I need a new wooden ramrod for my pedersoli .45 cal frontier rifle. The barrel is 39" long and the old ramrod is about 39 3/4" long with a brass screw in piece on one end and a solid brass piece on the other. Anyone know a good place to find one.??????
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Ramrod help
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I have 2 ramrods for my .32. The ramrod that came with the gun was manure and cracked. I pulled the ends off and put then on a hickory rod. I also bought a wonder rod, removed an end, cut the rod to fit the rifle and put the end back on and pinned it.
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Go to VTIgunparts.com. I've dealt with them before to replace parts of my Frontier Rifle that I have broken before. Nice people. However, a new ramrod costs $29. A quick fix would just find an appropriate sized dowel rod from your local Home Depot. Maybe look in to getting a hickory rod from another supplier as well. You can later add attachments to the ends or just leave it plain wood. You want a range rod for all that "hard" work like pulling balls and cleaning anyway.
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for saftey's sake, you should go with a hickory rod. i've had dowels with run out break and nearly skewer my hand.
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Actually two people's opinion! I will never use a doll rod ram rod again due to spliting and embeding into the wrist.
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I’ve bought a couple of hickory rods from Dixie gunworks. I just stuck the ends of my old rod on the new one. Dixie actually sent me a replacement hickory stick when the first one I bought didn’t have straight grain.
I'm not sure what is meant by "didn't have straight grain", but if it is grain runout that is being described it is a good thing that you didn't use it.
Grain runout is caused by the outside diameter of the rod cutting thru the grain of the wood.
It produces something that looks like this:
Those lines are produced by the "rings" in the lumber and many of the dowels that are commonly bought at the hardware stores will have them.
When large amounts of load are applied to the rod to ram a ball into a muzzleloader the wood will often split along these rings leaving a razor sharp dagger to stab the user.
Bowed or bent ramrods which do NOT have grain runout are quite serviceable even though they are bowed.
In fact, many people like to see some bow in their ramrods because it causes the ramrod to "bind up" a little when it is replaced into the thimbles.
This in effect, keeps the ramrod from sliding out while walking or shooting.
Grain runout is caused by the outside diameter of the rod cutting thru the grain of the wood.
It produces something that looks like this:
Those lines are produced by the "rings" in the lumber and many of the dowels that are commonly bought at the hardware stores will have them.
When large amounts of load are applied to the rod to ram a ball into a muzzleloader the wood will often split along these rings leaving a razor sharp dagger to stab the user.
Bowed or bent ramrods which do NOT have grain runout are quite serviceable even though they are bowed.
In fact, many people like to see some bow in their ramrods because it causes the ramrod to "bind up" a little when it is replaced into the thimbles.
This in effect, keeps the ramrod from sliding out while walking or shooting.
