Shotgun cleaning ?

[c.jacob.cottam]

I have a Pedersoli 12g side by side shotgun that i purchased recently and am having some problems cleaning it. I purchased a 12g cleaning jag but I can only clean the right barrel and not the left. I believe the left barrel has a modified choke and not interchangeable.

How do I clean this barrel if the jag will not enter when patched?

Anyone else have this problem and what was the solution.

 

[Roy]

you may have to turn down the jag a bit.. chuck it in a drill and you can run it against a file or sandpaper backed by a board.

 

[Canerod]

Roy beat me to it. I have several guns that are nominally the same caliber, but mike out differently. I buy a new OS jag from Eastern Maine Shooting Supply for each one and turn it down until I get the right fit. Just get a second jag and turn it, or turn the one you have and use a second patch on the unchoked bbl.

 

[Dave K]

Also to help, is to use a 12 ga. brush. Place your cleaning patches on the brush. With water on the patch, just scrub away, until clean. Use the brush to hold you drying and lubricating patches as well, once the bore is clean.

 

[ohio ramrod]

I use both a bore brush and a simple piece of cloth wraped around a worm to clean my SxS . I just rip a fairly long strip of flannel , wrap an end to my worm and stuff the rag down the barrel, rotate it several times to clean the breach area. This is done using soap and warm water. Followed by a dry strip or two of flannel. Then some old military gun oil to protect the bore.The worm was included when I bought the Pedroseli back in the early seventies.I hope you get as much enjoyment out of yours as I have mine.

 

[Stumpkiller]

Tow worm would work.

I use a mop fitting and soapy water for my smoothies rather than a jag and patch. You can wash the mop out indefinately. To oil it I put a piece of plastic over a second (dry) mop and put the oiled patch over that. You have to tuck the corner of the patch under the mop threads on the rod or it will pull off into the bore.

 

[JackAubrey]

I second the bore moppe. I have also wrapped cloth around a bore brush till one day the brush pulled free of it's base. The rod came out with the base attached but the brush was down near the breech.I liked to never got that thing out. I finally got a long piece of wire and made a "shepherds crook" at the end I was running down bore. I managed to work this into the bristles and grip it enough to extract the brush. I found the moppe does a fine job on a smooth bore any way. Best regards,JA

 

[stubshaft]

I use the old style "tornado" brush. It won't snag anything and has a loop at the end that I can attach a patch to and swab the bore.

 

[paulvallandigham]

Jack: The brush needs to be turned clockwise as you move it either up or down a smoothbore barrel, so that the bristles turn over, on the change, and don't bind against the bore.

If you use a large patch on the brush, there is very little contact between the bristles and the bore. Just make sure that patch is damp and it does the cleaning, while the bristles underneath knock anything stuck to the sides of the bore loose.

I use 3" square cotton flannel patches on my bore bristles, on both my 20 ga. and 12 ga. guns without a problem, ONCE I learned about turning that bristle brush as I worked it up and down.

Since the wires that hold the bristles together are screwed in to the brass base in a clockwise manner, Turning the bristles clockwise insures that the wires do Not back out. I know one man who used to use epoxy on those bases to give him added security, but when he found out how the rest of had learned to use the bore bristle with a cleaning patch, he followed our example, and announced that he was no longer having the problems, nor the anxiety in using his bore bristle, and thanked us. :shocked2: :idunno: :hmm: :surrender: :hatsoff:

 

[c.jacob.cottam]

Thanks for all the responses and advise from the community. I knew that there had to be an answer to my problem.

:bow:

 

[smoothshooter]

Try using 100% cotton tee shirt material ( preferrably white ) wrapped around a slightly undersized copper bore brush . If you leave some loose material hanging off of the end it does a better job at getting more of the fouling out of the "corners" where the breech plug meets the barrel. The added softness of this material (wash it before cutting it up into patches to remove the sizing) makes it super absorbent and allows it to reach every nook and cranny if worked properly . When giving it a few twists around down in the breech area, reverse twisting a couple of turns reverses the tail end of the rag for a better cleaning. Don't reverse more than acouple of twists or you risk unscrewing your brush from the rod , with much unpleasantness to follow . Smoothshooter