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My 45 sporter underhammer isnt set up to carry a ramrod. (My heavy barrel, and the 54 I built are) Any innovative ways for carrying a 31" stick around? Been racking my brains on trying to make a field expedient sectional or something. If I figure it out, I am sure I will be a rich man...
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If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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This guy is a member here. campfire handle lwh723 He may be able to make something up to work for you http://www.smokelessmz.com/ramrods.html
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Look real good, but since I am shooting lead and Holy Black in shallow rifling - I gots to run a patch down it.
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You could just carry yourself a hickory rod down the bore with an extra 5 or 6 inches sticking out. Might not be the handiest for the stalk. But Makes handy shooting stick when to get to your set down shooting spot.
Easiest and cheapest thing I can think of.
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Damn, Bob, I'd end up arrowing a deer and hammering it with a maxiball.
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Good question. I never thought about that. I wonder if a sectional ramrod constructed like those folding white canes blind people use could be viable? Probably wouldn't be the sturdiest thing but maybe strong enough to load a PRB if it weren't too terribly tight? Just thinking out load. I've seen blind guys stand up, zip-zip-zip snap their canes open, and go taptaptapping away.
One of these days I'll stop admiring underhammers out of the corner of my eye and get myself one.
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I've come up with an idea.
I need to prototype it.
And yes, gnoahhh, you need an underhammer.
If nothing else, a slim 32 for squirrel.
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RWE- Another idea:
Obtain a GI M-1 Garand Buttstock sectional rod cleaning kit. Amazon has replicas for <$20 if you can't find an original. Rod sections are about 6" long, which is pretty handy, but you can carry them joined as pairs in 1-foot lengths to save assembly time.
Rod is 0.25" dia on mine. Depending on your barrel length, you may have to find some additional sections.
Obtain jags, patch puller, and ball puller (I like the sharp pointy ones from TOTW), threaded 8-32.
You may have to select one of the rod sections and file off some of the female end to make the non-GI tips.
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Damn, Bob, I'd end up arrowing a deer and hammering it with a maxiball. Now that's funny. I was shooting with a friend one day, and he shot his ramrod through the target and into a gravel pile. He he hit the bullseye ---sideways. Ken
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Damn, Bob, I'd end up arrowing a deer and hammering it with a maxiball. Only reason I brought it up was it was an old timers method for packing an extra rod.
Last edited by kaywoodie; 09/30/16.
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You could just carry yourself a hickory rod down the bore with an extra 5 or 6 inches sticking out. Might not be the handiest for the stalk. But Makes handy shooting stick when to get to your set down shooting spot. I was going to suggest the same thing! A friend that does that ties 3-4 splayed saddle hackle feathers at the end that sticks out of the muzzle, so in case he does pick up the arm to his shoulder in haste ... in a moment of excitement and forgetfulness ... then hopefully he'll notice the feathers at the end of the muzzle. FYI, old-time Schuetzen shooters used false muzzles to load the miniball down from muzzle to above the chamber - on cartridge breech loaders (Ballard, Win high wall, Stevens 44-1/2, etc.) - and there were holes cut into the face of the muzzle that mated to pins in the false muzzle, where a large tab BLOCKED the front globe sight if they put the arm to their shoulder and 'forgot' to remove the false muzzle.
All of my MZL'drs will shoot into ONE ragged hole ALL day long ... it's just those darn 2nd & 3rd+ shots that tend to open up my groups!
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FYI, those feathers can also detect wind currents/shifts you may not notice. All my hunting buddies and I tie a small feather to the 1st ramrod pipe w/ light thread for such a purpose.
All of my MZL'drs will shoot into ONE ragged hole ALL day long ... it's just those darn 2nd & 3rd+ shots that tend to open up my groups!
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