AM I IN TROUBLE!?

[mmahlock]

:bow: Woah. From your original description I just assumed (there's that word again) that your rod was wood. I've never seen a metal one break. You must have been putting some serious weight and torque on it. Good luck.

This is the style of patch worm I prefer.

This type I'd stay away from. I've had no good luck with this style.

 

[roundball]

Interesting...I've tried the type that has a couple of opposing thin bent wires, and tried the ones in your photo...for me the corkscrew style have worked the best, particularly in TC rifles with their patent breeches...the long cork screw type gets down into the patent breech taper where the shporter/wider opposing pair of thin wires won't reach...admittedly, I've only had a patch come off a couple of times, but they've done fine.

 

[fho]

Musketman:

could the gun have a short breech plug in it? I mean that the breech plug doesn't go all the way to the end of the barrel, just an idea.

Olie

 

[musketman]

Musketman:

could the gun have a short breech plug in it? I mean that the breech plug doesn't go all the way to the end of the barrel, just an idea.

Olie

Yes it could, this would also expose sharp threads and/or a gap to carch a patch, there is now real way to know without taking it off and having a look unless he bends a long wire at the tip and probes for a gap...

 

[jderrick]

That dirty nasty wad shot out of the barrel, all the way across the garage, and left a black mark on the wall. It flew pretty straight as well!!!!! :shocked2:

Well of course it shot straight -- that patch was rifled!

 

[FallingCrows]

Don't feel to bad.
I go a bullet stuck in my lyman. The Breechplug is non-removalable unlike inlines, so that wasn't an option

I try soaking it in Hot, Hot water to loosen the grease - didn't work. Then I broke my ramrod using the bullet puller screw. The screw chewed the bullet up to much for it to grab on to it.
I try 125 lb of compressed air from a air compressor. That didn't work!

Then after about 2 hours. I cut the head off of a deck screw. Screwed one end in to my broken ramrod and the other in to the stuck bullet. POP, out it came with all the rusty water and wet black powder. It took another 2 hours to clean out all the manure and to make sure there wasn't a chance for rust to set in.

Next time I'll empty it in to a stump in the woods before the season ends.

- FallingCrows