaning/
Another good option for the solvent to use is https://www.traditionsfirearms.com/product/blackout-209-breech-plug-small-parts-cleaner

[megasupermagnum]

To clean the flash channel, not the tiny hole, I just turn a drill bit by hand. I think mine is an 1/8". The powder chamber I just stuff a damp patch in and turn it by hand. This is all it takes to clean mine. For blackpowder I use water. For substitutes I use Hoppe's #9. I mostly shoot blackpowder, but do shoot Blackhorn 209 from time to time.

[Theditchman]

I have a thompson hawken and after I fire about 8 209 primers in it I cant get them out without a lot of force...I just use an ear swab with bore cleaner on it..that does the trick