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Maggie’s Barrel Weevils Are Real!

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Swamp Rat
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I have an early Savage .338LM FCP that saw a lot of use 6-10 years ago, but sat out unloved for the last few years. Today I decided to take it out and clean it up. A cursory visual down the barrel showed something about half way down, so to clean out the dust (and apparently also copper corrosion) I wet a patch and ran it through.

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Now I kid you not, this was not a staged photo nor a fake. This was actually in the bore. And I did not put it in there. This is how the patch came out.
 
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Mike Casselton said:
Did you run out of oatmeal and cause the weevil to move to a new home?
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Hahaha! I forgot that I told you that story. 😂🤣😂

Well actually…
I recall that a couple years back, while moving things around, the rifle sat unloved in the dry garage. It must have been around the same time that I found a lot of weevils in a bag of birdseed my wife had in the garage. It’s the only thing that I can figure.
 
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