I don't know if this has been discussed before, if it has my apologys.
I lost a cleaning patch in the barrel of one of my rifles, I tried a regular patch puller to no avail, just couldnt get it. Next I tried a ball puller, no good. The next try was with a small 22 cal bore cleaning brush. That too failed.
The patch had wadded up into a ball down in the powder chamber. I could feel it but could not grab it.
Desperation led me to try and make a tool. Realy simple. Took a spring out of a ball point pen, cut the first coil off one end, sharpend the end really to a needle point with a file. Then screwed the unsharpend end part way on to the ball puller screw. Worked first try the balled up patch was extracted.
OK I know some one is going to ask for pictures and I would love to post pictures but photo bucket seems to be unusable to me my computer thinks it is a hostile entity.
I hope you can figure out the pen spring trick from my description, it works like a charm.
I lost a cleaning patch in the barrel of one of my rifles, I tried a regular patch puller to no avail, just couldnt get it. Next I tried a ball puller, no good. The next try was with a small 22 cal bore cleaning brush. That too failed.
The patch had wadded up into a ball down in the powder chamber. I could feel it but could not grab it.
Desperation led me to try and make a tool. Realy simple. Took a spring out of a ball point pen, cut the first coil off one end, sharpend the end really to a needle point with a file. Then screwed the unsharpend end part way on to the ball puller screw. Worked first try the balled up patch was extracted.
OK I know some one is going to ask for pictures and I would love to post pictures but photo bucket seems to be unusable to me my computer thinks it is a hostile entity.
I hope you can figure out the pen spring trick from my description, it works like a charm.