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General discussion => Black Powder Shooting => Topic started by: A Scanlan on June 24, 2024, 08:11:37 PM
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Had a new shooter break off a wire brush down at the breech. I have one of Dan's tow worms so I pushed it down the barrel gave it a few turn and pulled....out came the brush! SO EASY!
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I guess I haven't been shooting BP long enough as I've never found a use for a bore brush in a ML gun.
I've been shooting BP rifles and shotguns since 1972.
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I've pulled some pretty funny stuff out of "loaded" muzzleloaders over the years using ball worms or tow worms. Here are some of my favorites:
-Multiple acorns out of a British blunderbuss
-The plastic propeller from one of those rubber band powdered toy planes out of a musket,
-A "gentleman's magazine" ;) from decades ago out of the bore of an antique cannon.
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ha! Eventually, I guess we learn what we can shove down the hole! :o
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Seth: Did you keep the magazine or hide it somewhere?
BTW, I am not advocating using a brush, normally. But think back to tow. Something of a brush. Tow does a great job for me but it's just a pain to get the right amount on the worm.
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I have pulled fireworks and a six inch nail from an Indian Torador, but it took more than a tow worm to do so....
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Seth: Did you keep the magazine or hide it somewhere?
BTW, I am not advocating using a brush, normally. But think back to tow. Something of a brush. Tow does a great job for me but it's just a pain to get the right amount on the worm.
I think we threw it away. Didn't want to handle it.
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I have pulled fireworks and a six inch nail from an Indian Torador, but it took more than a tow worm to do so....
That's what we used to use as kids. We'd take a large firecracker and drop a marble down after it...a piece of pipe would do, but we did try it with my Great Uncle's Snider that he kept in the tool shed :)