Just a Reminder
12-19-2008, 09:39 PM
#1
Dominant Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 21,193
Just a Reminder
Now that hunting season is over for many of us, lets remember not to leave a rifle loaded or uncleaned. Anything that is more depressing is to remember months later and also discover some nasty developments in with with rifle. So if you're done and you have not prepared that rifle for storage... well it is your rifle.
12-20-2008, 04:05 PM
#4
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 426
RE: Just a Reminder
tomorrow is last day for muzzleloading in Indiana then its back to the bow until Jan 4.
Good reminder Dave! I had to help a young man drill out his breech plug with a lath no less. I didn't ask but imagine it had been put away dirty.
Good reminder Dave! I had to help a young man drill out his breech plug with a lath no less. I didn't ask but imagine it had been put away dirty.
12-20-2008, 05:32 PM
#5
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Upstate New York-Broome County
Posts: 597
RE: Just a Reminder
Just cleaned mine today. Was loaded but not dirty.After I shoot during the season I clean and reload then wipe the bore lightly with Rem Oil. I also tie a strip of orange surveyors tape on the trigger guard to signify a loaded rifle.That way I never forget.
Charlie
Charlie
12-20-2008, 05:41 PM
#6
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Comance county, OK
Posts: 11,408
RE: Just a Reminder
My Encore is cleaned, oiled and put away inthe safe. Yesterday i fired myCVA Staghorn to check the zero because of a bad shot i made onmy last deer:The gun shot great.That gun was cleaned and oiled today.
The CVA Mag. Hunter remains loaded with 140 grains of Pinnacle and the excellent 300 grain .430 XTP for hog hunting.
The CVA Mag. Hunter remains loaded with 140 grains of Pinnacle and the excellent 300 grain .430 XTP for hog hunting.
12-20-2008, 11:11 PM
#9
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: PA
Posts: 9,085
RE: Just a Reminder
good reminder cayugad!! all too often to leave the rifle in the garage or wood shed or wherever loaded and forgotten about because you thought you would get to hunt a little longer....or you got er dirty and got home after the hunt and took care of the game and got caught up with that and forgot to clean the rifle etc etc.....
the PA rocklock season dont start till the day after Christmas...im pumped!! lookin for #2 with the ole rocklock!
the PA rocklock season dont start till the day after Christmas...im pumped!! lookin for #2 with the ole rocklock!
12-21-2008, 05:06 AM
#10
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Comance county, OK
Posts: 11,408
RE: Just a Reminder
good reminder cayugad!!
+1
My former neighbors and hunting partners keft their muzzleloaders uncleaned for nearly a year.The Knight disc cleaned upok after we got the breech plug out. Thebore of the Traditions was pretty much a basket case.