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This video will be useful for the newbies of the black powder shoooting World. Quick and easy guide for how to properly clean your blackpowder shotgun and long arm in a few minutes.
its a lot of work looking after these old shooters so glad they found a good home in hungary 😆👍 great video as always
I like to add just a little dawn dishwashing detergent in my hot water bath. Then rinse, but other than that, lovey video! Thanks for sharing
I use a q tip to clean inside of the hammer
Man your voice and accent is amazingly hypnotic. In a good way.
The only thing I do different is after cleaning the bores, I flush them with boiling water from a kettle. This helps dry the barrel and washes the last little bit of carbon out. Other than that, same process my father taught me, which his father taught him, which his father taught him... Thank you again for another great video.
i was going to suggest the same thing, but you beat me to iy.
You run the risk of creating flash rust when you use boiling water
Boiling water is great but you have to reclean with cold water.
This is one of my favorite channels
I started shooting BP rifles and fusils seriously two days ago and this video is three days old. Oddly convenient, but thank you from Louisiana.
I am always saddened by people who stay away from black powder guns because they think it is a huge long chore to clean. 5 min with some plain water is more than enough to remove fowling then it is simply a quick oiling.
Agree!
I'm going to reload shells with black powder substitutes and wash my double hammer 1873 Bonehill 12ga the same way. This may become a way of shooting life in America! #MAGA!
My favorite piece of kit for all of my guns is a silicon cloth that I use to give the whole gun a wipe down as it is lightly permeated with oil and it really brings out the beauty of the wood even on guns that aren't usually considered "beauty" pieces like my old M48 Yugo Mauser.
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So I have had varying degrees of success cleaning my cap and ball rifles so I dried out your method yesterday using a wet patch to seal the rifling and create the water pump effect that you did. This was total genius. I was able to fully clean two rifles start to finish in 45 minutes. The actual wet cleaning part only took 15 minutes or less! This is a game changer for me as it took almost no time at all. I also used a hair dryer blowing down the barrel to help dry more quickly and heat up the barrel so it will allow the lubrication to penetrate the steel better at the end as well. Looking forward to how this works out! Thank you
Excellent tutorial. Cleaning is a Zen-like extension of the shooting of a muzzle loading shotgun
Greetings from Poland and thank you for this video! I've just cleaned my Howdah Hunter with your method and now both barrels are clean.
My first time shooting a muzzleloader I listened to this guy down at the gun shop. I was 14 at the time and filled the bathtub with hot soapy water and scrubber the heck out of the bore. Then Mom came home halfway through....I will never do that again. Ever. Later I got my Dad into deer hunting with a muzzleloader. He is much wiser then I was. He had a bucket of hot water out in his shed. Live and learn.
I tried your method on my 20 gauge Pedersoli percussion shotgun. It really cleaned it. Like you said, the barrel got so hot I had to wear leather gloves to avoid getting burned. :-)
Thanks for putting up this video. Anything that lessens the chore of cleaning these guns is appreciated!
Great video, it is always good to watch someone else cleaning guns, it is reassuring that I too am doing it correctly. Shotguns are a lot easier than BP revolvers but I still enjoy cleaning them. It's all part of the hobby.
I used to work at fort niagara, and we had ALWAYS alot of cleaning. I hooked up a hose to a hot water laundry faucet and attached a spray nozzle, very efficient to clean barrels
Ah a perfect Sunday, wonderful video
I just received the cartridge boxes and the cartridge formers. Great products, thank you.
Great video as always. I still love my cartridge formers.
Excellent video of a VERY controversial topic. Over the years we've seen lots of people with different ideas on what to do and how to do it to clean muzzle loaders. We kept is simple and this is almost how we do it too. The minor differences are, after putting the nipples in the same water I clean the bore with I put them in a cast iron pan on the stove in order to dry the inside of the touch hole. I also pour boiling water down the bore after cleaning in order to heat the barrels so they can dry more effectively. Easier to coat with oil too, especially with bore butter. BTW, in order to save my hand from the hot water I use a silicone oven mitt. Works great, protects and gives good grip. :-)
You just made my Sunday! Thank you for the wonderful videos!
I love it when people take care of their things
Beautiful weapon - and well presented as always. I wonder if the maker and the original buyer could have guessed it would still be in use so many years later?
Thank you as always for this kind video.
I do a similar method cleaning my original 1863 Springfield after matches but I leave my nipple in unless the gun won't be shot for the near future. If I can access hot water, I place a piece of rubber from a bikes inner tube folded over a time or two placed on my nipple with the hammer gently lowered over it. I then take a large rag or towel folder over many times and using water that is just below boiling in a campfire coffee pot and fill the bore with the water. I let it set for about 5 minutes and then pour it out and repeat. After 2 or 3 times of letting it sit with the water in the bore, I then begin to simply fill the bore leaving about 2 or 3 inches of air space and place the rag with my thumb over it and turn the barrel up side down until I jhear the bubble get to the breech and the flip it back right. I do this 2 or 3 times then pour the water out. I continue doing that until I either run out of, now luke warm water, or the water from the bore is clear. I find it often depends on how many shots I have fired that day for how fast the water runs clear. I then attack it with first a couple of drying patches followed by balistol soaked patches alternating soaked patches with drying patches until the drying patches come out looking clean and then oil the bore as you do but I use Remoil or 3in1 oil for the bore and then clean the outside the same as you do but if I will be shooting the musket again in the next day or so, I will not pull the nipple, just spray Remoil through it with the barrel pointed down followed by a folded clean patch held on the nipple with the hammer lowered easily over it. I have found that with rifles, the Balistol patches are needed to remove any lead fowling that has accumulated whereas with smoothbores, only 1 is needed to help disolve any fowling the hot water didn't get. I also mix my balistol somewhere around 60/40 to 50/50 water/Balistol. Before I found balistol, I had used Moose Milk from the Winchester Sutler but since Tom and Alice closed their sutlery down, I swapped to Balsitol. After a weekend of shooting, I will delve down into pulling my nipple, bolster screw, and lock, and cleaning any fowling that has made its way down and then slather them in a good healthy layer of RIG ( Rust Inhibiting Grease) and then make sure the entire arm is oiled and protected. I also store my gun with a sight protector and a wood tompion that has the wood heavily soaked in oil after I have sprayed a good bit of oil down the bore. I find with the folded patch over the nipple and the tompion in place, oil doesn't leak out. I have found this is neccesary here in the Deep South with our humidity, if the metal isn't almost dripping with oil, the metal will develop some rusting even if it is otherwise properly protected. When I lived in AZ, I never had any of those issues, but do here in GA.
A friend of mine showed me to use a coffee maker for hot water for cleaning my gun. It's fast and works very well.
I use a round toothpick to clean the hole in the nipple carefully does a great job
I've never been that into blackpowder guns because of how dirty they get. But I like your process of cleaning.
Have you ever added a little dawn dish soap works very very well in cleaning !!
That's a beautiful gun. Worth nurturing!
Good video on maintenance of muzzle loaders
Similar to my method. 1: Use 1/2 cup Simple Green to 1-gallon hot water, it will remove all fouling without harming the finish. 2: wrap a 2-inch square patch over and around my bronze bore brush. This will act as a pump and draw the water/cleaner up the bore to greatly aid in cleaning as it foams up. 3: I use Ballistol, a mineral oil-based chemical on all surfaces, it will lubricate, and protect metal and preserves the wood. were as petroleum products can damage the wood over time. 4: I use Loctite Silver Anti-Seize on the nipples, (it's what I have). and bobs your uncle. ^~^
After I just had to take the drive from the range to the house to get my firing pin worn out where corroded from black powder I have a modern inline black powder musket and the firing pin was all covered in rust just from going from the range to the house
Great as always. I always enjoy your videos
That's pretty much exactly how I do my shotgun and rifle. The only difference is I have been using beeswax/tallow lube to grease the nipples before re-assembly. I haven't had a stuck nipple yet but it's early days!
Awesome! Much appreciated!
Thats pretty much exactly how I do my cleaning since I got into Black Powder shooting, never failed me ;) One difference though: I use only warm instead of hot water and put a little dish soap in it, that way the barrels dont get that hot, but you have the same result.
I have many friends who use dish soap fro cleaning. Did you ever feel any diffrence compared to clean water?
@@capandball Dish soap gets the fats and oils out better than plain water. Do you not worry about flash rust when you use very hot water? We are taught to us cold water.
Thanks for putting up this video
Bin immer wieder begeistert von Deinen Videos
A few days ago I bought a Mauser DWM 7.65 - 1889 and this information is very useful to me. Thank you. Hace unos días compré un Mauser DWM 7.65 - 1889 y esta información me resulta muy útil. Muchas gracias.
Nice job well done
First use a Container with cold water and wipe the fouling out of the Barrels by using a Nylon brush followed by wet! patches. Now change to the Container with hot water. Use only wet patches and pump the hot water through your Barrels. The water will never get as black as yours. Change your patches as long as they come out black. If possible use compressed air and blow your barrel dry. Brass or Bronce brushes are not necessary if choosing this method.
Absolutely wonderful video. I wonder could you do a video on Hungarian gun laws?
Thanks for tutorial
Great video!
THANK YOU, this video is extremely helpful. I've recently gotten into shooting black powder and I've quickly come to realize just how filthy and tedious it can get, though it's definitely part of the experience. Can you perhaps do a video on cleaning Remington percussion revolvers and their replicas? My Uberti New Model Army is my favorite BP firearm to shoot but my least favorite to clean.
Let me run you through the process: 1. Remove cylinder, cylinder pin, and loading lever. 2. Remove nipples from cylinder. 3. Run a patch soaked in cleaning solution (I use Simple Green) through each chamber of the cylinder. 4. Put cylinder to soak in a dilute solution of cleaner. 5. Brush nipples clean, put them into the solution. 6. Brush cylinder window clean with an old toothbrush. 7. Clean out barrel with patches soaked in cleaning solution. 8. Rinse out barrel from breech end. 9. Wipe accessible part of hammer and frame clean. 10. Dry barrel and frame. 11. Oil barrel and frame. Run an oiled patch down the bore. Spray oil into lockwork. 12. Remove cylinder, run a patch with cleaning solution through chambers. 13. Rinse cylinder and dry. 14. Wipe down nipples and dry. 15. Oil nipples, replace in cylinder. 16. Replace cylinder in gun. 17. Oil and reassemble cylinder pin and loading lever.
Great instructions!!
Really appreciate this video, very informative. Would you consider doing a cap’n’ball or cartridge revolver next? For a cartridge BP revolver I’m especially curious if it needs less cleaning due to some sealing that cartridge does.
Probably have to concentrate cleaning on the barrel, as our great instructor does.
Thank you. 👍🏼
Great video
so nice to see this
Thank you for the demonstration. Could you demonstrate how you clean a full stock flintlock with the barrel pinned to the stock? For the nipples, would shotgun choke grease serve?
Great show big fan love you're videos
Thank you
We have a product in the US I like to use on corrosive ammo situations: Marvel's Mystery Oil. It's an automotive product, not marketed for guns, but it neutralizes acids, lubricates, etc. And it's much cheaper than name brand gun oils. I've used in for years on BP revolvers with excellent results.
That's what you should do what I have found oil no good it turns to tar like substance I know it's hard to find but Bear grease works great I'm sure other grease organic type be fine too Absolute dedication absolute loyalty+++
Nice video.
Great video! What's the name on the lock? I have a very similar looking shotgun, but with damascus barrels.
What is the strap on your range rod used for? Also great video, I like this method. And the timing is perfect I just got my first black powder shotgun last week
It used in the field or range to carry on shoulder .
I have a double barrel black powder shotgun from 1860. It's in perfect condition.
Does anyone know wether this copper paste is already in use for a long time or is it a rather modern product?
Very good
I believe that chair is the same as mine.
Thanks again for sharing a black powder related video. I am really enjoying your videos and the interesting firearms you present, often in a historic setting. A bit off topic; but are you aware of the coming lead ban for firearm projectiles in the EU? This will effectively destroy the black powder shooting hobby, as there are no alternatives to lead in our projectiles. I'm a bit worried about this. Do you know if MLAIC has taken some action? Here in Norway none of the shooting organizations are doing anything, and we will probably have to comply to the coming ban in 2023.
Americans can use a gallon milk jug. Also, you can find copper anti-sieze at any auto parts store. A small tube will do, as a little goes a long way.
Sou brasileiro e meu sonho é possuir uma espingarda desse modelo é perfeita no acabamento e nos detalhes 🇧🇷
Conhece a CBTAH?
Excellent! 👍👍😎
You do a great job I this video and all.the videos that I have see you do to.date. No.esoteric or political BS. Just good info and good shooting info..
1:3 Ballistol and water mixture will save you even more time. No need for the water pump method. Finish with 100% Ballistol to oil it for storage.
All you need is a bore tool some cloth... soap and water. And motor oil to oil the bore and gun so it doesnt rust. Its easy
Another superb video. Hey, I thought I heard you say your last name in Nemeth. My Great Grandparents were from Hidas. (Nemeth and Horvat) I know the name is fairly common but still cool! CIAO
If you interest in hunting jackals pls come to central Serbia we have a problem with to much jackals and fox trust me
Does anyone know if copper or pewter roundballs can be used as an alternative to lead in a smooth bore?
I am researching the hunting rifle depicted in Eugène Delacroix’s painting “Liberty Leading The People.” It was a work commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 in France. The bourgeoisie is represented by a young man in a top hat holding what appears to be a double-barreled shotgun. Wikipedia has a detailed version of the painting, but I cannot determine if the hammer indicates the gun has been shot or is ready to be shot. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My Daughter and I love my Pedersoli 12G, I'm buying another in the near future for my Daughters Birthday. A question for you, how often do you re'clean when in storage/not being used for say 6 months? I usually re-clean once every 6 weeks tokeep all internals happy.
I have kept rifles and shotguns in gun socks for years at times and they still look fine. I do have the advantage of not living in a grossly humid area.
I have a reproduction of an Enfield muscket made by Pederosoli. Will this cleaning techniquice be viable for it? I am always looking for ways to speed up the process while having a clean weapon for next use.
Nice ml guns I have one mussleloader with big chamber but poor penetration how can i improve penetration
I asume you do the same this with flintlock and matchlock?
I allways use soapy water (soapflakes), it leaves a greasy surface when the water evaporates, and keeps the rust away till you oil it
ROFLMAO. Finally, someone who really knows how to clean a BP gun. I really thought you'd forget to mention the wife. Nope , you covered all the bases. Now, if you can figure a way to convince her it's a new outdoorsman air freshener......
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Hi , I have a early Jaeger rifle that was repurposed in ww2 and used to kill a large number of Nazis. Its single shot. Rondelle and brass pins from the war! Think you would like it!. Have you seen many black powder guns user by the resistance?
Aqui no Brasil, na cultura antiga exprimia suco de limão na água quente pra facilitar a limpeza.
👍 Danke fürs Hochladen! 👍 Thanks for uploading! 👍 Very good and beautiful, thank you! 👍 Sehr gut und schön, danke!
The " vedge ." .... you are good .
Cara sou do Brasil da cidade de Linhares bom dia como faço pra adquirir uma carabina desta com um calibre menor mais fina 40 mm ou 36 mm como faço pra importar amigo
I don't have any BP gun, I'll watch the video anyway. I'll do as you instructed, I'll buy a BP gun now.
I just got myself a pedersoli 10gauge.
Great choice!
I'm saving money to get a new 10 gauge muzzleloader! You said about making the kitchen dirty and your wife will kill you. Yup I've learn my lesson when we got married 7 years ago hahaha
How do you clean the patent breech area on a pedersoli hawken? My jag is too large to fit in that area as well as the fire channel and I'm wondering if residue will build up over time.
The water flowing in an out cleans the smaller diameter are as well. if you want to be perfect, after a few sessions use a smaller diametre brass brush to clean it. Or the steam cleaner can be a good solution as well.
Yup, you use what fits for the task
I assume all of this applies to revolvers too
What if use non corrosive gunpowder
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Where do you buy copper paste and what are the advantages? I'm in America and I've never heard of anyone using it before.
You can buy copper grease or spray from hardware stores.
Antiseze is available as either a zinc or copper based grease. Another trade name Is Neversieze. The zinc based grease can be used around aluminum components. NEVER use the copper based grease around aluminum. One must keep track of the galvanic series. One should be able to find the compounds at any auto parts store. They are very commonly used on spark plugs.
5:27 lmao
Ye kah milega sir
And if your using Pyrodex as a BP substitute, use white viniger to neutralize the acid that Pyrodex makes when fired. Or so I've been told.
Pyrodex is basic, not acidic. Other than that you are correct, vinegar first, then water
The only objection the manufacturer of my rifle has is do not lubricate with PETROLEUM based products. They make a lubricant that can be used on patches as well as anointing the bore to prevent rust.Anyway very interesting video. Stay well.
Очень интересно!!!
И полезно.
I wanna ask you with this brass brush does your barrel get rough(i mean not smooth)
Brass is softer than steel so it cannot scratch the barrel.
No
@@gregorybrown4062 thx