Cornhusker77
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I'll admit, I'm relatively new to black powder, but I do have 3 .50 cal rifles and a .44 C&B revolver.
I've been incident free (mostly) until tonight after an afternoon of shooting my Thompson Renegade.
Cleaning it is where I ran into trouble.
I don't know if it's right or wrong, but I usually stick a patch over a .45 cal cleaning brush and it seems to do a nice job. Tonight I used some rags, cutting them into appropriately sized pieces and pumping water through the barrel.
I ran a dry patch down it to make sure the water was out and it had a little brown gunk on it so I decided to run one more "patch".
I must have cut it a bit big because it stuck about halfway down the barrel, and refused to budge in either direction.
I pulled as hard as I could and darned if I didn't pull the brush right off....not the threads but ahead of the threads.
Now I have a brush wrapped in a rag stuck halfway down my barrel.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
(I know it was a DA move, so if you feel the need to tell me so, go right ahead)
I've been incident free (mostly) until tonight after an afternoon of shooting my Thompson Renegade.
Cleaning it is where I ran into trouble.
I don't know if it's right or wrong, but I usually stick a patch over a .45 cal cleaning brush and it seems to do a nice job. Tonight I used some rags, cutting them into appropriately sized pieces and pumping water through the barrel.
I ran a dry patch down it to make sure the water was out and it had a little brown gunk on it so I decided to run one more "patch".
I must have cut it a bit big because it stuck about halfway down the barrel, and refused to budge in either direction.
I pulled as hard as I could and darned if I didn't pull the brush right off....not the threads but ahead of the threads.
Now I have a brush wrapped in a rag stuck halfway down my barrel.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
(I know it was a DA move, so if you feel the need to tell me so, go right ahead)