BP in cartrige guns - how 'dirty'?

[AJMD429]

I don't care for all the cleaning needed to avoid rust after every time I shoot a muzzleloader (except my ML-10! ), but was wondering how much issue there is with CARTRIDGE guns and black powder. It seems like there would be no blowback, so the only cleaning would be the barrel. Is that the case?

[J Miller]

I don't care for all the cleaning needed to avoid rust after every time I shoot a muzzleloader (except my ML-10! ), but was wondering how much issue there is with CARTRIDGE guns and black powder. It seems like there would be no blowback, so the only cleaning would be the barrel. Is that the case?

If you're shooting a rifle and you do get a good seal from the case, then yes the fouling is pretty much contained in the barrel. But you'll have some on the muzzle and front of the magazine too.
If you don't get a good seal from the cartridge case .......... OH YUCK, that stuff gets everywhere.

Shooting a revolver is however a different story. It gets everywhere no matter what you do with it.

Joe

[Old Time Hunter]

A couple of patches of "citrus" pads, one dry patch, and one w/butter bore....put it away!

[Old Time Hunter]

Shooting a revolver is however a different story. It gets everywhere no matter what you do with it.

Joe

That's why I take the handle off and stick the revolver in my wife's dishwasher...comes out cleaner than clean.

[J Miller]

Shooting a revolver is however a different story. It gets everywhere no matter what you do with it.

Joe

That's why I take the handle off and stick the revolver in my wife's dishwasher...comes out cleaner than clean.

L L, My wife IS the dishwasher and she makes me clean my own. And I'm getting lazy. I don't even want to clean them when I shoot smokeless, let alone bp.

Joe

[Don McDowell]

I don't care for all the cleaning needed to avoid rust after every time I shoot a muzzleloader (except my ML-10! ), but was wondering how much issue there is with CARTRIDGE guns and black powder. It seems like there would be no blowback, so the only cleaning would be the barrel. Is that the case?

You need to clean the cases, that's a simple enough thing to do,albiet a bit time consuming, just deprime, drop them into a jug of some sort of soap and water, sloshem around a bit, risnse them clean let em dry and run them thru the tumbler.
If you shoot a lot of bp in the cartridge guns then it doesn't hurt now and again to break them clear down and give a thorough cleaning once in a while,but that isn't something that's needed on a regular basis.

[6pt-sika]

I don't care for all the cleaning needed to avoid rust after every time I shoot a muzzleloader (except my ML-10! ), but was wondering how much issue there is with CARTRIDGE guns and black powder. It seems like there would be no blowback, so the only cleaning would be the barrel. Is that the case?

My ML-10 sat in my cleaning vice in my loading room for mid november until last friday waiting to be cleaned ! Once cleaned it looked like new again ! Man I love VV N-110 .

As to my Knight Disc rifles I have no problem cleaning them up either as I only shoot Triple 7 in them .

I used to shoot Pyrodex in a Ruger Old Army and as previousely mentioned it was an *** to get cleaned !

Now here recently I have been working with a Remington Hepburn in 40-70SS and loading it with REAL BP . And the clean up for this thing is nowhere near as bad as I expected . Sure it takes a bit longer then smokeless powder rifle , but it still isn't bad either

[Griff]

I don't understand. Has BP changed over the last 170-180 years? I use a little hot, soapy water to rinse out the fouling of chambers and the barrels of long guns; a couple of dry patches (til they come out dry), then lastly a light oiling. For the revolvers I scrub out the crud that collects in-between the barrel & topstrap, hot soapy water on the cylinders (inside & out) and down the barrel; finish up with a few dry patches as with the long guns and a light oiling. And then like Don said:

You need to clean the cases, that's a simple enough thing to do,albiet a bit time consuming, just deprime, drop them into a jug of some sort of soap and water, sloshem around a bit, risnse them clean let em dry and run them thru the tumbler.
If you shoot a lot of bp in the cartridge guns then it doesn't hurt now and again to break them clear down and give a thorough cleaning once in a while,but that isn't something that's needed on a regular basis.