I like to take my guns down and wipe and oil pretty regularly. Today was my ‘make and mend sunday.’
Ran patches down, no sign of rust, every thing clean. But, I was using a spring wire worm that just screws on to the plain end of the rod. I had strips of flannel greased with lard and ran down. Pulled back and the worm slipped off.
I’ve never had this happen and had an oh manure what now moment. It got worse when I could do get it to fit back on the rod.
Uuuugggghhhh.
Am I going to have to pull the breech? Do want to do that
Shoot it out, not good option
Ran another worm down and caught the cloth, but there was a few minutes I was, shall we say, concerned.
Ran patches down, no sign of rust, every thing clean. But, I was using a spring wire worm that just screws on to the plain end of the rod. I had strips of flannel greased with lard and ran down. Pulled back and the worm slipped off.
I’ve never had this happen and had an oh manure what now moment. It got worse when I could do get it to fit back on the rod.
Uuuugggghhhh.
Am I going to have to pull the breech? Do want to do that
Shoot it out, not good option
Ran another worm down and caught the cloth, but there was a few minutes I was, shall we say, concerned.