krinko
Member
If I were to shoot the GOEX Black Dawg rounds in my historically inaccurate .45 caliber 1873s, would I have to go beyond removing the side plates and dust cover to get them clean?
When somebody stuck a +1/16" round in the tube and got it hung in the elevator, I had to take the butt off to get the dang thing out. This not something a sane man would want to do regularly.
I shoot the Snider and the Martini with the Holy Black---they're fairly simple mechanisms and appear to be designed for a regular tear-down scrubbing in the field.
Not the case with the Swiss Vetterli, the Mauser 71/84 or the lovely 1873s. (I read how Oliver Winchester impressed the Turks with his special Field Cleaning Technique, but if I do that, I will get kicked out of the rifle club tout de suite.)
Anyway, if you have experience here, let me hear about it, please.
-----krinko
When somebody stuck a +1/16" round in the tube and got it hung in the elevator, I had to take the butt off to get the dang thing out. This not something a sane man would want to do regularly.
I shoot the Snider and the Martini with the Holy Black---they're fairly simple mechanisms and appear to be designed for a regular tear-down scrubbing in the field.
Not the case with the Swiss Vetterli, the Mauser 71/84 or the lovely 1873s. (I read how Oliver Winchester impressed the Turks with his special Field Cleaning Technique, but if I do that, I will get kicked out of the rifle club tout de suite.)
Anyway, if you have experience here, let me hear about it, please.
-----krinko