Cleaning an ANTIQUE SHOTGUN After Turkey Hunting In the Rain | Muzzleloader Turkey Hunt
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This is a great video on cleaning a black powder shotgun. I just acquired an older Pietta shotgun from a friend. I wanted to give it good cleaning before I tried to shoot it.
You know what really makes this video fun? The fact that YOU are doing the cleaning and not me! 😂
As for a T-shirt, Kibler has that new one that is a Flint Lock. He doesn't make my size, but I am 1) working on that, and 2) pretty sure he has your size (thin!)
LOL, I like that Doc!
I've got a Kibler shirt, time to get it out!
A nice little tool for pushing wedge keyes is a half of a spring type clothes pin, take it apart and you have 2 tools that you can whittle down to clear and you can tap on it with a hammer too.
Nice! Thanks!
Interesting how you clean using the bucket and patch to clean with suction. I’ve never seen that method.
Change the fire order if you can. I have had trouble with the second shot moving powder just enough to not fire on the second shot, maybe from heat and powder movement.
Thanks for sharing your video
Thank you for sharing this video Ethan. Very few videos on the muzzleloader shotgun, I hope you plan to do some more in the future. Also thanks for sharing the balistol cap trick. Most of the time I simply dry clean the nipples on my side by side unless I hang done a lot of shooting or have been in damp weather. Again thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks for watchin!
What you just did for your shotgun, is how I clean my TC Hawkens, and CVA Kentucky every time, less the kleenzoil. As for cleaning/swabbing patches I use my light flannel shirts that get worn out. Cut the button strips, collar, cuffs off, then cut the rest into about 2” squares, works for me.
Smart! I like that recycling of your shirts.
Buy a yard of cotton flannnel material and cut it in squares, of the size you need. These will last for a long time and no need to feel bad about throwing them away after use. Be sure to use the fuzzy side toward the bore
Thanks for the tip!
Good morning from Syracuse NY brother and everyone else please share the steps for a percussion muzzleloader brother before you loaded it
awesome video
I have an old drisket 14 gauge. I usually soak the nipples the same way and take the barrels in the shower with me. Probably way overkill, but it's absolutely spotless clean before I oil it.
I'm new to ML shotguns, when you're on the trap range do you swab your bore after a certain number of shots? , and if so how many ?
It depends on the shooter really. Some swab with a mop (range rod with wet fabric) after each shot, others after 3, others after 5, etc. It's all in what their muzzleloaders like.
@@ILoveMuzzleloading Thanks!!
Gotta love Maine Powdah House! As for cleaning percussion guns, take a small sheet of rubber or leather, cock the hammer and put it over the nipple. Lower the hammer to seal off the nipple. Fill the bore (s) with hot water, let sit for a half hour and dump. Repeat until water comes out clean. Spray water ballistol solution down bore and swab with patches on a jag until they come out clean and dry. Spray straight ballistol down bore let sit for a bit then swab until patches are just slightly oily. Done. This works for flintlocks too, but getting the touch hole sealed is a bitch. I usually just bring my flintlock barrels in the shower with me.
Thanks for sharing!
A thought. Make yourself, or get a little step stool and keep it under the bench and you can put the short barrels on it to hold while cleaning.
Pipe cleaners for the nipple holes. Just keep cutting them down as you clean.
Thanks Doc, great tips.
Its so hard to get the tang screw out of Pedersoli guns without damaging the screw...
A set of gunsmith screwdrivers might do the trick.
Are you sure the Clenzoil isn't causing your misfires? Two caps go off but gun doesn't is a lot - percussion guns should be near 100%
I’m pretty sure, I dry the bore and nipples before loading by snapping 2 caps and swabbing with a dry patch. I’ve not had these issues with my cleaning procedure before, but I’m not immune to being wrong!
Please explain snapping off a couple caps my friend
It's something I learned to do and I see it done a lot at the NMLRA shoots. Snapping a couple caps ensures your bore is clear and forces out any cleaning solvents that might remain in the bore. In combination with a dry patch, it's a great way to start fresh.
I'm looking for someone to put this information in a video for newbies with percussion muzzleloaders my friend
I’m not 100% this is true but I remember reading that when your patches are just gray it’s graphite from the black powder.
Smart!
A few pots of boiling water down the barrel
Totally unnecessary
Ok my friend
Windex! it will make the fouling run off!
I gotta try that
I clean my muzzleloader the mountain man way
I can't tell you how many gun shows I've been to wear half of the muzzleloaders look like they were shot and then thrown in a humid closet no matter what quality your Muzzleloader is an original 1700s Flintlock or a modern Indian reproduction please take care of these guns so when they're passed down to the Next Generation and more people are able to enjoy these pieces of Art !
Hey, great video. But....!!! I'm kind of concerned about your miss-fires, both in this video, and the video about leaving the guns loaded for periods of time, and getting miss-fires. I would not critique you cleaning practices, but before loading a gun for a hunt you really want to first dry patch it well, then clean it again using denatured alcohol. Take the cones off and just like you soaked them in Ballistol, soak them in the alcohol. Then run some good "real" pipe cleaners wet with alcohol into the flash channels. Clean the cones with the alcohol wetted pipe cleaners. Clean the bores and breech with alcohol wet patches. Then dry patch the barrels and breech again. Let sit for a while, and THEN load. No offense, but I think you are loading your gun with cleaning solvents still remaining. ? Which can be hard or impossible to remove without cleaning with alcohol. Shooting a little carb-cleaner through the flash channels and cones would not hurt either. Again, no offense, but it "seems" like you are getting way too many miss-fires. Okay, good job, love your channel, just trying to help. :)
Really appreciate the comment and diagnosis of possible issues! I snap two caps and dry the bore with a dry patch before loading after something has been sitting.
@@ILoveMuzzleloading Well, you might want to beat me over the head with that shotgun by now, but I've got to say that snapping caps is not a good idea either. Give it the alcohol cleaning/treatment described, don't snap caps, and see what happens. Snapped caps just produce more crud, and worse crud when it mixes with leftover lube/oil or cleaning solutions. Try it, might even make a good video. !!! Thank you for listening, I don't mean to be Mr. Know-it-all, but I do get 100% reliability in both my percussion and flintlock guns. :)
@@kneyork9930 No beating is going to happen here! I'm a sponge! Thank you for the tips!
@@kneyork9930 Snapping a couple caps ensures that the nipples and the chamber is clear. and also dries out the chamber if any moisture is present.
You are making WAAAAYYY to much out of cleaning black powder!
Folks tell me I’m not cleaning enough, others too much, everyone has their method
He is pretty much "spot on".
You cant clean a BP gun too much or oil them too often.
I missed spring turkey!! I will be making da fall turkey!@ :D