A friend of mine asked me to clean his Model 81 Browning BLR. When I went to pull the bolt the clean the rifle from the breech, I couldn't figure out how to remove the bolt. I had my friend provide the manual for the rifle, but it recommends, of all things, that the rifle be cleaned from the muzzle. Can this be true? Is it possible to remove the bolt from this rifle for cleaning from the breech end with a standard rod? I don't have a bore snake type cleaning kit. Any info will be appreciated.
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Help with Model 81 BLR
- Thread starter rhetor
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Badger Arms
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Clean it from the muzzle. Taking the bolt out is a difficult task and requires removal of splined pins.
A year or so back I was looking at a BAR in 308 and asked the dealer (a friend of mine) how in the devil you took the thing apart to clean it. He said Browning recommends you do not take it apart, in fact there is no "field stripping'" procedure in the owner's manual. He told me the same thing applied to the Browning Lever Action's. I didn't buy the BAR and passed on a BLR for this vary reason.
Many years ago a man who wore green clothes and had many stipes on his sleves convinced me that cleanliness is next to Godliness when it came to rifles (and all other firearms by extension), That lesson stuck.
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Dave T
PCSD Ret
AMBUSCADE
Arizona CCW and Renewal Classes
Tactical Self -defense training.
ambush@theriver.com
Many years ago a man who wore green clothes and had many stipes on his sleves convinced me that cleanliness is next to Godliness when it came to rifles (and all other firearms by extension), That lesson stuck.
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Dave T
PCSD Ret
AMBUSCADE
Arizona CCW and Renewal Classes
Tactical Self -defense training.
ambush@theriver.com
Thanks for the responses guys. Since all my lever guns are Marlins, I'm used to cleaning lever guns from the breech. My M1A is the only rifle I clean from the muzzle. My son liked the feel of the little Browning (in .243); it's a light, quick-to-the-shoulder rig, but I sure don't care for a rifle w/o a removeable bolt. The friend who owns the rifle only shoots it during deer season and has never cleaned it.