while we were cleaning my .54 lyman, we had went down the bore with a bore brush on the end of the ram rod. its stuck! we tried pulling it out as hard as we could with out breaking the wooden ram rod. can we spray some kind of lubricant down it will it make it easier to pull? thanks.

Its probably stuck in the touch hole put any good gun oil down and twist the oppsite way that IT screwed on once you get it to start twisting then pull up at the same time as your twisting.

ok i got it. thanks

btw, throw away that bore brush, not needed, use a cleaning jag...

I've gotten a cleaning jag and patch stuck before and had to shoot it out. I will never clean a side lock barrel with a cleaning jag again. I either use a shotgun cleaning rod with the patch holder or I wrap a patch around a cleaning brush.

Bore brushes were made to push out of the bore and then pulled back. A big no no for sidelocks.

i was actually wrong, my friend was cleaning it, i thought he put in a bore brush but it was actually just a patch. i got it out with ease putting in some gun oil. i don't understand how it got stuck though?

btw i'm new to black powder guns, a lot more fun to shoot than centerfires though

should that ever happen again and you can't get it out simply remove the nipple or falsh hole liner and trickle in about 5 grs of powder, reinstall and shoot it out into a box of rags.