Aww finally got out
#1
Aww finally got out
After a hectic September down in FL selling a house and moving out, then PA archery season taking up all my free time with a moose hunt in Labrador thrown in the mix, I finally got out to shoot a smoke pole. My friend and I took the flinters out. Either my eyes changed or my sights got moved but I had to make some sight adjustments. But after doing so we were both packing them right in the bull. Then someone had thrown some semi-rotten apples out where we were shooting. So we set them up on the bank and proceeded to make 'applesauce' shooting them at about 50 yards.
What a blast.
What a blast.
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 1,834
I would have never thought with all that mass it would have had enough energy to throw pieces that far.
#6
I forgot to tell you guys. I had an episode. While swabbing between shots with an alcohol patch, the insert from the range rod pulled out and left it and the jag/patch in the bore. I had to take off the barrel, remove the touch hole and pour in some FFFFg into the breech, reinstall the touch hole. Then I put the range rod down to make sure the patch and jag were down all the way and removed the rod. I shot into the ground and recovered my jag but the insert was banged up as it must have hit a rock.
I just got done putting a new end on the range rod and pinned it with a brass brad. Now it will never come off.
I just got done putting a new end on the range rod and pinned it with a brass brad. Now it will never come off.
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 1,834
I forgot to tell you guys. I had an episode. While swabbing between shots with an alcohol patch, the insert from the range rod pulled out and left it and the jag/patch in the bore. I had to take off the barrel, remove the touch hole and pour in some FFFFg into the breech, reinstall the touch hole. Then I put the range rod down to make sure the patch and jag were down all the way and removed the rod. I shot into the ground and recovered my jag but the insert was banged up as it must have hit a rock.
I just got done putting a new end on the range rod and pinned it with a brass brad. Now it will never come off.
I just got done putting a new end on the range rod and pinned it with a brass brad. Now it will never come off.
#8
Yeah secondchance it was a CVA range rod. I have 3 of them. One each for .50, .54, and .58. I just change the jag on one for the .45.
I am skeptical about the threaded inserts in them. I had one come out of the side with the T handle on which is no biggie. But coming off in the bore with a patch is a different story. If I had some old wooden ramrods I would take the ends off of them and install them on the range rods with epoxy and pin them. That's what I did with this one using the last of my threaded ramrod tips.
I am skeptical about the threaded inserts in them. I had one come out of the side with the T handle on which is no biggie. But coming off in the bore with a patch is a different story. If I had some old wooden ramrods I would take the ends off of them and install them on the range rods with epoxy and pin them. That's what I did with this one using the last of my threaded ramrod tips.