Stony Broke
32 Cal.
- Joined
- Jan 9, 2014
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Normally I use wood or fiberglass range rods and have a bunch of them with different sizes of jags attached. I had one that was a factory built hollow aluminum rod with a brass end to screw your jag into. I put a nice chunk of antler on one end and made it into an attractive and usable rod. It worked well until the other day when I was sighting in a TC Hawken at my range. I got the rifle sighted in and was patching out the bore a little to clean it up while the fouling was fresh, before I got it home for a good cleaning. One patch was pretty tight down by the breech plug end, and when I bumped the rod a little harder to get it to come out, the brass end detached itself from the rod. I managed to get it out by working some powder through the nipple hole and shooting it out ( it buried itself about 4 inches into the sand by my feet ?)
looking at the end piece, it had a shallow groove around it that I guess was where the rod must have been pressed into, but it wasn't really even pinned on. This sort of product is totally unacceptable to me !
looking at the end piece, it had a shallow groove around it that I guess was where the rod must have been pressed into, but it wasn't really even pinned on. This sort of product is totally unacceptable to me !