I hope I haven't......

by RayLee, Thursday, June 12, 2025, 18:11 (14 days ago) @ AaronB

given bad advice re. not following the convention of the mixing of petroleum products & b.p. residues resulting in difficult to remove fouling. I used to believe it adamantly.

Then came the internet and the world got suddenly smaller and the aussies and the englishers talked of readily using petroleum products and many of them had never heard the "natural only" approach that was etched in granite to us "yanks" as they referred to us.

Then I read an old n.r.a. american rifleman (1948 ?) and the author was a great muzzleloading enthusiast and collector and had bought up all of the stock and good will of the original hawken shop. He tested several "1/2 ounce" guns (.53" ?) with up to 220 grains of powder and used Vaseline as patch lube and cleaned with hoppes # 9 and g.i. spec. gun oils presumably because he didn't know any better.