I have used hot water and then muzzle magic . Very strong cleaner . Never seems to get it totally clean. But hey it’s black powder .
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That's the way iv'e always cleaned mindOn all of mine I always clean after shooting them. I fill the sink half way up with, hot I mean hot water and Dawn dish washing soap. Then I pull the nipple and submerge the barrel nipple side in. I take my ramrod and use it like a plunger, do several times up and down until the barrel is full and the water is squirting out the nipple opening. I rinse the inside with just boiling water until clear. Then I run a rod down with a mop and patch to lube. Apply light coat of oil on the barrel, reassemble and store them.
I has cleaned them in the shower.the way I was taught!!
I tend to use TC Bore Butter and burnish it in real good after cleaning as that is what I was told to do by the guy over in Stone Mountain when I purchased a kit to assemble nack in the 1980s. I has done the same with a gun oil and it seems to work about as well so long as you done a good job on the cleaning.I've had 2 blackpowder guns rust after I cleaned them, but two other guns I shot for years without ever having rust form on them. I "thought" I cleaned them correctly using the same techniques as my father taught me for shooting corrosive-primed ammo (he used to shoot tons of it made during the World War I through 1930s.)
1-- Use a separate cleaning kit, or at least different brushes tips, and rods. Not the same cleaning kit you use for your smokeless guns.
2-- Clean the barrel with very hot soapy water. Wipe down the other parts with either this hot water or USGI corrosive bore cleaner or some commercial product made for black powder.
3-- Dry the bore and the rest of the gun with heat such as from an electric hairdryer. If all you cleaned was the bore or barreled action AND the water you used was extremely hot (like out of the pan heated on the stove boiling hot) not just from the hot tap water from your sink's faucet, then drying it may not be necessary --because the metal will be hot enough to dry on its own .
4-- After the gun is dry, OIL and LUBE it as you would any other gun.