Neat/inexpensive Bore Lights!

[Lefty38-55]

Caveat - From Amazon, but if you shop there & have Prime, they are a BEST BUY with the free shipping!

Bore Size - To make them fit a 45-cal bore, you need to trim them down to the file, I just checked them up in a cordless drill and had at it, works!

Price - 75-cents each when buying (12) and 53-cents each when buying (30).

If I had a muzzleloader shop, I would buy 50 or 100 and sell them for $3 each, LOL!

Amazon.com

Note I do use one of the ‘bobber lights’ for smaller bores, in the rare and HARD to find white color, but they are much more expen$ive. Lighted archery nocks are also way more expen$ive!
Trimmed down they fit a 45-cal bore.

Old 1700s rusty Snaphaunce bore

Clean bore

Almost too bright for a cell phone photo, but in the flesh they work de bomb!

 

[792mauser]

Interesting
Gotta look into that

 

[CoalCrackerAl]

I have these. I keep one on my bench and one i my range bag.

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[Steel Horse Rider]

Lefty: Do you drop them down the barrel of a muzzleloader? That would be good for everywhere but the area around the breech plug.

 

[Lefty38-55]

Yez,

Lefty: Do you drop them down the barrel of a muzzleloader? That would be good for everywhere but the area around the breech plug.

Yes, drop them right down in!

I also have one of those $15 endoscopes that connects to a small tablet PC, but this gives an instant review of the entire bore condition, at least that about 1” above the breech.

TIP - They are quite sensitive for the batteries, as tightening them makes the connection, so DO NOT drop it straight down in, but I tip the barrel at a very shallow angle or I put it in slow, still at a low angle and use the ramrod to seat it at the breech.

 

[Lefty38-55]

These are pictures for what a $15 endoscope can do down the bore, looking straight down in. These are of my bro's BP cartridge rifle.

For best pictures above the breech, stuff a tuft of cotton ball down ahead of the light so it reflects it.

 

[Steel Horse Rider]

So you are talking about inlines? I only have the old style muzzle stuffers and that would not illuminate the most important part.

 

[Jackrabbit1957]

Bore scope works good on traditional ones as well, I was able to get down into the chamber/ breech on my old double barrel and really get a good look.

 

[dave951]

For just a $1 more, you can get a 24 pack

Amazon.com

 

[Old No7]

Great idea about those cheap lights brother!

These are pictures for what a $15 endoscope can do down the bore, looking straight down in. These are of my bro's BP cartridge rifle.

For best pictures above the breech, stuff a tuft of cotton ball down ahead of the light so it reflects it.

Just one thing to watch out for...

When using a white patch pushed ahead of the Endo Scope to snap pictures, if the patch has too coarse of a weave it can result in shadows on the lands and grooves and make them look worse than they are; also, play around some with how close the camera is to the patch to get the clearest/best image.

Old No7
( or "Righty", as my lefty twin calls me )