Newbee with rust promlems

I picked up a pair of 3rd generation Colt 1860's this past weekend. In shot them Sunday cleaned them ,and noticed some rust inside the cylinders. Along with a little in one of the barrels. I'm assuming that I did not clean them well enough. I'm using pyrodex with a little bit of crisco on top of the Ball. When I cleaned it I poured scolding hot water down the barrel along with rinsing the cylinders out with the hot water and the frame without getting the grips wet. After this I used Hopes #9 and 3in1 to clean and lube. Which includes having a patch with lube ran down the barrel in each cylinder. If the rust comes back tomorrow as everything has a coat of oil I'll post pictures of the rust sorry I did not think about it until after I recleaned them.

Try cleaning it with hot water+dish detergent or Windex and hot water. After cleaning, spray with WD 40 to displace any remaining water. Ox-Yoke Blue is a good all natural cleaner as well. Ballistol works also. Check daily. I'd try to stay away from petroleum based cleaners. I'd also recommend a wonder wad lubed with bore butter or other natural lube. Seems to make my barrel stay cleaner.

I use bore butter too after cleaning. Never any issue with rust.

Part of the problem is that you used modern cleaning materials. Hoppes and 3-in-1 just don't seem to work well in BP firearms, in my experience.

Lube with Bore Butter or olive oil, store muzzle down in a dry area. Others' results might be different. Warm or hot war, some detergent in the water, cotton rags (no synthetics) and some Q-tips/pipe cleaners work wonders on these guns, esp. revolvers, which have lots of lots of nooks and crannies to clean.

To do it as they did back then, use flax scrap (tow) and feathers also to clean the guns. The tow (on a worm and rod) for swabbing out barrels and lubing, the feathers for cleaning the hidden areas. You'd be surprised how well it works!

This.

I use nothing but water and dishwashing liquid (I like Ajax) until every spec of the fouling is gone. Black powder and Pyrodex (and the other subs I've tried, which isn't many) fouling will not dissolve in petroleum-based oils and cleaners. It will actually make them harder to remove.

Also, in my experience Pyrodex is one of the nastiest, most corrosive propellants ever concocted by mankind.

The Holy Black cleans up much easier if done properly.

I have been using hot water and tide for years, then lube the barrel and cylinders with bore butter, do the same routine with my .54 rifle.

+1 with the bore butter ,however I use vegetable oil on my pillow ticking with my BP gun.

Also it should be noted that the rusting process starts immediately after you clean the gun with water, so I use GIBBS immediately after cleaning.

I use GIBBS brand mega penetrant for storage & rust protection, if there was anything better out there I would use it.

www.GIBBSBRAND.com

Hope this helps!

i store mine with bore butter as well and so far so good!

I haven't messed with black powder but I do shoot corrosive ammo in my M1A.

I use some stuff I got at WalMart called "Black Off". Its red in color, comes in pint plastic bottles, and I use a tooth brush to scrub (liberally splashing the stuff onto the parts I'm scrubbing) and I use it on the patches and brushes in the barrel/gas system and then I spray everything off with carb. cleaner, spray it with Rem-oil, wipe it down with an oily rag and put it away.

Never any problems with rust. Not sure what's in Black Off, but it seems to work.

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