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hello, new to muzzleloading. just picked up a shenandoah. so far Im a lil disappointed. the gun specific info in the owners manual is poorly described. How the heck do I remove the barrel on this thing???? It says I need t remove the screw at the top of the barrel tang which I did. and than some pins needs to be tapped out? where the heck are they?
also... when I set the double trigger at full position. I pull the trigger and it falls back to the half cock and not fire. and the cleaning rod doesnt go all the way in the holder. sticks out about a inch past the barrel.
The thing a lot of people should remember is, not all rifle barrels
SHOULD be removed from the stock. You have one such rifle. I realize that the rifle is a beautiful rifle, but they do not have a hooked breech. You are basically taking the rifle apart each time you take the screws out and knock the pins out. The pins by the way are located along the side of the rifle. The pins go through the stock and into the barrel lock wedges. If you take them out a lot, the eventually do not hold the rifle secure to the stock and your accuracy suffers a great deal.
The reason to remove the rifle in most cases is for cleaning. So your real concern should be.. how do I clean the rifle? Well you need a flush kit.
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Leaving the rifle secure in the stock you remove the nipple from the bolster or in the case of a flintlock the vent liner. The one end of the flush kit then screws into that nipple port or the vent liner opening. The tube end of the flush kit is then inserted into a bucket of hot water with soap in it. You then dunk a patch into the water and start swabbing the barrel with the wet patch and ramrod. This action creates a syphon action and will draw the water up into the barrel and basically flush the fowling out of the barrel. The barrel does not come out of the stock.
After that some solvent patches and then some dry patches the the rifle is cleaned. You then protect it with the method of your choice.
As for your trigger, it sounds like you need to reset it, or that something is actually broken in there. I would guess it is set too light and that when you cock it, the set trigger is not holding. Can you cock the rifle with it staying in the cocked position? If you can, and then you hit the set trigger moving it to the half cock position, it need to be reset. Also some rifles do require the set trigger to be engaged. Try this, pull the set trigger first, and then cock the rifle. Does it go to the full cock position? If not the set trigger is the problem. It should tell in your manual how to fix that . Otherwise call Tradition's rifle company on the phone and have a tech talk you through it.
As for the ramrod, it is not uncommon for some to stick an inch or so out past the end of the barrel. Is there a cleaning jag on the end of it that is giving it the extra length? If not, this might be the style, or the ramrod wedge is bent wrong. If you push on it, will the ramrod actually go down further or is it as far as it will go? If so you might have to pull the stock and adjust the ramrod wedge or the channel is clogged with something or by something. The ramrod wedge on some rifles is a small piece of metal that put tension on the ramrod as it slides over it to keep the ramrod from falling forward as you carry the rifle. It they are bent too far out, they can become an obstruction in the ramrod stock channel. Also sometimes they are on backward and need to be turned around.
Its hard to tell without the rifle in my hands.