Had not noticed this before....

[Salty]

Could you explain ? I'm curious how removing and reinstalling a screw could be an issue.

I have no problem since installing the thumbscrew. In fact it really aids the cleaning process for those, like me who are picky about the chamber being cleaned occasionally.

 

[Grenadier1758]

Could you explain ? I'm curious how removing and reinstalling a screw could be an issue.

The factory supplied screw in the T/C breech, that they called a clean out screw, was very soft. A little bit of fouling in the threads would really tighten that little screw up and the slot would be quickly ruined. T/C did not include instructions on the use of never seizing lubricant or the limit on tightening that screw. In short order it became unusable, and the breech had to be reworked under warranty. T/C redesigned the breech plug to put the manufacturing access hole and blind plug on the other side of the breech without any slot to imply that it was removable.

Jake and Sam Hawken did not put such plugs in the snails (breeches) of their plains rifles. You do see a screw in the end of a drum in some of the drum and nipple percussion locks.

 

[Flintlock Whiskey]

With the chambered breech, there is a cavity that you can fill with powder in the unlikely event that you have forgotten the prime instruction and didn't load powder before you loaded the ball.

I can see how that would be handy.

 

[Kansas Jake]

I’ve never removed a “clean out” screw my 45 year old TC Hawken. It cleans up just fine by pulling the nipple and cleaning in a bucket of water.

 

[BadDaditood]

What a boring topic

Hopefully someone will get a ball stuck soon…

 

[TDM]

After a few more pages, maybe…

 

[Dale Lilly]

My method is even better than azmntman’s. But my recipe will cost you $7.50.

$ 9.35 by venmo; I want to buy a new Rolls Royce. Polecat [Hint: diet pepsi]