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#10MinuteTalk - How to Clean a Muzzleloader

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Sports, Vortex Optics, Shooting, Scope, Gun, Long Range, Wilderness, Hunting, Riflescope, Vortex, Vortex Nation Podcast, Binoculars, Vortex Nation, Optics, Rifle

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Muzzleloaders inherently run a bit dirty. Learn how to clean yours to ensure it runs optimally for years. Take it form a guy who’s sacrificed a couple to the “corrosion gods”, a bit of care goes a very long ways….And it’s not that hard or time-intensive.

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0:00.0

What is up everybody, we have 10 minutes to talk with our very own Ryan Muckenherne on

0:09.1

how to clean a muzzle loader.

0:11.7

Now muzzle loaders, there's several different, several different styles of muzzle loaders.

0:15.7

You can get into muzzling about as deep as you want.

0:19.0

You can go super crazy long range muzzle loader, you can go very traditional.

0:23.9

But one thing they have in common is after you fire a few shots down range, they can

0:29.2

be prone to fouling and eventually as much as I hate to say it, because I hate cleaning

0:34.0

firearms and I've even ruined a couple of muzzle loaders by not cleaning them, right?

0:37.9

You got to clean the darn thing.

0:39.2

So that's why we have you to walk us through the basics of cleaning your muzzle loader.

0:44.4

Yes.

0:45.4

So as Mark had mentioned, a couple of different kinds, I'm going to break these up categorically

0:50.0

into traditional modern inline and then high performance advanced.

0:54.4

We're going to focus on the modern inline because that's what most folks have and we're

0:58.3

going to be talking about not black powder because that's a whole different conversation.

1:05.0

But not black powder, black powder substitute, not smokeless powder, black powder substitute,

1:10.3

not black powder.

1:11.3

And so yes, Mark, I have also ruined a couple of muzzle loaders.

1:14.3

I've had a couple of muzzle loaders of mine ruined by failure to cleaning, improper cleaning,

1:21.3

no cleaning, cleaning gone awry, ton of different headlines.

1:26.0

There's a couple of things that you really just need to focus on and it's really not

1:30.2

as daunting a process as a lot of people talk about with muzzle loaders because I think

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