Blivetmaker
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Whatever can go wrong will..The date: Tuesday the 30th, Nov. 2005
I was just minding my own business and going about the perfectly normal routine of cleaning my Mortimer flinter after a completely satisfying shoot. While pump-flushing the barrel with soapy water I heard a click and felt a very unsettling vibration through the cleaning rod. Yep my barrel suddenly had a nice tight soaking wet cleaning patch/jag combo down all the way in a fouled barrel.
It was late. The chamber was full of water so no chance of shooting the jag out with a couple grains. As I live in a small town in Germany the neighbors would have had something to talk about and I'd have been out of the shooting business if I'd shot it out anyway. Luckily I had a jag that fit the rifle's wooden ramrod. I could at least rub out the water above the blockage. I poured oil
down the barrel and used a printer syringe to squirt oil into the area behind the vent liner which chose this evening to sieze up and resist all forms of removal. There was nothing for it but to wait until Frankonia opened the next day.
I went to sleep with visions of my poor barrel slowly rotting away. :shocked2: Their gunsmith and my oil unsiezed the recalcitrant vent liner. I bought and used a device that I'm not EVER going to be without again. A CO2 discharger. Worked like a charm but I'd advise caution. That jag blew out like a bat out of H@ll! :grin: The oil prevented almost all rusting; just a faint brown tinge to the cleaning patch. I got lucky this time. I'd have saved myself a lot of worrying if I'd just forked over the cash for the discharger BEFORE I needed it.
I was just minding my own business and going about the perfectly normal routine of cleaning my Mortimer flinter after a completely satisfying shoot. While pump-flushing the barrel with soapy water I heard a click and felt a very unsettling vibration through the cleaning rod. Yep my barrel suddenly had a nice tight soaking wet cleaning patch/jag combo down all the way in a fouled barrel.
It was late. The chamber was full of water so no chance of shooting the jag out with a couple grains. As I live in a small town in Germany the neighbors would have had something to talk about and I'd have been out of the shooting business if I'd shot it out anyway. Luckily I had a jag that fit the rifle's wooden ramrod. I could at least rub out the water above the blockage. I poured oil
down the barrel and used a printer syringe to squirt oil into the area behind the vent liner which chose this evening to sieze up and resist all forms of removal. There was nothing for it but to wait until Frankonia opened the next day.
I went to sleep with visions of my poor barrel slowly rotting away. :shocked2: Their gunsmith and my oil unsiezed the recalcitrant vent liner. I bought and used a device that I'm not EVER going to be without again. A CO2 discharger. Worked like a charm but I'd advise caution. That jag blew out like a bat out of H@ll! :grin: The oil prevented almost all rusting; just a faint brown tinge to the cleaning patch. I got lucky this time. I'd have saved myself a lot of worrying if I'd just forked over the cash for the discharger BEFORE I needed it.