That is what I heard when a friend called me a couple days ago. I said it is ok we can get it out. He said no it is real stuck! I said how bad can it be. He said it has been loaded for 20 years! I am like and now your worried about it? The gun is a TC hawken 50 cal.

So I fire up the endoscope and look down it.



I thought now something looks odd here. I ran the rod down the barrel and it looked like it was too far out to be seated to the powder.
He was very vague on facts so I decided to lean to the side of caution. I first tried air. :surrender:

That wasn't going to work. So I dug out my kit and got out a grease zerk. Well my grease zerk would not work with the TC breach plug. After I got it seated the fitting on the pump would not go on because it was too close. So down to the Napa store I go and get a 1/4x28 1" long. Well I put it in and gave it a few pumps. It was tight as Heck and the pressure really started to build. Then pop, it gave and started down the barrel. I hooked the air back up and out she came. This is what came out. I have it in the picture just like it came out.



In this next picture you can see the ball better but it was flat. The flat side is the side that was sticking out.



It was right at the muzzle so I screwed in the ball puller and pulled it the rest of the way out.
I cleaned out the grease and scrubbed it good with a brush but it was super rusty in the breach plug/breach.



I then pushed a brush into the breach and scrubbed it. Then I used JB bore paste and put 200 strokes down the barrel.





I pushed a wad down the barrel with the endoscope to get more light in the barrel to see the sides better.





Most of the barrel looks okay for being treated like crap for the last 20 years. The plug and breach is another story. He is going to have to work on it some more. Either that or sell it to me. :thumbsup:

I think for now he will be able to shoot it and I think it will probably shoot fine.