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Post by Woody Williams on Sept 30, 2020 9:51:35 GMT -5
I had a barrel obstruction once while on a park hunt. I killed a big doe the first day and when I was recovering it I tripped and fell - yeah I'm clumsy. I did not think much about it at the time. The next morning sitting in my stand before daylight for some unknown reason I stuck my finger in the end of my barrel. WOW, it was plugged up with dried mud. It's an 870 so I took the barrel off and boke a limb off the tree I was in and cleaned the barrel out. Sunrise was coming and I could look through the barrel to make sure it was clean. No telling what would have happened if I had shot it. Another time at Muscatatuk I was hunting with my TC Hawken MZ when I dropped it out of the stand. I told you I am clumsy. It stuck barrel first in the bottom ground mud. I got down and retrieved it. I used a screw in step to pull the mud out like a wine corkscrew. I then checked the barrel out with my ram rod. youtu.be/qizdtDav618
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2020 10:05:37 GMT -5
About 8 or 9 years ago one of our group hunters had that happen. Blow the shotgun into pieces. Luckily only minor cuts on face, neck and arms. Nothing major. Hearing was out for a couple days. Since I witnessed that I check every time when I get back in. Thanks for the reminder.
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Post by oldhoyt on Sept 30, 2020 10:11:59 GMT -5
My Marlin Slugmaster barrel got plugged with snow and Ice one morning. I noticed it on the ground but wanted to get up and settled in my stand as it was already getting light. I got up there, pulled up the gun, pulled a twig from a tree branch and began to clear the muzzle. It was cold out, so the cold barrel froze the obstruction pretty hard. I was thinking to myself that it would be about time for a big deer to come by, with me sitting there jamming sticks down the barrel. Luckily it was only a few does.
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Post by esshup on Sept 30, 2020 10:21:31 GMT -5
I put electric tape over the muzzle of the muzzleloader, and keep a couple of layers wrapped around the muzzle about an inch or two back from the muzzle as a replacement. Doesn't change the point of impact. Might start doing that to all the guns.
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Post by greghopper on Sept 30, 2020 10:24:31 GMT -5
Any certain brand or type of electric tape?
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Post by esshup on Sept 30, 2020 13:51:30 GMT -5
Any certain brand or type of electric tape? I typically use the good 3M stuff, so that's probably what is on the gun. 3M 33 I believe is what I have the most of.
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Post by stevein on Oct 2, 2020 9:57:46 GMT -5
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