Hello friends.
I'm nearly finished building my first kit pistol, a Pendersoli Kentucky .54 flintlock, and as things come together my mind wonders off to think about things that will make shooting and cleaning this new toy easier. One of my upcoming projects will be to build a loading stand for it, but that's for another post!
My only other flintlock is my Lyman GPR with a hooked breach and barrel release pins, so when I clean that rifle barrel I remove it from the stock and use the hot water method. Seems to be the case that most custom rifle barrels are pinned in place, but I sure do like the convenience of being able to remove the barrel for cleaning.
This pistol barrel can be removed, but it's a bigger task involving removal and replacement of a very small threaded screw at the muzzle end that I fear will get stripped out over time (plus the larger screw that goes into the trigger plate underneath).
I looked into these Ox-Yoke "black-out" flush kits for cleaning muzzleloaders and thought they were pretty neat. All you do is remove the nipple or the vent hole liner on your barrel, screw this little kit into that hole, and it has a rubber hose that you then put into your hot water for cleaning. Ox-Yoke Muzzleloaders Black Out Flush Cleaning System
They sell different size adapters for different size vent hole liners or nipples, but I've no way to know what size my vent hole liner might be. It is not in the Pendersoli parts diagram/list either, but I'm hoping that someone here may have the same pistol and may know the size??
Does anyone know the size? RMC sells that cleaner in 1/2-28, 1/4-28, 6.1mm, 6.75mm, and 10-32. I have a caliper for measuring the outer diameter of the liner, but I'm not sure if that's how they size these things?
I'm nearly finished building my first kit pistol, a Pendersoli Kentucky .54 flintlock, and as things come together my mind wonders off to think about things that will make shooting and cleaning this new toy easier. One of my upcoming projects will be to build a loading stand for it, but that's for another post!
My only other flintlock is my Lyman GPR with a hooked breach and barrel release pins, so when I clean that rifle barrel I remove it from the stock and use the hot water method. Seems to be the case that most custom rifle barrels are pinned in place, but I sure do like the convenience of being able to remove the barrel for cleaning.
This pistol barrel can be removed, but it's a bigger task involving removal and replacement of a very small threaded screw at the muzzle end that I fear will get stripped out over time (plus the larger screw that goes into the trigger plate underneath).
I looked into these Ox-Yoke "black-out" flush kits for cleaning muzzleloaders and thought they were pretty neat. All you do is remove the nipple or the vent hole liner on your barrel, screw this little kit into that hole, and it has a rubber hose that you then put into your hot water for cleaning. Ox-Yoke Muzzleloaders Black Out Flush Cleaning System
They sell different size adapters for different size vent hole liners or nipples, but I've no way to know what size my vent hole liner might be. It is not in the Pendersoli parts diagram/list either, but I'm hoping that someone here may have the same pistol and may know the size??
Does anyone know the size? RMC sells that cleaner in 1/2-28, 1/4-28, 6.1mm, 6.75mm, and 10-32. I have a caliper for measuring the outer diameter of the liner, but I'm not sure if that's how they size these things?
