I am not sure what the value of the target (peanut butter and jelly?) is but the amazing part of this video is the way the FMJ 'tumbles' after passing through the targets.
The sound of a suppressed .308 is also pretty cool, see for yourself:
Friday, August 15, 2014
How to Clean a Rusted Black Powder Rifle Barrel..
Ugh...
I just started trying to rehabilitate an old Kentucky style blackpowder but the more I work on it the more I wonder if I am going to be able to get it back in shooting order as the barrel is severely rusted and quite possibly damaged.
We have all bought an old black powder rifle for an 'unbelievable' price only to find that the previous owner shot it then just let it rust. Is it safe to shoot a black powder rifle if there's rust in the rifling? Can the barrel be cleaned without a gunsmith?
After tons of oils, rigorous brushing, and even a few hundred strokes with bundles of steel wool (based on some Brownells advice) twisted on to a ball-puller and I don't seem to be making any progress.
We found a few competing solutions while looking for next steps - Please feel free to leave comments with advice or link to videos you think might be helpful to anyone half-way through a project like this.
DoubleTap on TheFiringLine has the method we're working on next:
"ya don't need no powder solvent. Take a brass brush to that rusty barrel with some Breakfree CLP(walmart) and scrub the devil out of it. Then take a piece of 3M green scrubbie(Pan scrubbers from the supermarket) and scrub it well again. Then dry it out with patches.
Take as many patches as it takes till they come out clean.(a little gray don't hurt.)
Then rinse the barrel again with hot water and a swab stroking up and down with the water in the barrel. I put my barrel in the oven with the door open on 210 for about 15 minutes.
Then take a patch with bore butterand coat the inside of the barrel. When you're ready to shoot, run a couple dry patches in it before loading.
Hope this helps. [sic]"
I am actually thinking about getting a test on with "Evaporust" - Does anyone have any experience with this?
Once we get this thing back in shooting order, we're going to leave the high tech tricks behind and go 100% traditional which will protect and prevent this from happening again.
I just started trying to rehabilitate an old Kentucky style blackpowder but the more I work on it the more I wonder if I am going to be able to get it back in shooting order as the barrel is severely rusted and quite possibly damaged.
We have all bought an old black powder rifle for an 'unbelievable' price only to find that the previous owner shot it then just let it rust. Is it safe to shoot a black powder rifle if there's rust in the rifling? Can the barrel be cleaned without a gunsmith?
After tons of oils, rigorous brushing, and even a few hundred strokes with bundles of steel wool (based on some Brownells advice) twisted on to a ball-puller and I don't seem to be making any progress.
We found a few competing solutions while looking for next steps - Please feel free to leave comments with advice or link to videos you think might be helpful to anyone half-way through a project like this.
DoubleTap on TheFiringLine has the method we're working on next:
"ya don't need no powder solvent. Take a brass brush to that rusty barrel with some Breakfree CLP(walmart) and scrub the devil out of it. Then take a piece of 3M green scrubbie(Pan scrubbers from the supermarket) and scrub it well again. Then dry it out with patches.
Take as many patches as it takes till they come out clean.(a little gray don't hurt.)
Then rinse the barrel again with hot water and a swab stroking up and down with the water in the barrel. I put my barrel in the oven with the door open on 210 for about 15 minutes.
Then take a patch with bore butterand coat the inside of the barrel. When you're ready to shoot, run a couple dry patches in it before loading.
Hope this helps. [sic]"
I am actually thinking about getting a test on with "Evaporust" - Does anyone have any experience with this?
Once we get this thing back in shooting order, we're going to leave the high tech tricks behind and go 100% traditional which will protect and prevent this from happening again.
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