Cleaned 6 rimfire revolvers that I shot yesterday.
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What did you do at your reloading bench today?
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Re: What did you do at your reloading bench today?
Monte Walsh "You have No idea how little I care". 
Ain't No Apologies for My Temperament
Si vis pacem, para bellum
H001, H006, H012
Ain't No Apologies for My Temperament
Si vis pacem, para bellum
H001, H006, H012
Re: What did you do at your reloading bench today?
Ooph, when I first found my Nolock 617 at a LGS in CT. The owner said it was his personal 22LR plate gun, and that he'd shot well over 20 cases of ammo through it.
I bought it, took it home, gave it a good scraping, swabbing, and oiling. I went to the gun range and fired it. It was keyholing and you about needed a hammer to drive the 22lr cases in and out of the chambers.
Back to the house we went. Plugged the chambers and barrel with pieces of earplugs and filled it with hoppes.
2 days later, I used a drill and a bore brush on the chambers and the barrel.
Only then did I grasp what 100000 22LR rifle bullets do to a revolver.
I ordered a Lewis lead remover and used the smallest patch to clean all 10 cylinders. 3/4-inch-long tubes of lead popped out.
I could not seemingly pull hard enough to get the Lewis lead remover patch through the barrel. I tried off and on for an hour. I simply couldn't hold it in one hand and pull with the other.
I didn't have a vise at the time, but I had decent woodworking clamps. I clamped one to the frame without the grip and stuck that between my legs.
I pulled even when I felt my back pop.
Slowly, little lead strands started to emerge from the barrel. It took an extra 20 minutes to pull the brass patch through. With it came 6-inch twisted slivers of lead.
Then, my friends, it took another twenty-five passes with the Lewis lead remover to get the barrel in shape to run a .22 caliber jag through it.
Total time cleaning this revolver. About a week. It shot beautifully after that.
I moved from CT to VA, and the hand broke at about 150k total rounds. Smith replaced it, but it took more than 9 weeks to do it.
At 200k, I was plagued by light primer strikes. The local gunsmith replaced the main spring in the grip, cleaned it, and it worked off and on.
I bought a replacement firing pin and an extended travel firing pin. They are the same, save for the size of the travel groove cut out.
My factory firing pin was visibly shorter. I wasn't reloading at the time, so I didn't have calipers. But it was between 2 and 3 sheets of postit note shorter.
Anywho, long story about the best/worst revolver I have ever cleaned.
I don't shoot it as much anymore. It now sports a red dot and still enjoys range days.
I bought it, took it home, gave it a good scraping, swabbing, and oiling. I went to the gun range and fired it. It was keyholing and you about needed a hammer to drive the 22lr cases in and out of the chambers.
Back to the house we went. Plugged the chambers and barrel with pieces of earplugs and filled it with hoppes.
2 days later, I used a drill and a bore brush on the chambers and the barrel.
Only then did I grasp what 100000 22LR rifle bullets do to a revolver.
I ordered a Lewis lead remover and used the smallest patch to clean all 10 cylinders. 3/4-inch-long tubes of lead popped out.
I could not seemingly pull hard enough to get the Lewis lead remover patch through the barrel. I tried off and on for an hour. I simply couldn't hold it in one hand and pull with the other.
I didn't have a vise at the time, but I had decent woodworking clamps. I clamped one to the frame without the grip and stuck that between my legs.
I pulled even when I felt my back pop.
Slowly, little lead strands started to emerge from the barrel. It took an extra 20 minutes to pull the brass patch through. With it came 6-inch twisted slivers of lead.
Then, my friends, it took another twenty-five passes with the Lewis lead remover to get the barrel in shape to run a .22 caliber jag through it.
Total time cleaning this revolver. About a week. It shot beautifully after that.
I moved from CT to VA, and the hand broke at about 150k total rounds. Smith replaced it, but it took more than 9 weeks to do it.
At 200k, I was plagued by light primer strikes. The local gunsmith replaced the main spring in the grip, cleaned it, and it worked off and on.
I bought a replacement firing pin and an extended travel firing pin. They are the same, save for the size of the travel groove cut out.
My factory firing pin was visibly shorter. I wasn't reloading at the time, so I didn't have calipers. But it was between 2 and 3 sheets of postit note shorter.
Anywho, long story about the best/worst revolver I have ever cleaned.
I don't shoot it as much anymore. It now sports a red dot and still enjoys range days.