Your rifle is doomed,it will never function again. If you mail it to me I will safely dispose of it. Try putting gun oil down the barrel and let it soak overnight.Might soften the patch.Another way is to remove the nipple and sprinkle some powder from a .22 shell in and fire it off,mark the ramrod first to see how much it moves.You might have to reseat and fire it a couple times,but it will break it free.
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Your rifle is doomed,it will never function again. If you mail it to me I will safely dispose of it. Try putting gun oil down the barrel and let it soak overnight.Might soften the patch.Another way is to remove the nipple and sprinkle some powder from a .22 shell in and fire it off,mark the ramrod first to see how much it moves.You might have to reseat and fire it a couple times,but it will break it free.
Charlie
Either warm water or oil as suggested will get it out!
personally I dump isopropyl alcohol down the bore and saturate the patch. Then you can normally pull them out. Plus the alcohol is a lot easier to get out of the bore then water or oil. After the patch is out, dump the remaining alcohol and then swab again.
Most stuck rods are from the patch is too large or you are swabbing to much of an area at a time. Work short areas down the bore. You don't want a lot of fouling left behind the patch, should you need to suddenly pull it back out. When you reach a crud right... SLOW DOWN. Take only very tiny attacks at it until you feel it break through. Then scrub that area good.
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sprinkle some powder from a .22 shell in and fire it off
Don't do that.
It's acceptable to remove the nipple and work about five grains of your regular powder (real black, pyrodex, triple seven, etc.) into the breech, then replace the nipple and shoot the obstruction out. But I would not use the fast burning smokless powder from a .22 cartridge.
I've never seen a stuck rod that could not be pulled after putting an ounce or so of liquid down the bore to wet the patch.
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It's acceptable to remove the nipple and work about five grains of your regular powder (real black, pyrodex, triple seven, etc.) into the breech, then replace the nipple and shoot the obstruction out. But I would not use the fast burning smokless powder from a .22 cartridge.
I've never seen a stuck rod that could not be pulled after putting an ounce or so of liquid down the bore to wet the patch.
Are you sure? I have tried everything and it won't come out. The ram rod is wooden and has broken off at the permenantly attatched cleaning jag. Now the jag with the patch on it is stuck inside the barrel. I figured the only way I'll ever get it out now would be to shoot it out. But I was affraid the barrel might explode. Also, everything In the barrel is probably soaking wet with oil and water from trying to soak the patch and I figure that might keep the powder from going off. I would like to salvage the barrel if I can, but I was going to buy a new one for the rifle anyway. That was my plan when I bought the gun.
Also, before the jag broke off of the rod I could move the rod back and forth an inch or so, what seemed to me to be the length of the powder drum at the end of the barrel.
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Either warm water or oil as suggested will get it out!
