Originally Posted by
chaded
I would be careful about how long I left the barrel dirty on a triumph. The one I had that my father in law has now did rust and all that has ever been shot through it has been Blackhorn209.
In fact, this past gun season he brought the gun up to my house afterwards because the breechplug was stuck. I thought it may have been the threads but after working it out the threads were fine but the end was covered in rust (breechplug end now pitted) and so was the breech area. This is actually the second time this has happened so I have told him to forget about leaving that gun dirty for very long. I have not had a problem in stainless guns after leaving them dirty for weeks but blued guns and that Triumph has not been so well.
I wonder if dad-in-law was exposing his already shot ML to a mix of high indoor and low outdoor temps, allowing that gun to sweat for multiple days / times? That probably increased his odds for rusting. Moisture may be the reason the non-treated breechplug threads and edges froze-up.
I never had a breechplug even come relatively-close to freezing-up using Blackhorn. I use the white plumbers teflon tape on mine. I give all threads two layers of protection. Then magic appears when I clean that breechplug. I would say 80% of that teflon tape comes up missing........ poof..... gone..... MIA.... like in a Randy Wakeman Magic Show in a Chicago 150-seat nightclub.
