really really stuck ramrod

[Itegorm]

I have no clue how our ancestors coped with this problem when they were alone in the frontier. Surely it happened to them too.

More than likely they just used a tow worm with a bit of tow wrapped around it to clean. I have yet to get one severly stuck, I have had them slip off the rod before though and they were easilly retrieved by pulling them out with another worm.
This is the type of worm I am refering to.

 

[flm_shooter]

And that is exactly what I had been using all day with good results. I just wanted to do a 'better' cleaning at home...

 

[Blizzard of '93]

I dry patch after every shot, have to 'ease' the jag back and forth an inch or so at a time near the breech where fouling is crusty, I have had to pour water down the barrel and soak when I stuck ramrod to soften up and pull, I carry pliers in shooting bag.

 

[xxgrampa]

hoo-ray hoo-ray, knew you could do it...


..ttfn..grampa..

 

[Itegorm]

And that is exactly what I had been using all day with good results. I just wanted to do a 'better' cleaning at home...

At the risk of ribbing you a bit, if it ain't broke don't fx it. Glad to see you got the rob out. I have been using those little corkscrew worm exclusivly for a few years with no problems and my guns end up just as clean as any other way (They are all smoothbores, no rifles so I don't know about that direction).

 

[Black Hand]

I drill a cross hole in my wiping stick about an inch from the end large enough for a finish nail. This gives you a T-handle without needing to have a screw-end. And that finish nail weighs almost nothing compared to anything else. Just try to drill the hole across the grain. If you are the worrying kind, just glue a brass sleeve over the end before drilling the hole to minimize the possibility of splitting.

 

[FV Rago]

Did this at the first rondy I went to with Ol Leon many years ago. Dry patched and wham, stuck rod. Could not pull it out, did not know what to do so I just leaned over and told Leon, "hey, got my stick with a dry patch stuck at the bottom of my barrel."

He reached over and pulled a little cup out of his bag, "go fill this with water and pour it down your barrel" in typical greenhorn manner I said "Leon, then my barrels gonna be soaked" Leon "yup, then when the patch is out, gonna need to dry it out with some patches" he laughed "betcha not gonna do that again."

Well as soon as I got the water all the old farts just started hooten and hollerin.

Ol Leon was wrong about one thing, I've done it twice since then, but I'll never tell.


Oh yeh, by the way, what was Leon doing with a little cup for water in his possibles bag anyway?

 

[grey8833]

Fillmore:

Excuse me while I print that out. :bow:

Thanks for sharing, one more thing I don't have to figure out on my own.

Mike

 

[JacquesT]

Well done...I read throught he thread down to the happy conclusion...My advise would have been the same (small charge through the touch hole)...maybe a little less 4f for the first attempt...an other idea I had in the past but never tried is battery acid or some nasty stuff that eat up cotton fiber...if you can kill the patch then the problem should go away...not sure of effect on metal...

 

[Chaplain Dan]

I have shot them out by taking out the nipple and pouring in a few grains of powder..Good luck

 

[d.thomson]

I have taken out the nipple and poured a little bp in the flash chanel and shoot the jag out. Dont do what I did one time I didn't unscrew the rod from the jag and blew the rod down range and broke the rod. F.K.

 

[Bass]

Glad to hear it all worked out in the end! :applause: We used one of those c02 devices to get a ball out that had no powder, it worked great, and later shot a rod out with a little powder too. :redface: Nailed a tree with it, and just found splinters. :shocked2:

 

[Mad Professor]

I have taken out the nipple and poured a little bp in the flash chanel and shoot the jag out. Dont do what I did one time I didn't unscrew the rod from the jag and blew the rod down range and broke the rod. F.K.

Whenever I have to shoot out a jag I Ieave the ramrod connected and shoot staight up. It's sort of like shooting an arrow up into the air. Just don't loose track of it on the way back down.........

 

[PaulN/KS]

I had a stuck jag break off in the barrel and I shot it out with a few grains of powder.

 

[paco97]

I had the same problem this week, except my rod broke , so I wasn't atthe breach, but still only had about 2 in to grab onto. i just pouredwater down the barrel and soaked it for a couple hours and voila, pulled right out.

 

[redwing]

I have shot more than one out over the years. I don't think its a good idea however. The shooting out is a last resort. Some years back I stuck a rod in a nice East Tenn. F/L .32. I fired the rod and jag out by powdering thru the vent. Problem was the jag was not on the bottom of the breech. Now that fine little .32 has a small dent inside above the breech. It still shoots just fine but, you get the idea. :shake: