remove or not remove barrel

[mto7464]

Do most of you remove the barrel to clean after shooting or leave it on?

 

[Flash Pan Dan]

It depends on whether the barrel is pinned or has a hooked breech with keys. Which do you have?

 

[William O.]

If my rifles are held in place with a key as on my GPR or plains rifle. My early Virginia rifle has a barrel that is pinned in place, so to remove it for every cleaning would be wholly impractical.

 

[browndog]

my lyman rifle barrel is very easily removed and I always take it out. Regards Browndog

 

[Adui]

My Traditions is also keyed, and thus very easy to remove so I do. I used to use a tube made of fish tank air tubing over the nipple. Worked slick, but occasionally popped off spilling fluid all over the gun stock. This is what i would use for any pinned barrel rather than fully removing the barrel.

 

[White Oak]

I only own TCs. Very easy to remove. No reason to leave on.

 

[George T.]

I do it both ways but removing the barrel makes it easier to keep the stock looking good. However I only remove the lock a few times a year. Geo. T.

 

[Grenadier1758]

My Derringer rifle is keyed, but the breech plug is threaded into the barrel. Its easier to leave the barrel in the stock than to remove the keys and the tang bolts to remove the barrel. I don't think it is necessary to remove the barrel for cleaning.

I will remove the barrel on my patent breech Hawken rifle.

Patent breech with keyed barrel - remove

Breech plug with pinned barrel - don't remove

 

[tenngun]

Like the rest when I had a keyed rifle I poped it off and in to a bucket to clean.All my guns now are pinned so its clean in the stock.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

On my pinned rifles and guns, as the others have said, I don't remove the barrel to clean. I do take the barrel out once a year to check for rust beneath the stock-line. Otherwise, nope.

LD

 

[Ron_T.]

My flintlock has a pinned barrel, so I leave it "in-the-stock" and clean it very carefully.

My two Hawkens have removable barrels held in place with a "key". I removed these rifle's barrels for cleaning.

Whether you remove your rifle's barrel or not depends on whether it is "pinned" in place or is easily removed by simply removing the wedge-shaped "key" which holds it in place.


Strength & Honor...

Ron T.

 

[Rat Trapper]

TC rifles are easy to pull the barrel for cleaning, so I do.

 

[Zonie]

I remove the barrel on all of my muzzleloading rifles to clean them.

This includes more than a few pinned longrifles I built.

When removing a pinned barrel it is necessary to use another pin that is smaller than the one thru the barrels underlugs and yes, you have to be careful not to damage the wood.
This is not the huge task some make it out to be though. It just takes being careful.

 

[Celt5494]

After every few cleanings I remove the barrel to get it good and clean on the underside. It's not because I have any issues with removing the pins, it has more to do with general laziness on my part... :idunno:

 

[nkbj]

I remove the barrel on all of my muzzleloading rifles to clean them.

This includes more than a few pinned longrifles I built.

When removing a pinned barrel it is necessary to use another pin that is smaller than the one thru the barrels underlugs and yes, you have to be careful not to damage the wood.
This is not the huge task some make it out to be though. It just takes being careful.

Yeah, you have to clean them right pinned or not.

PS,
I'd like to be included in your will even though you're left brained.

 

[Poor Private]

The very last day at the GAC Gettysburg reenactment was interesting 5 minutes after the las battle(Picket's Charge) I rain as if the world was on fire. We had to walk 2 miles back to Confed camp in it. All muskets were drenched. We packed up that night in the rain and drove home. I got home 14 hours later and went to bed after setting up wet canvas--To make a long story short. If your long gun was out in the rain pull everything from the stock Because it sure is wet and may be rusty. It took me over 5 hours to clean up 2 muskets. Rust was visable under the barrel bands and on the underside of the barrel. There was even mositure in the locks.

 

[tenngun]

good looking guns, and you know them. In the end you clean dry and oil. Do what your comfortable with and you cant go wrong if clean dry and oil.

 

[jamesthomas]

Nice rifles!! :bow: I remove my barrel 3 or 4 times a year just to make sure everything is alright, cause one time I pulled it I had a couple of spots were rust was trying to take hold. Cleaned it up an put some gun wax on the underside, so far so good. :thumbsup:

 

[hanshi]

Pinned barrels; NO. All others; usually. I only remove a pinned barrel when there is any kind of work needed.

 

[AllenHawken]

InvestArm .54 caliber Hawken with breech end hooked into the tang and a single brass key holding the barrel through escutcheons: Remove barrel to clean. I know every inch of that rifle, as I built it from a kit from Dixie Gun Works.

Pedersoli .50 caliber Kentucky Rifle with barrel held to stock by pins: Keep the barrel in the stock to clean.

Both methods work fine.