Been meaning to mention this, but kept forgetting to do it.

I brought the Mustang along on my last range session. It had my standard huntingload in the barrel that has been in theresince last December - 100 grains T-7 under a 300 grain Gold Dot in a squeaky clean barrel. Well I shot it at the 100 yard target and it hit just where it should have. Felt good about that. Since the gun was dirty, I went ahead an shot another twenty rounds of mixed bullets and sabots just to use up some odds and ends. Cleaned it real well with Butch's Bore Shine at the range, but did not pull the breech plug.

So, a couple of days ago I got to thinking that I should pull that plug and clean the gun again, just to make sure. Now this plug had been put in back in Decemberwith three wraps of yellow teflon tape, which has been my practice of late, and takes a bit of force to screw in with that much tape. When I removed the plug it took about the same amount of force, but was in no way difficult or stuck. The plug came out with just a few threads of tape on the threads, and was squeaky clean. Absolutly no fouling on the threads or face of the plug. I shoved a bore brush in the breech - up past where the threads ended - then pulled it out with an unscrweing motion. All of the tape came out in one pass, like a bunch of tangled little strings. The threads in the breech were just as clean as those on the breech pluch.

So, if you haven't tried teflon tape yet I suggest you give it a go. Put on enough so that the plug is just a bit difficult to screw in, and go ahead a fully seat the plug. No need to back it out a 1/4 turn, or anything like that.