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Eric Krewson:
Most of us don't use hot water in our guns because of the flash rusting that happens almost immediately when you dry the barrel. Everyone has their own method though.

All my guns are flintlocks with fixed barrels that I don't take out of the stock for cleaning. I swab with room temp water and a patch, lots of dry patches to dry the bore, dump some alcohol down the bore to absorb any remaining moisture, a few patches to mop up the alcohol followed by one with WD40 or Balistol and finish up with a patch soaked in Barricade.  If I am going to leave a gun put up for a long time I give the bore a swab with a patch a patch lubed with Rig.

Like I said, we all do it differently and most methods work just fine. I will tell you not to use Rem Oil as your final swab to protect your barrel, I had one rust badly when I did.

archeryrob:
I haven't cleaned a flintlock yet, but watched plenty of people do it with a green twig/toothpick in the touch hole and hot water the same. I know with the 180° water and my barrel is dry shortly after I sit it down inside. Its the same way they cleaned them before the 1900's. Mine still goes bang and the deer still fall over and I can still hit the pie plate at 100 yards.  :D

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