Epoxy that was spooged into the breech when the liner was pushed in.
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Relined barrel proble
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Who did the work?
blfuller
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See post #5 for the answer.
Just to be clear, The work in the pictures I shared was not done by Hoyt. It was done by the seller.
Sorry if I hijacked.
Sorry if I hijacked.
Paying more attention to the OP, it was about a relining, while my above post was only about a breech plug installed after a rebore. While a relining used to be done with solder, most today seem to be using a Henkel (Loctite) product or similar to install them. There is a good chance that is the residue you are seeing.
Just got a call from Mr Hoyt (I think it was him). Very nice gentleman indeed. He apologized for neglecting to check things before sending it back to me and told me to heat a pin and push it in the flashhoe to open it. He told me if that didn’t work to send it back to him to take care of it. He advised against using heat gun or torch.
I’ll try hot pin and will report the result!
I’ll try hot pin and will report the result!
BeardedGunsmith
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I can't say this definitively to be the case but I've repaired quite a few firearms that were worked over by skilled gunsmiths that were just getting up in age and starting to lose their touch. It happens.
Of course sir. It happens to us all. Nothing to worry about. The gentleman will fix it. Will ship the barrel to him tomorrow morning. I just don’t have the proper tool to do it myself getting the breach plug off since my effort with hot middle didn't work! Thank you for your kind words.
Good luck getting him to call you back . I had an issue with some barrels that I sent and called and left messages for him to return the call to ask about what happened with my barrel. I posted about what happened on this forum and the response was pretty much I was a blasphemer.
Good deal , you were lucky. Glad he called you back.
Sorry about your experience. I just called several times and left detail message. He called me yesterday morning. Hopefully he’ll fix the barrel for me.
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The standard tc wrench will not work for removal, I’m sure Bobby is using one he made in the shop.
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He’s a good man, stands behind his work and it’s certainly in demand. What’s your rate of twist on this new liner?
Already shipped to him to take care of it. He is gentleman. Thanks
Thanks. Shipped back to him to fix the problem!
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Bobby Hoyt is a stand up guy, if you go to him with an issue, he certainly will correct it as best as he can to meet your expectation.
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Very Strange all I've heard was how capable Mr Hoyt is. Ide dearly love to get liners & such work done but half a world away in these anti gun times that's not so easy done . Kit Ravenshear gave me a 44 cal liner from some salvaged job once I fixed it into an old pitted 16 bore shotgun And despite its only rear sight being the hollow in the False breach (all you need really) Its been a great flint rifle . Jerry Cunningham or his friend Harrison once told me liners where an easy thing. Happen so but beyond my caprice . .Rudyard's take on the matter
Well Rudyard,
Jerry Cunningham is a name I haven't heard for years. I'm assuming you're referring to the J.C. who once ran the Montana Rifle Barrel Company. If so, I used to sell his barrels. In fact at one time I'd heard he had told folks I was his Eastern Montana distributor. Lol
I did sell quite a number of his barrels back in the early 1980s. People were very satisfied with these barrels. I've got a couple of guns using them, good barrels.
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I had Bobby Hoyt rebore one barrel, a trashed caplock T/C .50 White Mountain Carbine to .54 with a roundball twist. I was completely satisfied with the whole experience, and the barrel shoots very well.
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