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what?Well if it wasn't for all this dryness and just plain HOT...what's to stop you...?
I'm just glad we can still shoot at this weekend's Rendezvous...
Andy
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what?Well if it wasn't for all this dryness and just plain HOT...what's to stop you...?
I'm just glad we can still shoot at this weekend's Rendezvous...
Andy
Especially when mixed with Murphy's Oil Soap 50/50 - good 'old school' BP solvent!Windex makes a good cleaner,
this is known as the pyrodex paradox
not really
Reviving an old thread, but I finally shot my new Uberti Walker last week with Allliant Black MZ. Put forty-two rounds through it. Circumstances being what they are I was not able to clean it for a bit over a week.
Note I managed to forget a powder flask so I poured the powder into a small cup and then into the measure.
I've never shot real black powder and only have a little experience with Pyrodex in my Ruger Old Army and a Hawken rifle several years ago. That being said, my opinion on Black MZ is very favorable.
Clumping. Several online reports of clumping. Yes there were a couple of clumps when I poured it into the cup, but they broke up just by touching them. No real cohesion at all.
Smoke. Oh yeah, it smokes!! Like "couldn't see the target for several seconds after each shot" kind of smoke.
Ignition. Flawless once I realized that the nipples are sized for #11 caps, not #10s.
Power and recoil. Hard to judge with no real personal comparison, but 40 grains made me smile and 60 grains (max load) was still readily manageable. Of course, at 4 1/2 lbs. unloaded, recoil isn't likely to be a problem. My friend's wife, who is a bit recoil shy, shot a 60-grain load, smiled and shot two more!! Certainly it was adequate for the task at hand, but I would definitely do some serious testing before hunting with it. Not that I doubt it's performance, I would just want to know how it compares.
Now the $64 question, how does it clean up?? Again, limited experience with anything else myself, but I thought it was really easy. Took the gun apart and started with the cylinder. Took it to the utility sink and sprayed it with aerosol glass cleaner. Filled the chambers and cuffed the end to force the cleaner through the nipples. Three sprays and cuffs and the cleaner ran clear. Turned the cylinder over and sprayed around the nipples. A couple of rinses and again he cleaner is clear. A hot water rinse and a couple more sprays into the chambers with a rinse and all is well. You can see the machine marks in the bottom of the chambers. An alcohol rinse to remove the water, towel it off and spray it with RemOil and it's done. Not a speck of anything left on it and no signs of having sat for a week uncleaned. Next was the frame. I didn't want to fill it with glass cleaner or water so I gave it a judicious wipe down with glass cleaner on rags and Q-tips, then water, then alcohol, then oil. No scrubbing necessary on any of it. A simple pass with the Q-tip or rag and it was down to the original finish. Finally the barrel. Back to the utility sink and a complete soaking in glass cleaner. Filled the barrel and blew it out a couple of times and the cleaner runs clear. Hot water rinse, alcohol rinse, towel off and RemOil. Now drag a couple of patches through it and the first one has a small amount of brown residue and the second one is clean. Drug a Hoppe's-soaked patch through it and it then a dry one and it comes out clean too. Oiled the necessary spots and reassembled it. It looks as good as the day I bought it. Keep in mind the above cleaning took maybe fifteen minutes. In hindsight I should have taken the grips off and treated the frame the same as the cylinder and barrel. It would have been quicker. I must reiterate, there was no scrubbing of any kind necessary!! All just rinse and wipe.
What exactly happened to the stainless steel from the neglect?My buddy Tom neglected his stainless ROA for a week or so
What exactly happened to the stainless steel from the neglect?