Needless to say the gun is well the barrel anyway is screwed. This is my 5th or 6th attempt with about 2 hours each time of trying to get all the rust out of this Barrel. I have put a bottle of solving through it, a large bag of 50 caliber patches, flooded the bore with Dawn dish washing detergent, poured boiling hot water down the barrel for the first go round. I've been up since 3:00 this morning (which is a blessing I usually don't sleep at all but I managed to get two and a half hours ) and I'm now on my second bottle of spray cleaner hoppy's brand in a spray bottle, ran a brush through it about a hundred times
( and that's not an exaggeration ) very rapidly, ran solve it soaked patches through it again and another attempt at the hot boiling water situation. And I kid you not it's like I have never even started. This is just what come out of it this morning and this is the third attempt at trying to get this Barrel clean and I cannot believe how much the sparrow wants to hold on to this corrosion. It's starting to, forgive my language piss me off! I'm not going to charge the guy for the work I'm just going to ask for the price of the supplies black back because that stuff is not cheap especially when you use it and gobs like I have. I mentioned to him that it might be corroded when I got the barrel but he just said " no I will clean up just do it the best you can. ". Well I'm just going to run the brush through it a few more times to get the patch strands that have hung onto the rough corrosion through it oil it down put it back together and give it to him. I'll take the bolt and plug out and show them the barrel and he'll just have to deal with that.
It still has a tag on the trigger so I'm guessing he got a hell of a price on it at a pawn shop or something like that. I'm not even sure they make Traditions rifles anymore so a re barrel would be probably more costly than just buying another muzzleloader even if they do still make them. I think it's their entry level in line muzzleloader anyway. He's got about 40 or 50 guns sitting in a humidity Rich environment and I know they're not clean.
This pic is just what I pulled out of it this morning are pushed out of it rather with a brush and cleaner. Before I readjusted the paper towel I got a bunch of it on the bench which won't wipe off so that's not the total of what came out. And when I poured water down the barrel, Oh my Lord! I know I'm just beating the dead horse here with trying to clean it but when he looks down the barrel with the flashlight I wanted to at least look like there's no crystals formed the rifling. Because right now it still looks like just a straight rusted Barrel on the inside with a bunch of pitting. I have not even knocked the dent in the rust. So I revive this subject in a second thread asking for ways to get this rust at least under control or to knock it down smooth somehow. I just don't want the guy to look at me like I'm crazy when I asking for $25 for cleaning supplies. He did say I could come out and shoot on his land anytime I wanted to so I'm not going to charge him anything for just doing the work. I do however, want to make it look like I did something.
Lewis is one of the kindest old souls there is but he was one hell of a mean dude in his youth and me being a hyperactive youngen he loathed me. I guess we both settled down in our old age and realize that we're actually both decent humans.
( and that's not an exaggeration ) very rapidly, ran solve it soaked patches through it again and another attempt at the hot boiling water situation. And I kid you not it's like I have never even started. This is just what come out of it this morning and this is the third attempt at trying to get this Barrel clean and I cannot believe how much the sparrow wants to hold on to this corrosion. It's starting to, forgive my language piss me off! I'm not going to charge the guy for the work I'm just going to ask for the price of the supplies black back because that stuff is not cheap especially when you use it and gobs like I have. I mentioned to him that it might be corroded when I got the barrel but he just said " no I will clean up just do it the best you can. ". Well I'm just going to run the brush through it a few more times to get the patch strands that have hung onto the rough corrosion through it oil it down put it back together and give it to him. I'll take the bolt and plug out and show them the barrel and he'll just have to deal with that.
It still has a tag on the trigger so I'm guessing he got a hell of a price on it at a pawn shop or something like that. I'm not even sure they make Traditions rifles anymore so a re barrel would be probably more costly than just buying another muzzleloader even if they do still make them. I think it's their entry level in line muzzleloader anyway. He's got about 40 or 50 guns sitting in a humidity Rich environment and I know they're not clean.
This pic is just what I pulled out of it this morning are pushed out of it rather with a brush and cleaner. Before I readjusted the paper towel I got a bunch of it on the bench which won't wipe off so that's not the total of what came out. And when I poured water down the barrel, Oh my Lord! I know I'm just beating the dead horse here with trying to clean it but when he looks down the barrel with the flashlight I wanted to at least look like there's no crystals formed the rifling. Because right now it still looks like just a straight rusted Barrel on the inside with a bunch of pitting. I have not even knocked the dent in the rust. So I revive this subject in a second thread asking for ways to get this rust at least under control or to knock it down smooth somehow. I just don't want the guy to look at me like I'm crazy when I asking for $25 for cleaning supplies. He did say I could come out and shoot on his land anytime I wanted to so I'm not going to charge him anything for just doing the work. I do however, want to make it look like I did something.
Lewis is one of the kindest old souls there is but he was one hell of a mean dude in his youth and me being a hyperactive youngen he loathed me. I guess we both settled down in our old age and realize that we're actually both decent humans.
