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Summary: Before cleaning a muzzleloader, it's important to take the ammo out and to use a cleaning patch with a cleaning jig. Learn about cleaning the residue out of a muzzleloader's barrel so that it shoots straight with help from a shooting instructor and range officer in this free video on muzzleloaders.
"What we are going to do here is a process of cleaning a muzzle loader and stuff. So, one of the most important things is cleaning the barrel. The first thing we do on cleaning these muzzle loaders is taking your ammo out, we have a cleaning patch we use with a cleaning jag. We put the patch on there, and then we run her down the barrel, swab it out, let her seed out, and we just swab her up and down cleaning all the residue and stuff out of the barrel so it shoots smooth and straight. And that's what you do as far as cleaning the black powder rifle first. As far as the lock, the frisson, and stuff like that we take our screwdriver here, we just pull this lock right out. It's a pretty simple little thing, you've got a couple of screws here, and it just makes it so this lock come out. Let me pull these out here, and I will show what we are talking about. This is pretty important, this is one of the most important things on this is having the lock clean, and your trigger, and your firing mechanism, the vent hole stuff like that. So we've got the plate that we just took out, okay we just grab this. We have unscrewed the backing plate on the other side, and then we just frisson area right here. Your trigger stuck down in here. If you have got a little cleaning brush right here we can just brush all the residue and stuff like that out. Your vent hole here we clean that. The most important this is the frisson right here. We clean this we take the brush here, a clean brush and stuff like that clean the inside of it get all the black powder residue out of it, add a little oil to it, clean the pan, frisson, oil the frisson up just like that where it works smooth. Put it back in, and you are set to go."
eHow Article: How to Clean a Muzzleloader
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