That is a pretty good breech plug tool set up you have. I use my heavy bench vise to clamp the barrel in pads and forge a wrench to fit the breech plug. When clamping the barrel make sure it is clear of the threaded area the plug screws into.
Blockage between cap nipple and bore.
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It’s just plain old table scraps with a couple of mill cuts to fit a barrel. The trick to “getter out” projects is a push, pull with the Billings wrenches or large tap handles.
Yep, some idiot may have dumped 100 gr. of Bullseye down the barrel!
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When one does clamp the barrel in a vise, be sure the jaws of the clamp are not compressing the barrel where there may be threads in the breech plug you are trying to remove.
Also be sure there is nothing that may impede the removal of the breech plug such as the drum in a CVA/Traditions breech or a touch hole liner that is threaded into the breech plug.
Also be sure there is nothing that may impede the removal of the breech plug such as the drum in a CVA/Traditions breech or a touch hole liner that is threaded into the breech plug.
I poured about 7 litres of boiling water down the barrel yesterday. Let it run out the nipple hole. Got some black stuff out. Blew air through nipple hole and shot another chunk of patch/wad out the barrel. Still no movement of the shot. I'm going to make a steel rod with chisel tip such as Grenadier1758 suggested and try to get the shot knocked loose. If that doesn't work...breech plug removal.
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The OP describe it in his first post....."A new to me EIG-Italy 44cal rifle"
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I'm excited to claim victory! Grenadier1758 thank you and all of you others who offered suggestions. Grenadier1758, the chisel pointed rod did it. 5/16" steel rod ground evenly to have a centered chisel point worked great. I did the 1/4 turn and light smack with hammer all the way around a couple times. Then by hand several more rotations and poured a decent amount of shot out the barrell. Re-inserted the chisel rod and several more rotations got a bunch more out. (The first pour resulted in a bunch of shot rolling into the expansion joint in the driveway. The shot in the pic shows about 2/3 of what was in there.) Ran another 4 litres of boiling water and dish soap down the barrel. Rinsed, blew and dried. The result is in the pictures below. Any more advice before I start busting caps?
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Well, @rhr1956 described the firearm as a rifle. It has rifle architecture with front and rear sights. The bore is smooth. You can see a picture of the complete firearm in his other thread asking for a suggested load for his "rifle". The proper terminology for this particular EIG 44 caliber smooth bored gun is a smooth rifle, which is what I have been calling it.
We are just waiting for the OP to get that block of oxidized shot out of the breech so he can go and shoot it.
Good grief. @rhr1956. You've already gotten 4 pages of advice on this thread and solved your problem long before we stretched this thread to 20 pages. We've kept the advice on this thread to most of it being pretty useful.
Run your borescope back down the barrel to make sure that you have all that shot out and your chambered breech is clean. Look for signs of pitting where that shot was lodged. Might be a little pitting. Finish your cleaning and dry the barrel. Use some rust inhibiting oil (Barricade) to protect it until you are ready to go to the range. Get the smooth rifle reassembled. Gather up the shooting components. Go ahead and get a new nipple. Are you going to try some shot? Get your #11 percussion caps.
Put a cap on your unloaded gun and fire at a blade of grass or something that will move to show that the flash channel is clear.
Set your adjustable measure for 50 grains of powder by volume. If there is pitting by the breech add a wad of you 50 grains volume of cornmeal to lift the ball above the potting.
Cap and fire.
Repeat.
Let us know what happens.
Run your borescope back down the barrel to make sure that you have all that shot out and your chambered breech is clean. Look for signs of pitting where that shot was lodged. Might be a little pitting. Finish your cleaning and dry the barrel. Use some rust inhibiting oil (Barricade) to protect it until you are ready to go to the range. Get the smooth rifle reassembled. Gather up the shooting components. Go ahead and get a new nipple. Are you going to try some shot? Get your #11 percussion caps.
Put a cap on your unloaded gun and fire at a blade of grass or something that will move to show that the flash channel is clear.
Set your adjustable measure for 50 grains of powder by volume. If there is pitting by the breech add a wad of you 50 grains volume of cornmeal to lift the ball above the potting.
Cap and fire.
Repeat.
Let us know what happens.
Looking at his pictures, he has a LOT of pitting. Shoot it and see how it performs is all you can do.
Smooth rifle it is!
Powder, cornmeal, ball, bang. Sounds delicious!
From one of your last pics, it appears you have a patent breech. The pic shows a smaller powder chamber, the flash hole and the shoulder that joins the full diameter of the barrel. Get a 30 caliber Bore brush that fits your cleaning rod and run it down after cleaning the full bore. I put a cleaning patch on my brush. You have to keep that patent breech clean.
Thanks!
I get MAP....Murphy's, Alcohol and Peroxide.
Please clarify the acronym for us dense novices, ATF?
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