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When I am cleaning my guns after shooting Black Powder, the Ballistol only comes out at the end. I swab the bore and chambers with straight Ballistol, then follow up with a dry patch to mop up the excess, only leaving a thin coating of Ballistol behind to keep the bore and chambers oiled.
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It's the last part at the end of my black powder cleaning that gets me in trouble. After the bore and cylinder is clean, I use it as a rust preventive on the outside, in the bore like you, and each chamber, and also down each nipple hole (so far hasn't affected first shots at the next range session). So my hands smell. "Dinner time!" Then I wash my hands and my wife mentions something about wet dogs. So I wash my hands again. And again.
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Can go to NAPA and get this 765-1526 its water soluble cutting oil.
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- There's a NAPA auto parts in town. I might just have to try this as a replacement for Ballistol. Ballistol is supposedly non toxic, so it won't have that advantage, but maybe for it's miscibility in water it would be good enough.
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Wonder Lube has a natural, orange (y) smell that is not offensive at all.
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That sounds nice. Maybe I'll make the last step a different flavor.