MAINTENANCE OF YOUR ARMS

Maintenance of your arms

There are different ways to clean your weapon after your shooting session it must be cleaned after each session to prevent corrosion and fouling it.

You must bring it to a basin of warm water, a little dish soap (mir)

a cleaning kit in the caliber of your tree, a toothbrush, a rag ... 

Here's to one of the methods I will show you below as a method

 very effective with a steam cleaner

There are different types of cleaning kit more or less expensive.

Here it that examples:

You must then disassemble your weapon completely

you can help schema parts of your weapon provided 

with the user during purchase or go throw 

an eye on my page diagrams posted various parts of this blog

Here is also a video that shows you 

complete assembly and disassembly of a  black powder revolver.

 In this video a Pietta Re cal.44 Remington (454)

First remove your barrel, you can use déplombant you can buy armory for less than 10 euros, to clean your chimney properly

put a little bit of spray primer to each location.

Then dismantle all chimneys with a key provided for this purpose

 Here's an example of key dismantled fireplace.

 Soak the barrel directly and fireplaces in hot soapy water.

Do the same with everything else,  screws, relaxation, dog, loading lever, barrel etc ...

you can see on the images left by the powder and fat traces these photos were taken after a shoot 4 barrel.

Once all your parts in hot water with a cleaner brushed out all the dirty parts with a toothbrush and a small wire brush

Once all good clean make sure to dry your parts with cloth, hair dryer, air compressor etc ...

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As a result dry your weapon hairdryer 

Once completed you should back up your weapon lightly oil it before storage. Here's your weapon is clean and ready for a new shooting session

I use WD40 very useful and wicks moisture

You can spray WD40 on all the weapon well well 

wipe with a soft cloth 

Cleaning steam cleaner

Here's a quick and easy solution for cleaning

 your black powder guns.

cleaner  steam, sending steam under pressure very 

convenient to clean chimneys

 cylinders for example.

It was bought for less than 25 €

Here is also a short video demonstration

As a result dry your arms hairdryer 

Once completed you should back up your weapon lightly oil it before storage. Here's your weapon is clean and ready for a new shooting session

I use WD40 very useful and wicks moisture

You can spray WD40 on all the weapon well well 

wipe with a soft cloth 

Here is also a video that shows you complete disassembly and assembly

 a  black powder revolver on this video a Re Pietta Remington