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CLEANING ROD DAMAGE
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<blockquote data-quote="RT2506" data-source="post: 1991216" data-attributes="member: 10178"><p>Here is how to re-crown your rifle. Get a round head BRASS bolt. Chuck the threaded end in a variable speed or hand crank drill. Get some valve grinding compound at your local auto parts store and place some on the head of the brass bolt. Put the rifle in a vice and with a slow speed hold the bolt head against the muzzle with light pressure for about 30 seconds. Wipe the muzzle clean and inspect. Do this until you get a smooth cut all the way around. I have fixed many scatter shooting rifles like this and made them tack drivers. Most have been old military rifles and the others have been mostly either improper cleaning rod usage or carrying them muzzle down on the carpet of an automobile which is like holding a vibratory sander against the muzzle. </p><p></p><p>I mostly do not use a cleaning rod any more to clean my firearms. I use weed eater string. Yep, weed eater string. Take a piece about a foot longer than you will need to go through the action and out the muzzle. With a flame melt one end and press it against something glass to form a button on the end. You can trim or sand it to be just a bit smaller diameter than your bore. Sharpen the other end of the line. Now just poke that sharpened end through the center of a cloth patch and push the patch down to the button end. Apply your solvent to the patch and stick the sharpened end through the action and out the muzzle and just pull the patch through. Let the solvent do it's work for a while and then follow with a dry patch. Repeat if needed. For stubborn copper deposits I use one of the foam cleaners and then wipe it out with this method. I carry one of these in my hunting pack in a ziplock bag with some patches and solvent just in case. You never know when you might stumble and stick you muzzle in the ground.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RT2506, post: 1991216, member: 10178"] Here is how to re-crown your rifle. Get a round head BRASS bolt. Chuck the threaded end in a variable speed or hand crank drill. Get some valve grinding compound at your local auto parts store and place some on the head of the brass bolt. Put the rifle in a vice and with a slow speed hold the bolt head against the muzzle with light pressure for about 30 seconds. Wipe the muzzle clean and inspect. Do this until you get a smooth cut all the way around. I have fixed many scatter shooting rifles like this and made them tack drivers. Most have been old military rifles and the others have been mostly either improper cleaning rod usage or carrying them muzzle down on the carpet of an automobile which is like holding a vibratory sander against the muzzle. I mostly do not use a cleaning rod any more to clean my firearms. I use weed eater string. Yep, weed eater string. Take a piece about a foot longer than you will need to go through the action and out the muzzle. With a flame melt one end and press it against something glass to form a button on the end. You can trim or sand it to be just a bit smaller diameter than your bore. Sharpen the other end of the line. Now just poke that sharpened end through the center of a cloth patch and push the patch down to the button end. Apply your solvent to the patch and stick the sharpened end through the action and out the muzzle and just pull the patch through. Let the solvent do it's work for a while and then follow with a dry patch. Repeat if needed. For stubborn copper deposits I use one of the foam cleaners and then wipe it out with this method. I carry one of these in my hunting pack in a ziplock bag with some patches and solvent just in case. You never know when you might stumble and stick you muzzle in the ground. [/QUOTE]
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