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Old 10-26-2009, 08:57 AM
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skeeter,

Very good report!

With so many different products on the market these days for patch lube and cleaning dope, it was bound to result in some bad interaction/reaction.

I am glad you figured out the problem and passed it along.

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Old 10-28-2009, 07:42 PM
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That's interesting...I've used T/C and Oxyoke precut patches prelubed with Natural Lube 1000 for the past 18 years in several calibers of TC and GM barrels.

I like to shoot 40-50 shot range sessions year round without wiping beteen shots but in the winter time here, the cool dry, low humidity air will not allow that as the NL1000 patches are not wet enough.

So I routinely squeeze a few squirts of Hoppes into a bag of TC NL1000 patches and I'm then able to do so...never had a problem with fouling or accuracy...and the bore is almost perfectly clean when I'm done.
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Old 10-30-2009, 07:26 PM
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You might try going to a thicker patch. I built a .45 cal. years ago and it would only shoot accurately with thin patches. After acouple of years of shooting it opened up bad also. I went from .006 patches to .012 patches and it shoot like a deam again.
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