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Topic: Bring your cleaning rod, dude!
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Leonard
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posted March 02, 2014 01:51 PM
So, I was watching the Military Channel yesterday and it was the war in the Pacific. These Marines were being loaded into landing craft and I happened to get a quick look at one guy with a cleaning rod stuck in his backpack!
Great idea!
I do one of two things, bring at least two rifles on a hunt and/or make sure I have a long one piece cleaning rod stuck into a fold of the padding of the camper shell.
Have I managed to have a need, you say? Yes, actually. Not often, but once in a while it comes in handy.
And, you people should take one along. I assume this is not news to our dedicated hardcore, out in FLYOVER COUNTRY?
Good hunting. El Bee
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Dave Allen
Hi, I'm SUPER DAVE, IN CHARGE OF Q STUFF (and Goat Leader) "I'm really not trying to be a dick".
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posted March 02, 2014 02:08 PM
Good thinking. Haven't had the need as of yet, but, it only takes once.
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Leonard
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posted March 02, 2014 05:40 PM
I was using a buddies gun, a 6-250AI that I decided to buy. But he liked to seat bullets jamming into the lands. Well, I opened the action, leaving the bullet in the bore and dumping spherical powder into the trigger group.
Tapping the bullet out was simple, unscrewing the jag. But cleaning the action in the dark was another matter.
So, (personally) I never jamb but other things can happen, you know? Word to the wise....and if you do, shoot it, don't try ejecting a loaded round.
Good hunting. El Bee
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DanS
Scorched Earth (AZ Sector)
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posted March 02, 2014 05:56 PM
BTDT, GOT THE T-SHIRT
Scopes can get stupid too.
I carry a rod and an extra rifle in the truck.
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted March 05, 2014 05:11 PM
Same here. About six years ago, a guy I was with had a rifle he'd just picked up from another guy to test out. Some wildcat round and the loads he was shooting had apparently over shot the brass because the first shot he took, the back half of the brass ejected, leaving the shoulder and neck of the casing in the breech of the rifle. You guessed it. We were 25 miles from home and had no way to tap that thing out of there. Raced home, got a cleaning rod and it slid right out, but cost us some prime hunting time. That same shot, he winged the coyote and I had to run it down and finish it off with my Mossy. I hit a clump of grass with my left foot and the result was a trip to the doctor, an MRI, and a week later, my first knee surgery for torn cartilage. Ended my season.
Anyway, back to the original point, I keep a cleaning rod under the back seat in my pickup now with the jack handle.
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knockemdown
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posted March 06, 2014 04:10 PM
I once used a trucks radio antenna and a rock to beat open an AR action after a case head separation. Good times!
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Paul Melching
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posted March 07, 2014 05:17 AM
Fred
was that AR am or fm, good Mcgyver.
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Leonard
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posted March 07, 2014 07:36 AM
Once used hot coffee, (no cleaning rod) to clear snow and mud from my buddies Weatherby. Then, we marched back out and he did it again! No liquor involved. Sloppy conditions, nnorthern Colorado.
Good hunting. El Bee
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Prune Picker
AR Forum Assistant Moderator-handgun GURU and dispenser of sage advice
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posted March 07, 2014 01:05 PM
Beware of Gel Coat gun stocks in the rain! They become high priced slip and slides. I spudded a then new custom barreled wildcat in the mud, thankfully I had an Outters cleaning kit in the truck, so the shame was only temporary.
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