Wimuzzleman

I might have to try the tape thing

sabotloader

Wimuzzleman

There is a kinda ART to doing it correctly - or what I think is correctly so if you are speerimenting be sure to follow Cayugad's thought of just cracking the BP after 10 shots the re-snug it up. When you crack it though you stand a chance destroying the tape - but i do not want you to freeze your plug in place. If for some reason you do - please don't take the action out of the stock pour boiling water down the barrel - give it time to dissolve them try loosen the BP..

I might have a write up for taping I will have to look I know I have pictures...

i did find a copy if your interested let me know - I'll to e-mail it to you it is to long for a PM...

Wimuzzleman

thanks sabotloader any help would be great.

frontier gander

i used tape for a while too. You actually do want to back it off just a little after 3 or 4 shots. i left mine snug once and after6 shots i packed up, went inside to start cleaning it and it was froze up. Had to pull the barrel and use a small propane torch to heat the breech area for a minute and then it backed out. I stopped using tape after i hung my rifle up, then when to pull the breech plug and found the tape had dried to a crisp while it sat. Plus it was a pain cleaning it out of the threads. Im back to using the grease and just taking the time to back it out a little after 4 shots. Cleaning up the grease is easier than trying to get tiny little pieces of tape out of the threads. I guess the tape would be fine if you back the plug out some as soon as u are done shooting and dont let the barrel cool down.

skeeter 7MM

I am with sabotloader and others, useteflon tape. DareI say, never had a stuck plug. When at the range Ibreakthe breachwhile it is still warm as a precautionary measure. In the field not a concern.

I reverse wrap the teflon (to the leftfor righty..tighty)and make sure it is polished before screwing it in. I don't get any backing out and retain full coverage.

sabotloader

frontier gander

I gotta tell you FG I shoot 20-30 times at the rock pit and never touch my breech plug and it turns out just fine - started doing this with the Firebolt so I know it will work with a CVA... The key is if the plug goes in smoothly and if you look down the barrel do you see the tape all the way around the BP...

frontier gander

thats exactly what i did. What really turned me off was when i pulled the plug and it looked exactly what the bottom right hand pic looked like. i had 3 great tries with the tape but got turned off by having to use a tooth pick to scrape out the tape that was stuck in the threads. I got a entire tube of grease to use so i dont mind. I'll experiment with the tape again someday.

sabotloader

frontier gander


No No you don't pick it out - you get a breech brush push it in pull it out and it brings the old tape out... do this a couple of times and the breech threads will be clean and ready to go again...

http://www.basspro.com/servlet/catalog.TextId?hvarTextId=55530&hvarTarget=sea rch&cmCat=SearchResults

The bigger bottle brush on the left

sabotloader

Wimuzzleman

e-mail sent, but sometimes the e-mail from this site does not always work - so if you do not get it let me know and i will get you real e-mail from you in a PM and send it again...

frontier gander

toothpick worked for awhile untill i bought a .54 bore brush and found that it fit and worked. im cleaning my breech plug now and going to seal it with tape and see what i can see when i look down the bore.