Colorado Redneck
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Well, here it is about 10 days before black powder season, and I screwed up my gun. I have a jag with a dry patch stuck at the breech end of the barrel, and the threaded brass fitting came off of the derned ram rod. I have a range rod, and used a ball retriever that has been good for getting lead balls removed. No dice. The brass fitting must fit inside of the tube shaped grabber, and even though I could get the wad tangled up in that grabber, it would come apart when I tried to remove the rod.
I have run a lubed patch down to the brass jag/fitting to try and ease the removal. I tried the pointed screw attachment on the range rod and cannot get anything started into stuck brass. Dagnabbit!
I have one of those handy dandy little CO2 ball removers but am fresh out of CO2. I will get some CO2 tomorrow. If that doesn't work (and I doubt it will, because the jag fits rather loosely into the barrel and the only thing jamming it in the tube is that dry patch....the CO2 will probably leak around the thing.)
I do not...repeat do not want to remove the breech plug, if there is any other way to get this out. I thought about trying to get a drill bit into the range rod tip some way and drilling a starter hole in the brass fitting holding the jag, and then maybe the screw type ball remover would get a hold in there.
Thoughts?
I have run a lubed patch down to the brass jag/fitting to try and ease the removal. I tried the pointed screw attachment on the range rod and cannot get anything started into stuck brass. Dagnabbit!
I have one of those handy dandy little CO2 ball removers but am fresh out of CO2. I will get some CO2 tomorrow. If that doesn't work (and I doubt it will, because the jag fits rather loosely into the barrel and the only thing jamming it in the tube is that dry patch....the CO2 will probably leak around the thing.)
I do not...repeat do not want to remove the breech plug, if there is any other way to get this out. I thought about trying to get a drill bit into the range rod tip some way and drilling a starter hole in the brass fitting holding the jag, and then maybe the screw type ball remover would get a hold in there.
Thoughts?
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