Cleaning Kibler Woodsrunner?

[rbeave]

Is your barrel a GM or Rice?

.50 cal so gm I presume

 

[Smokey Plainsman]

Peroxide is corrosive, no place for it in a barrel. Just my opinion.

Truly.

Many have extolled the virtues of these wild chemical cocktails for bore cleaning.

I have never seen or tried one that cleans any better than warm water and a drip of Dawn.

 

[planefixer da50]

get some bamboo toothpicks much stronger n less prone to breakage.

 

[NavyDoc76-80]

You don't need to remove the barrel to clean the rifle, just the lock. Instructions in post above. Except I use Ballistol instead of WD-40. If you happen to get some water in the barrel channel, blow it out with compressed air.

However, maybe you might want to occasionally, say once a year or so, to remove the barrel to clean and oil the underside, to continue protecting it from corrosion.

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[Dusty_Traveler]

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[Smokey Plainsman]

get some bamboo toothpicks much stronger n less prone to breakage.

I’ve heard this called “chinaman’s grass” in older periods.

 

[Osseon]

I have a kibler colonial assembled by Dave Person (a master gun maker). He taught me that removing the barrel for cleaning is no issue. The way he told me to do it is remove the barrel pins always in one direction and insert them into the same direction. Once the barrel is removed put the barrel into a bucket of soapy warm/hot water with the flash hole submerged.

Run a patch up and down the barrel until you effectively make a water pump. The water will suck up the barrel through the flash hole up to the end of the barrel. Repeat this until the water coming out of the flash hole is no longer dark (confirming all fouling is removed).

Once that is finished, remove the barrel, dry the outside. Put a mop down the barrel to get as much water out then a few patches. Then finish up with a patch of oil. (I do usually like 2 dry patches, patch of wd-40, then a dry patch, then a patch of ballistol)

The lock can be thrown into the bucket, swished around. Remove it, use a brush to work all the nooks and springs. If extra dirty add a single squirt of ballistol to make it milky white as you brush. Pat in a towel, spray the nooks and springs in wd-40, shake it. Wipe it with a towel. Finish by adding ballistol to the moving parts and wiping away access.

Alternatively you can just not remove the barrel, break a toothpick in half, insert in flash pan, tap with a mallet. Then pour water/ballistol or water/dish soap mix down the barrel, plug it with your thumb, tilt the gun back and forth and pour out. Repeat until water is no longer dirty. Run a mop down the barrel a few times. Now repeat the list above.

I've removed my barrel many times and I think wearing out the lugs might be a myth as long as you are careful.

 

[smoothshooter]

So I just purchased a prestine kibler woodsrunner, almost too pretty to shoot. wanted to know what's everyone's approach to cleaning woods runner. the barrel is pinned in and I assume I'd have to remove the barrel etc. I've cleaned many other BP rifles...

Do not remove the barrel for any reason unless it is to put a coat of wax or very light coat Sheath as a rust preventive.
Then reassemble and never remove it again.