I have found on a few guns, including my own rifle, that the trigger guard pin lug was blocking the use of a longer rod, and on some others, the hole was just not drilled deep enough. On a couple I was able to trim the lug back, or re-drill for a new pin in a lower more rearward location. On my gun, the maker drilled a tad short, and the upper part of the lug blocked going deeper. I re-drilled the RR hole a little deeper, after trimming the lug and now have plenty of rod to work with. You would have to check yours and decide for yourself what might work. In some cases, there is nothing that can be done but to live with it as is. I will not have a ramrod protruding beyond the muzzle, if at all possible. When in deep brush, it can become a fork to catch anything in it's path. One could concievably rip out the upper thimble, in an extreme case.