Well, today I took my new rifle out to the range.
I was doing a simple break in, (1 shot, patch clean the bore, rinse/repeat)
anyway, I got to shot 5.
Thats when all hell broke loose.
So there I was, putting a patch on the jag, and putting a little windex on to remove fouling/residue. I slip the cleaning rod in, and it gets difficult halfway down the barrel. I cant pull it back, so i figure i'll just tap it out with a mallet and the patch will fall out the end.
NOPE.
Jag comes out, no patch to be found, and now the rod wont go anywhere.
I start pulling back on it, trying to see if it'll go the other direction. After mustering hte strength of me and several other range-goers, i get it to the final 1/4 of hte barrel. Home free, or so I thought.
Then to my disappointment, the *TIPTON* 1 piece rod decides to shit the bed, and the handle snaps off.
Great!, i've got a jagged ass piece of carbon fiber lodged in my barrel, and i look like a retard infront of all the onlookers around my bench.
I dropped my rifle at my gunsmiths office, and had a lot of curious "WTF" faces from people there...
Its days like today, that i realize god has a sense of humor. Also, fuck Tipton 1 piece carbon fiber rods. Never again.
Anyway, has this happened to anyone else?
I was doing a simple break in, (1 shot, patch clean the bore, rinse/repeat)
anyway, I got to shot 5.
Thats when all hell broke loose.
So there I was, putting a patch on the jag, and putting a little windex on to remove fouling/residue. I slip the cleaning rod in, and it gets difficult halfway down the barrel. I cant pull it back, so i figure i'll just tap it out with a mallet and the patch will fall out the end.
NOPE.
Jag comes out, no patch to be found, and now the rod wont go anywhere.
I start pulling back on it, trying to see if it'll go the other direction. After mustering hte strength of me and several other range-goers, i get it to the final 1/4 of hte barrel. Home free, or so I thought.
Then to my disappointment, the *TIPTON* 1 piece rod decides to shit the bed, and the handle snaps off.
Great!, i've got a jagged ass piece of carbon fiber lodged in my barrel, and i look like a retard infront of all the onlookers around my bench.
I dropped my rifle at my gunsmiths office, and had a lot of curious "WTF" faces from people there...
Its days like today, that i realize god has a sense of humor. Also, fuck Tipton 1 piece carbon fiber rods. Never again.
Anyway, has this happened to anyone else?