I had a old side hammer, one of the first I ever hunted with. Anyway I got a cleaning jag stuck in it, it came off when the patch I used was too big and I could'nt get it to come back out. I pulled so hard it came off the Jag.
I neede this MLer Bad, I had to hunt the next day and this was my only MLer I had to use, I tried everything, even shooting it out with some powder poured in the flash channel.....it would'nt come out. I tried a patch puller and almost had it but that broke off the rod....damn!
Down to the garage and to the Vice I went.....with a pipe wrench I broke apart the breech and it unscrewed. I know it was'nt ment to ever come apart but it did and I was a desperate man so it called for desperate measures.
I got the Jag out, and gave that baby the best cleaning it ever had. Put it all back togeather and it worked fine. To this day I still dont know why they never made them with a removeable breech.
How many of our's today have a crud ring at the bottom of the breech that will never be clean no matter how clean we think they are, and are rusting away at the bottom, what a shame.
The MLer was My 50cal Dixie Gun Works Poor Boy, the year 1992
(BP)
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