Breech cleaning question
 

Ok. Time for ask the experts...This is going to sound stupid but I'm in need of a straightforward method for cleaning my inline at the end of the day. I'm shooting a scoped omega (777 and APP) and I feel like this should be easier then it is. The part that gets me is the breech. The threads inside the barrel prevent me from running a patch out the muzzle (I'm afraid to force it). What I'd like to do is stick the muzzle in hot water and pull the water up through the barrel via suction. The scope prevents me from doing it the opposite way.

What do you guys do at the end of the day? How do you prevent pushing the crud ring etc into the threads making it worse?

Am I just challenged?

gopherfan

RE: Breech cleaning question
 

gopherfan

To tell you the truth, I clean mine as clean as I can get with the breech plug installed. I do back the plug out maybe a 1/3 of the way and I do clean from the muzzle using a brass guard on the ram rod that protects the crown of the barrel. When I get the barrel as clean as I can that way I will remove the BP andpush apatches through to get the material that may be left in the breech area. Then I usea bronze bore brush from the breech end on a slow drill to clean the threads of the breech threads. The next step for me is a couple of saturated bore solvent patches through the barrel, let the solvent sit in the bore for about 30 minutes. I then with the aid of a funnel pour boiling water through the barrel. Keep the boiling water off the scope. Set the barreled action in a cradle andquickly dry the bore with clean dry patches.

From there what ever you do to treat and care for you bore. I have a set routine that really works well for me.

If you have quick detatchable scope it probablay make things a bit easier, but I am old fashioned and do not trust the QD hardeware all that much.

hope this helps some....

RE: Breech cleaning question
 

The last thing I do is remove the breechplug. I clean the bore the best I can before removing it. Once I remove the plug, I use a one-way patched bore brush & when I reach the threads, I turn the ramrod clockwise a few times to clean.

I do this with a few patches -- all one-way in & no dirty patchescome back out thru the muzzle- then use a shorter wire brush made exclusively for the breechplug area. You can find them on ML accessories shelves where stuff like jags, nipples, 209primer holders & plug grease are found. They usually have a 5-6" long wire attached with a hole at the end big enough to stick your middle finger in - for sliding up & down inside your breech-end.

When that is clean, the entire bore gets gun oil... even those threads. After that, I put grease on the breechplug threads - screw it in - then unscrew it back out. That leaves some grease on the bore threads. I will then re-grease the breechplug threads & screw-in the plug for the last time.

RE: Breech cleaning question
 

thanks guys. I do have a quick release scope but I'd perfer that removing it becomes the exception rather than the rule.

I've already looked up a "breech cleaning kit" and see what you're talking about regarding the brushes. I've been using a toothbrush but they obviously weren't made for gun breeches. With all of the time I've spent in the ML isles of cablelas I can't believe I have never noticed them. Another excuse to make a run to the store!

Thanks again.

RE: Breech cleaning question
 

I clean my Omega from the breech. I use boiling hot water with dish detergent in a coffee can. I stick the muzzle in the water and run clean paches on a jag up and down with short strokes. Once the bore is clean I clean the breech threads with a 20 ga. shotgun brush. Last I clean the plug with Q-tips, pipe cleaners, and I clean the flash hole with a piece of telephone wire strriped of its insulation.

RE: Breech cleaning question
 

One thing that escapes me is why someone doesn't market an effective 209 primer pocket cleaner. Could maybe make the pocket cleaner so it would pivot (for use while in the rifle) and put a flash hole pick on the other end. Anyone know of such a tool? It's surely out there.

RE: Breech cleaning question
 

Hey UC

Lets add some women buyers & market it as a two-way tool.

For the guys, it can be used as a fouling pick
For the gals, it serves as the world's longest sewing needle..lol :D

RE: Breech cleaning question
 

UC

gosh! I almost hate to say I am using an old fashioned Que Tip and a wood tooth pick to get the job done...

RE: Breech cleaning question
 

Well yeah, but don't you think such a device would be handy? Sometimes the fouling in a primer pocket can be stubborn. Wouldn't have to be much of a tool, even serrated plastic of the right size and shape would work.