pulling a load

MacEntyre said:
Today I learned that below the torn up sabot is a lot of oily, granular, black, dirty stuff. Must not have been dry-saboted. I wonder why they didn't jus' choot it!
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Does this mean you got the thing out? Or just made a hole in it
 
Get a long piece of steel rod from Home Depot or Lowes and heat it with a torch red hot and stick it to the lead and melt it. Might take several tries, but eventually you will melt it enough that it sill probably fall out
 
Etruett, the boolit is outa there... what's left is a mangled plastic sabot and some oily nitrate cake.
 
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Grits said:
Use a patch puller to grab the sabot or break it into pieces.

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Those sabots are tuff. It would likely destroy the patch puller.

MacEntyre said:
That ain't worked so far... today, the nipple is out and the barrel is going with me to an air compressor.
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Unfortunately if there is a hole thru it the air might not work now. It is possible the slurry of wet powder can seal the hole enuff to get it out. Let's hope so.
 
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a coat hanger...
a butane torch...
an air compressor...
a whole lotta brake cleaner...
...and the sabot is burned up, melted, blown out, dragged out and gone, but for a tiny rim that's stuck to the walls. Time to load her up and blast the rest out with black powder!

Then I can start shining up the bore.
 
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MacEntyre said:
a coat hanger...
a butane torch...
an air compressor...
a whole lotta brake cleaner...
...and the sabot is burned up, melted, blown out, dragged out and gone, but for a tiny rim that's stuck to the walls. Time to load her up and blast the rest out with black powder!

Then I can start shining up the bore.
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Man, that was a whole lotta work for an old muzzle loader...
 
MacEntyre said:
...and the sabot is burned up, melted, blown out, dragged out and gone, but for a tiny rim that's stuck to the walls. Time to load her up and blast the rest out with black powder!
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I never doubted that you would get it out. Good on ya
 
MacEntyre said:
a coat hanger...
a butane torch...
an air compressor...
a whole lotta brake cleaner...
...and the sabot is burned up, melted, blown out, dragged out and gone, but for a tiny rim that's stuck to the walls. Time to load her up and blast the rest out with black powder!

Then I can start shining up the bore.
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you know in just about any Muzzleloader there is a breech plug even the old flintlocks. If you take it out you can clean the barrel proper. It's not a breech plug like on the newer guns but still a breech plug
 
it should look similar to this
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eddie0225 said:
you know in just about any Muzzleloader there is a breech plug even the old flintlocks. If you take it out you can clean the barrel proper. It's not a breech plug like on the newer guns but still a breech plug
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I refer you to my original post, where I said:

MacEntyre said:
Bought a Thompson 50 Hawken cheap today, on account o' there is a load stuck in it. It's soaking in penetrating oil right now. There is no breech plug. My polymer rod with screw extractor tip is stuck down there. It's well threaded into the lead down there, but nothing wants to come out. If I unscrew, the rod comes out and leaves the extractor down there. Eight inches of the rod is out of the barrel. I've done this before, and it wasn't as difficult. I think I'm gonna drill a hole through my polymer rod, to have something to tap against to get it out.

Once I get this load out, I'll have a nice $300 frontstuffer. Until then, it's a wallhanger! Anyone ever tackle a similar stubborn load?
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MacEntyre said:
It has a breech plug... dunno how they made that line disappear so well, but they did.

Now, how in the world do you get it off?
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big vise, big wrench, big cheater.
 
it is not clean enough to choot... the powder does not ignite.

It's like someone put cement in there... tough to get much to come out. The touch hole is so narrow, it won't ignite.
 
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It's nice, except for the barrel that needs attention and the breech plug that needs replacing.

Where are you? I'll ship it cheap and slow.

I'll go make pictures before this Alka-Selzer Cold Night medicine kicks in...
 
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Schattenreiter said:
Give me a little while. I am looking to see about available parts. What is wrong with the breech plug and is there a ramrod with it?
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Breech plug is all skinned up from trying to remove it.
It does have a ramrod.

Better decide soon... two others want it!
 
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