Hi, I recently had to unload a ball from my flintlock rifle, and it was a pain. I ended up breaking the cleaning rod inside the barrel along with the lead ball. I finally removed it, but I wondered if one of those CO2 unloaders was worth the money.
Co2 unloaders
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Type “C02” in search function - you’ll find pages about them.
Yes, they are worth it.
yes quick and easy
Or get a cheap pancake air compressor that will discharge RB's plus have plenty of other uses.
You do have to be certain that the flint lock tip properly seals off the touch hole. A needle inflator valve that is tapered to the touch hole seems to work well. A soft rubber tip also works. Some the touch hole liners that are slotted are very difficult to seal off. CO2 dischargers do work.
I carry both a ball screw that I can screw onto my ram rod and I also carry a CO2 ball discharger. I purchased the CO2 discharger shown on the right about 30 years ago and it served me well when needed. I purchased the one on the left
about 4 years ago because it had a bigger capacity CO2 cylinder. The newer one is for filling bicycle tires and did not come with any attachments for ML guns. I made the flintlock nozzle from K&S brass tubing that I soldered together and soldered it to a tire screw on valve. I put a small leather washer on the end to act as a seal. You need to remove the Schrader valve - Works great
Just stay away from the TC one, it takes a special, read expensive, cartridge
I have used them in the past, below is one demonstrated:
They work. Also if you know for a fact you didn't dry ball and it just won't go off, thin, green cheap bottle rocket fuse works great. Sprinkle in a bit of 4f twist in fuse and light. Old timer taught me that when I was a kid.
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I’ve used CO2 cartridges for years. Walk the trails at various Rhondys and usually have to use it at leas once. One cartridge work for about three dry balls. Had one time it didn’t work. It was a complete double very tight load. It comes ready to use for a perc. but a flint adapter can be purchased.
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I know a grease gun works.
Does a bicycle pump work?
Or one of the cheapo tire pumps like you plug into the cigarette lighter?
Does a bicycle pump work?
Or one of the cheapo tire pumps like you plug into the cigarette lighter?
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They work.
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Them Co2 one sometimes do not work.
A pancake compressor form Harbor Freight always works.
A pancake compressor form Harbor Freight always works.
That's if you have a 120 volt outlet on a tree somewhere near the rondyvoo. I've never had any trouble pulling dry balls with a good fitting ball puller. Always someone else's dry balls of course!
They will work with wally world airgun co2 tubes just takes about a dollars worth of dimes above the cartridge.
Oh, well, at Fort Massac we had one of our old working rods break off at the tip and the jag. We didn't have a screw tip remover that would start in the wood left in the tip. I forgot to put the flint lock touch hole plug in my collection of tools, but I did have a pan charger full of 4F powder. There charges from the pan primer moved the blocked jag a little bit, but the large tough hole let out too much pressure. I then made sure we used about six charges with maybe 1 or two more for bit more boost. This time the charge drove the tip and jag into the ground. Thank goodness for the hard pan soil that we were able to dig it out of the ground. Yes, the tip was cross pinned ( twice) with the rod broken off at the edge of the tip. Another bore blockage successfully removed.
Man, I drag enough stuff to the range so a pancake compressor from Harbor Freight is over the top.
The Maine NMLRA rep after seeing me blow out balls,
at shoots of the "First Congress of New England" schedule made a 20-pound fire extinguisher into an unloading tool. Flintlock or percussion it worked unreal!
at shoots of the "First Congress of New England" schedule made a 20-pound fire extinguisher into an unloading tool. Flintlock or percussion it worked unreal!
Yes they work !
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