Just thinkin here. Can you get a grease fitting with the same threads as the nipple on a t/c? If you can it would be great for blowin out the charge when yoiu got home. :D

Gary

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Jack

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Jack

Jack that's exactly what I was thinkin. I went out this afternoon and got a few of the fittings and was goin to use them when I got home from huntin.(of course if I didn't get a deer and I didn't) Before I tried the fitting I just went down to the little compressor and used the air gun nosile on the rifles nipple. Well it worked without any mods at all. This is a great thing for those of you that don't get a shot during the day. All I do for clean up is run a patch with some oil on it and wipe the rifle down. If I get a shot at a deer it's worth the extra effort to take it apart and clean it.

This is great!!!!!

Everytime my shooting bud and I go to shoot B/P he somehow forgets to powder one. After fighting with a bullet jag bought a handy little gadget from Cabelas. You use a co2 cartridge in it and put it over the nipple and blow everything out the end of the bbl. (do this in a safe direction) it also comes with an in-line adaptor. Only problem I ever had with it was using too thick of a patch with the ball, it woundent blow it out. I keep one of the things in my bag and a pack of 5 co2 cartridges just in case. Have cleared several rifles for people at the range.

Gun Runner

Everytime my shooting bud and I go to shoot B/P he somehow forgets to powder one. After fighting with a bullet jag bought a handy little gadget from Cabelas. You use a co2 cartridge in it and put it over the nipple and blow everything out the end of the bbl. (do this in a safe direction) it also comes with an in-line adaptor. Only problem I ever had with it was using too thick of a patch with the ball, it woundent blow it out. I keep one of the things in my bag and a pack of 5 co2 cartridges just in case. Have cleared several rifles for people at the range.

Gun Runner
Yep Had to use mine yesterday, some dill swabed out his rifle and forgot to dry it, wet powder, now his buying one too.
paladin

Yes this should work but there are some cautions that are noted. American zerks are either 1/8-27 NPT or 1/4-28 NF threads and you would need the latter if the gun has American threads. If it was metric then they could be 1x6mm and metric zerks are not easly found at least in my part of the world. Yes one will start in the other for a thread or two then lock up. Do not use a wrench if this happens otherwise your going to create a headache -- read this to mean a mess! Metric and english threads do not match and will not work together. My father found out the hard way when he put the wrong oil filter on his car engine and it came off losing all the oil and ruining the engine. My question is how were you going to do this? Use grease to jack the charge and projectile out. Use oil in the gun and use hydrolic pressure to push the charge and projectile out. Either way is messy. Much simpler to use air or co2 to push the charge and projectile out in a safe direction.

Metric threads aren't standardized, so double check. The average shop compressor is set for 120 psi and a lever grease gun, in theory, can produce 10,000 psi.

Bye
Jack

Guess I'm the only guy who actually carries a ball worm?

Guess I'm the only guy who actually carries a ball worm?

Yeah Ribb, ball worms are good if 1. you know how to use them. 2. the ball doesn't spin in a loose breach. 3. the worm thread is the right size and is not screwed in to much ( only expands the ball and makes it harder to pull). 4. it is against our club rules to stand in front (to pull ball) of a loaded firearm even if not capped. 5. it is difficult to screw into a slug (Minnie) when it just turns with the thread.
but yeah! worms are good.
paladin

Have to admit, I haven't stuck enough bullets in an uncharged barrel or contaminated enough powder charges to get a lot of practice with a worm but on the few times I had to use it, it worked fine....with the one exception posted at the bottom.

Can see where a loose fitting mini would be a problem...and the range rules seem designed to keep you from using any kind of rod (and the logic being that you'd have to go home with a 1/2 loaded rifle...were is the safety in that?).

Did have a worm defeat me, but it wasn't my rifle. Had one come into a shop with a ball stuck down the bore with no powder charge at all. Was beat in place, covering the breech. Couldn't blow it out becasue the nipple's path was set a bit ahead of the bottom of the barrel..and the ball was BEHIND the vent. Had been wormed off center five or six times and I couldn't get a worm to bite into the chewed surface.

No way to blow it out...no way to worm it out...pretty much had to de-breech it and push it out. BUT, it was a cheap 1960's import and they welded the tang after breech plug was installed. Believe it wasa required at some time in the 1960's for imported guns. HAd to cut through the weld, then make a wrench (the imports were not know for being standard sizes), and debreech.