seized touch-hole liner

[Many Klatch]

Uncle Grizz, I can think of no reason to remove the touch hole liner unless it is shot out so badly that the ball falls out. I have never removed a liner in any of my guns in 20+ years of shooting. After all if my Bess with a simple drill hole for a touch hole doesn't need to be enlarged, why would I need to remove a liner. Those things are tricky enough to get in the first time without having to remove them every time you clean a gun.

When I clean a flinter, I take 1/2 a toothpick (if its the Bess then I use a matchstick) and drive it into the touch hole with a hammer. Then I fill the barrel with hot soapy water and clean appropriately. After the cleaning is done, I pull the toothpick out and dry the barrel with a couple of dry patches and then oil. No need to pull the liner.

Many Klatch

 

[Jumpshot]

I don't understand why you guys find it so 'tricky' to re-install the touch hole liner. I've been removing and re-installing the liners on my Ped. guns every time I clean them (I screw in an adapter with a plastic tube attached to make it easy to flush out the bore) for years because it's so simple. The liners on my guns come out and go back in as smooth as silk. I never realized so many other people were having problems with this.

 

[tg]

I don't think there is anything tricky about it it is just not something that needs to be done, few custom builders leave a liner that is removable and few longtime flint shooters use this type, the liner considered to be the best around now is filed flush when installed, the liners in originals were not removable, if some folks want to remove them that is fine, but it is best not to put this forth as a "must" for the benefit of new shooters, they should be privilage to fact not opinion as much as possible.

 

[Jumpshot]

I don't think there is anything tricky about it...

Well, according to several people in this thread, apparently it is tricky. That's news to me.

I understand your point. I'm not recommending anyone else do it, beginner or otherwise, and I'm not debating how PC it is to remove the liner, or even to have a liner in the first place (they're Pedersolis, after all; I realize the only thing PC about them is the fact that a piece of lead comes out the end). I'm just saying my experience is apparently different than everyone else here; I've been removing and re-installing them for years without any trouble. It's never taken more than a few turns of the screwdriver.

 

[Uncle Grizz]

Thanks a lot to all of you.

It seems the opinion of the majority is not to remove the vent liner and clean it up after each shooting session but only when it needs a replacement.
From now it is my new philosophy...less useless work !!!
Thanks again.
Uncle Grizz.