I use Birchwood Casey No. 77 Black Powder Solvent. Don't do the hot water thing much anymore. I still use TC Bore Butter too even though it seems to have fallen out of favor with the flintlock hipsters!

 

Do you really soak the patches or how do you get the powder pocket all cleaned out in the breech?

 

My longrifle doesn't have a patent breech. On my TCs, I use a rifle cleaning rod with a patch that fits down in the channel.

 

Remove the lock and spray down with windex. Toothpick in touch, then spray windex down the barrel, about a dozen squirts. Tooth brush the lock and blow dry with compressed air, then soak down with rem oil and set aside. Rotate rifle up and down and dump out windex. Run patches through until clean and blow out with air. Wipe any residue from touch hole area and oil. Run rem oil soaked patch up and down barrel. Blow excess oil off lock then replace on rifle. Done!

 

Windex (with vinegar) til patches are clean, dry with heat gun on low setting, then a smidge/thin layer of ballistol.

 

Toothpick in flash hole,and water with a little dawn dish soap in barrel.
clean barrel with dry patches,and run a oiled patch down the barrel,
turn upside down close to the wood stove to dry.
clean the lock with a toothbrush and very little oil.

 

I follow the manufacture recommendations, TC and green mountain both recommended hot soapy water, ( no detergent) swab out good, dry, then oil. Green mountain also recommend going back a few days later to run a patch thru again to get and fouling that leached out of the pores. I have TC barrels from the late 70’s that still look like new.

 

I use equal parts of Murphy’s oil soap 91% rubbing alcohol and peroxide. Followed by by break free clp

 

I’m old school and still use hot water with a couple of drops of dawn soap followed by dry patches but I also have a Renegade so it’s just a matter of pulling the pin to remove the barrel from the stock

 

I’ve had pretty good luck with Hoppe’s Blackpowder cleaner and then spray every down with Barricade.

 

This is old but lots of good info on products and corrosion..


https://forums.outdoorsdirectory.com/threads/results-of-gun-care-product-evaluation.139238/

 

Anymore, I just plug the touch hole with a toothpick and pour hot water down the bore. Hold a rag over the muzzle, and slosh the gun back and forth. Dump the water out and repeat a few times, then use wet patches to get out any residue. Dry the bore with an old hair dryer, then run an oil dampened patch down the bore to protect against rust. Then I remove the lock, remove the flint and leather and use a nylon brush dipped in the same hot water to clean everything off, then reassemble. I've got the process down to probably 15 minutes. I used to take an hour and was very anal about cleaning, not any more, realized that was just a waste of time.

 

Boil water in teapot. Poor down bore, flash liner removed, breech end in bucket. Then use a patched jag to pull water back up and down bore. Dry on gas/wood stove. Treat bore with melted bore butter followed by clean patch.
lock, liner all go into the hot water scrubbed with old toothbrush, then dry on heat.
Never used soap or windex, not needed. Water dissolves salt, boiling water even faster.
All my barrels look like new.

 

Thanks all for the input, I have been doing the hot water and dawn operation on my tc guns either in the sink or a bucket. It has worked well for cleaning, but is time consuming and am looking for a quicker method if I shoot the gun once or so and will be using it again in the near future that I do not need to fully disassemble and take the time needed for the hot water process.

 

1/3 Murphy oil soap, 1/3 rubbing alcohol, 1/3 hot hot water in a deep plastic tub. Put breech of barrel down in tub and slosh patches up and down barrel. Sit barrel with muzzle end down on floor to dry overnight. Then run blackhorn bore conditioner down through barrel when storing. I run a dry patch through before shooting next to ensure no oil left in barrel.

 

I tried the Ballistol process with hot water and it was a lot less effort. I will run a patch in a day or two after cleaning to check for any fouling left in barrel.

 

I run a bore brush down the barrel first and the use the hot water method. Should I not be brushing the barrel?

 

I use the ez clean attachment and hot water in a bucket. Create a siphon with patches. When patches are clean, blow out water. Run clean dry patches down until they come out clean. I then run a patch down with wonder lube on it. Lock gets warm water treatment then blown out with compressor. Spritz with light oil and spread out with compressor. Wipe excess off. Leave lock off for a few days to make sure everything is dry.

 

I once seen a video where a guy took the barrel off his TC put in a commode cleaned it and flushed the dirty water away.

 

No thanks. Cleaning in a bucket, and dumping it in the laundry sink also takes it away, without all the germs.

 

bought a can of gun scrubber recently with the straw. I dont know how I ever lived without it's the best thing in the world for semiloading guns. just hold gun upside down and blast it for a quick clean in the mechanical areas so you don't need to disassemble anything does a 90 percent job at least it's sweet.