T/C charge pocket question.

[Stony Broke]

Interesting

 

[smo]

Great photos ,Thanks for posting!

 

[Griz44Mag]

Super cool cutdown. This one seems to have a lot bigger flash channel than my Green Mountain barrel.
From the looks of the tight fit on the threads and zero gaps on the barrel fit, it would take a major amount of torque to break that thing loose from the barrel. I had never seen one of the special tips for cleaning, interesting. I just use a good rapid hydraulic flush with hot soapy water, seems to do a great job. I have checked a couple of times by working a pipe cleaner down the nipple hole but never get anything out, so I stopped doing that. Thank you for going to the effort of cutting this, bet that was a chore in itself!

 

[smo]

Griz 44,

The pic I posted was used in a Green Mountain barrel, a .62 smoothbore 1" across the flats.

It is mounted on a TC Renegade stock...

Don't even ask.....

 

[Griz44Mag]

I was just starting to ask, but now I won't.......

 

[Bighorserider]

One thing that is important with TCs is to use their pointed jag for cleaning. A flat ended one pushes fouling into the rounded breech and messes things up.

 

[hawkeye2]

Thank you for the time to do this and post the pictures. They should clear up a lot of questions, past, present and future.

 

[Cowboy]

Was at the Spring shoot at Friendship in 2016. Was my first trip there and decided to check out all the vendors on commercial row.

I stopped by the gunsmith shop and befriended one of those fine fellas. There were three of them working there but off.

One was solely removing breech plugs and hardening frizzen’s. Every time someone dry balled on the range they had to be escorted by a range officer to the gunsmith shop. No C02 discharger’s, No pulling the ball, No powder under the nipple to shoot the ball out!

The only way to retrieve a dry ball was to pull the breech plug and with a heavy brass rod they’d knock the ball out from the breech end. They take safety very seriously on the Walter Cline range. Any FTF’s are summarily escorted off the firing line by one of the range officers.

Anyway, I watched this poor fella remove I don’t know how many breech plugs within an hours time?

He’d vice the barrel and with a large crescent wrench and cheater bar he’d put his full weight on that thing to break a good number of those TC barrel breech plugs loose! I saw it first hand. I kid you not!! They can be extremely stubborn to remove.

Anyway, that’s my story and I’m sticking with it! Lol

No, everything I stated above is definitely true.

Respectfully, Cowboy

 

[Stony Broke]

Those TC breech plugs can be really tough to get loose and you have to put some real effort into it. I have sure seen a lot of barrels and breech plugs gnarled up from guys trying to take them apart without the proper equipment. You put one of those barrels into a 4" vice with some padded jaws added, and you better have that vice really fastened down tight or you might just rip it loose from your bench.

 

[Don Steele]

Idaholewis...
THANK YOU for taking the time and effort to cut that T/C breechplug and post those great pictures here. I've been enjoying T/C rifles among others, for over 40 yrs. In all that time I've seen and participated in discussions about the T/C "patent breech". Those discussions often include lots of drawings...this is the first time I've seen an actual T/C breechplug cut in half and photographed.

 

[Cowboy]

Those TC breech plugs can be really tough to get loose . You put one of those barrels into a 4" vice with some padded jaws added, and you better have that vice really fastened down tight or you might just rip it loose from your bench.

The smith shop at Friendship basically had two working areas in the building. One main entrance dead center of both areas. If ya turned to your left they did all small repairs. If ya looked to your right they had that vice mounted on a steel stand about waist high which was bolted to the concrete floor. It was positioned right in the middle of that work area so the smith had plenty of room to maneuver that large wrench and cheater bar. He also had a cut off 55 gallon drum with some oil in it to quench frizzen’s in after they were heated up to the desired temperature to be hardened.

Anyway, I apologize for giving a verbal tour of the Smith Shop! lol

Respectfully, Cowboy’s off topic again! His mind wonders like he does??

 

[nhmoose]

Maybe you should keep notes so you can remember what you said....

I owned not only a gun shop but one with an 07 license.
I also sold barrels on the net as in a barrel supply company

Texan mouthing off it seems? How many have you pulled? How many have you sold after fixing?

I know what I said do you?