I haven't used a ball puller in years and not because I don't dryball! I shoot them out or blow them out with compressed air. The only loose screws around my guns are me!
Well yah know I hadn't thought about prayer for dry balling, I ask for every thing else from him, Great suggestion !I live right?
I had just posted that I've done it twice. I was wrong. Your comment reminded me of another time, back about 1997 or so, I dryballed a .32 CVA squirrel rifle. Had only been shooting BP for a few years and didn't know what to do. Took it to Medley's bait shop and Barry Medley had one of those CO2 doodads. He blew the ball out and it went straight down the middle of the store. Good thing it was after hours. It hit the Easton arrow display and penetrated the cardboard display box the arrows were in. Only time I've seen one of those in use. And was the first time he ever used one.On the very rare occasion that I dry ball, I use a CO2 discharger, never has failed to expel the patched ball no matter how tight the patch is.
That come out fast and hard most the time. A must have IMHO
The "stealth method" is to have an extra rifle on hand and just, nonchalantly, act like you changed your mind about using the one you dry balled. Just say it doesn't feel right and you won't be lying. SWI need to invent a stealth method of dry ball retrieval so I don't have to endure the humiliation (when not if) it happens! I still hold the title of most dry balls in a single match, a dubious State Record at best! I'd like to blame it on old age but this happened 35 years ago while still a young man. Didn't drink, smoke or do drugs so I was in a pickle for excuse generation!
Count them................. five ,I kid you not in a timed fire Sihouette match where the pressure apparently turned by brains to Oat Meal for a bit.
I'd get off about five shots and things would be going like gang busters and then Murphy would show up with his Monkey wrench and pitch it into my gear box !
It sure slows you down that's for sure!
I can't seem to interest any one in attempting to take my record away from me !
I just cobbled together a ball puller to leave at the range where we have our monthly club shoots. Seems like about every other month a ball gets rammed without a charge. I bought track of the wolf screw pullers as they seem to be most likely to get ahold and wrestle a ball back out when others fail. I’m not a good ball pulling man, but several others are. I’m hoping this will help clear a dry ball at our monthly shoots. It’s just about dido of what was helpful for you.We all have our own methods, mostly similar to somebody else's. But I did manage to stick a dry ball that I couldn't seem to shoot out, so I went home and took a 7/16 steel rod 9the muzzle loader was 50) and I drilled one in end of the rod and silver soldered 1/ 8th inch bit into it and then turn it around and drilled a hole in the other end of the rod and silver soldered in a sheetrock screw. I coated the rod with electrical tape, and then using a pair of vice grips at the very outside end I proceeded to drill a hole into the round ball. When I was satisfied with that I turned the rod around and placed a length of 1 inch pipe, about four inches long, over it and with the vice grips at the outside end. Using the vice grips, I screwed the sheetrock screw in almost through it probably, and using the pipe for a slide hammer against the vice grips it came right out. I've carried that tool to every muzzleloader shoot I've went to and have never used it again. The only thing wrong you would have to make one for every caliber, buying a rod that was small enough you could cover it with electrical tape.
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About 120psi on the air compressor, hold a rubber tipped air nozzle against the flash hole and let her rip. I've had balls fly across my street using the compressor. There's 22 acres of cornfield over there so no danger except to maybe a corn stalk or two.
I've never dryballed thank God, but I've emptied the gun many times after hunting season ended and I didn't fire the gun. Never did this method, not work.
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