Papa Frinkle
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- Jun 26, 2018
So I just got done blasting some blanks through an m1816 conversion musket in celebration of the Fourth of July, and here I am at 1AM trying to clean it.
I would’ve been done a long time ago but on around the 15th patch I put through the barrel, the rod decides to get stuck. I’ve encountered this several times before and I’m sick of it. I’ve tried different patches, different lubes (oil, water, solvent, all saturated on the patch), different jags, making sure the patch isn’t wadded up before it goes in, and removing the nipple, but the problem still persists even across multiple muskets. All will be going fine and dandy with no sign of stuckage until bam, whatd’ya know I can’t get the sucker out with the force of 12 raging chimpanzees.
Do you guys have any tips on how to avoid this and how to solve it when it happens? This time happens to have been with a wooden rod so brute strength is not gonna work here. would blast it out with powder but I don’t want to go in to clean it again. Are there any other options? Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.
I would’ve been done a long time ago but on around the 15th patch I put through the barrel, the rod decides to get stuck. I’ve encountered this several times before and I’m sick of it. I’ve tried different patches, different lubes (oil, water, solvent, all saturated on the patch), different jags, making sure the patch isn’t wadded up before it goes in, and removing the nipple, but the problem still persists even across multiple muskets. All will be going fine and dandy with no sign of stuckage until bam, whatd’ya know I can’t get the sucker out with the force of 12 raging chimpanzees.
Do you guys have any tips on how to avoid this and how to solve it when it happens? This time happens to have been with a wooden rod so brute strength is not gonna work here. would blast it out with powder but I don’t want to go in to clean it again. Are there any other options? Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.