Now that I have to clean the BP from my bore and cases, two questions:
For the cases, is a tumbler or sonic cleaner really necessary? Will a soak in soapy water with vinegar and then a brushing do the trick?
For the bore, how about soapy water on patches then dry patch then a coat of oil? I haven't been able to find any ballistol locally, so I can't do the 1:10 ballistol water mix I've seen recommended.
Here's a picture of my shooting for today. 15 rounds. One of the flyers is a fowler, one of the other terrible flyers is just a bad pulled shot, and some of the others that widen out the group were later in the session, and I think there was a little bit of leading starting. I'm not sure if this is due to the hardness of the bullet, or the way some of my rounds were loaded. The cartridges later in the session definitely shaved bits of the lead off when seating the bullet, so I'm wondering if the shade lead inside the case got deposited in the bore. Don't know, but we'll see how much leading is in the barrel when I clean it out.
And yes these shots were at 50 yards. Might be a whole lot better if I wasn't using a regular buckhorn
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