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Marrakai
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Re: Shooting Black powder shot shells
21/05/24 09:22 AM

Ed's Red is the duck's nuts for cleaning shotguns IMHO.
Nitro and black powder.
Shotgun bores need a lot of solvent due to the surface area, and Ed's Red can be made up in quantity dirt cheap compared with commercial bore solvents.
...and the 25% acetone component sorts any plastic fouling.
In practice I often use a decent spray of Inox wiped out with a wad of wet-strength paper towel (kitchen paper) when the nitro shottie is in day-to-day use during the waterfowl season, but BP needs more attention. "Never let the sun set on a fouled barrel"!

Pretty sure my BP load is now 80gr 2F under an ounce of Bismuth #3s, although being conservative I started off with 75gr powder. Velocity is a bit under 1000fps.
A very old article tossed up on the web HERE ends with an account of my first evening on the swamps with black powder in a Scott "Victoria" top-lever hammergun.
Hope you find it of interest.

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Shooting Black powder shot shells	LTK	20/05/24 11:20 PM
Re: Shooting Black powder shot shells	DarylS	21/05/24 01:13 AM
Re: Shooting Black powder shot shells	93x64mm	21/05/24 06:04 AM
Re: Shooting Black powder shot shells	DarylS	21/05/24 10:39 AM
Re: Shooting Black powder shot shells	LTK	22/05/24 12:50 AM
Re: Shooting Black powder shot shells	3DogMike	22/05/24 01:17 AM
Re: Shooting Black powder shot shells	DarylS	22/05/24 01:25 AM
Re: Shooting Black powder shot shells	DarylS	22/05/24 01:31 AM
Re: Shooting Black powder shot shells	sharps4590	22/05/24 05:27 AM
Re: Shooting Black powder shot shells	Marrakai	22/05/24 11:33 AM
Re: Shooting Black powder shot shells	3DogMike	23/05/24 02:26 AM
Re: Shooting Black powder shot shells	LTK	23/05/24 11:38 PM
Re: Shooting Black powder shot shells	lancaster	12/06/24 03:40 PM
Re: Shooting Black powder shot shells	DarylS	23/05/24 01:16 AM
Re: Shooting Black powder shot shells	eagle27	21/05/24 07:34 AM
Re: Shooting Black powder shot shells	Marrakai	21/05/24 09:22 AM
Re: Shooting Black powder shot shells	sharps4590	21/05/24 07:29 AM

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