g.willikers
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Bicycle shops sell something similar for inflating tires.
Maybe one of those could be adapted.
Bicycle shops sell something similar for inflating tires.
Maybe one of those could be adapted.
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Shipping a Rifle....
- Thread starter sixgun67
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Here's an idea, buy a muzzleloader bullet puller (less than $5 at your gun store) and mail it to him. They screw onto the end of your ram rod and have what looks like a wine bottle corkscrew on the end. You use it to snag the bullet and pull it out. Once the bullet is out, the powder should simply fall out (or if it is loaded with pellets, the same bullet puller will breakup and snag the pellets too).
[Once the bullet is out, the powder should simply fall out]
It's a good idea, to mail him the puller, along with instructions.
BUT
If loose powder was used for the load, it will have been (or should have been) compacted during loading, solidifying - and need to be dug out with the same puller, after the bullet is pulled.
FWIW, I've found that pellets usually fall out after a little sideslap to the breechplug with the muzzle pointed down.
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It's a good idea, to mail him the puller, along with instructions.
BUT
If loose powder was used for the load, it will have been (or should have been) compacted during loading, solidifying - and need to be dug out with the same puller, after the bullet is pulled.
FWIW, I've found that pellets usually fall out after a little sideslap to the breechplug with the muzzle pointed down.
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Thanks for all the info guys, it is appreciated.
I've contacted a sister and she's gonna have her husband fire it, break it down, and ship it. I told her no hurry, just gotta have it before the second week of November!
This will be no problem for her, as she lives only about 60 miles or so from dad and visits him almost weekly.
I don't want dad to try it himself and he's kinda unable. He had a stroke six years ago and his left side is not what it should be. I don't want to burden him with my lack of intelligence. My sister and I are like 'two peas in a pod', and she doesn't mind at all.
By the way, my dad gets along remarkably well, walks slowly, but without a cane or walker, and drives both his manual transmission pickups, with only a small extension bolted to the clutch pedals to make them wider. He amazes me.
Take care guys!
sixgun
I've contacted a sister and she's gonna have her husband fire it, break it down, and ship it. I told her no hurry, just gotta have it before the second week of November!
This will be no problem for her, as she lives only about 60 miles or so from dad and visits him almost weekly.
I don't want dad to try it himself and he's kinda unable. He had a stroke six years ago and his left side is not what it should be. I don't want to burden him with my lack of intelligence. My sister and I are like 'two peas in a pod', and she doesn't mind at all.
By the way, my dad gets along remarkably well, walks slowly, but without a cane or walker, and drives both his manual transmission pickups, with only a small extension bolted to the clutch pedals to make them wider. He amazes me.
Take care guys!
sixgun
By the way, my dad gets along remarkably well, walks slowly, but without a cane or walker, and drives both his manual transmission pickups
Sounds like half the population of SW FL. Glad you got your problem resolved.