muzzleloader cleaner for corrosive ammo

Mr. Gunz

muzzleloader cleaner for corrosive ammo...would it work...nuteralize the salts and such?

jonk

Well it should wash away the salts, yes; as it is water based.

You don't neutralize them but you surely will neutralize the effects! [:)]

Hot soap and water will work too (for muzzleloaders as well) as well as any water-based oil.

bpost

It works good, the BP solvents that is. I used some of the Remington Vortex stuff on a rifle after shooting 100 rounds of corrosive 8MM mauser ammo. I left the rifle in my barn for days after passing one wet patch down the bore. It took the rust causing stuff right out. Rust never developed in the bore. I even tested not cleaning it at all using just ashort blast of wd-40, rust never developed from that either.

Personally, from my experience, shooting about 10,000 corrosive primed rounds, the problem of rust is way over stated. I could see severe issues in hot humid tropical areas for sure. But; if you shoot, flush with water based cleaners to flood the salts then clean normally after that, there are no problems. The US WWII GI fighting on the islands getting soaked with sea water and incessant rains must have had a hell of a time. We are not facing the same environments those brave men did.

Fatstrat

I use Windex w/Amonia. Kinda give it 1/2 way regular cleaning to get the worst foulng out. Go in w/Windex. Then a good regular reclean and oiling.