people use the strangest things as cleaning tools

8531sgt · March 12, 2004, 22:42

Got this Remington 740 today that for some reason the owner thought it'd be a good idea to use a chain saw file to knock the rust out of the bore. Got it stuck, so the brainiac, using all two of his functioning brain cells, thought Hey, I'll poke this other file down there and that'll work.
broke that one right off, and both were securely affixed to the chamber/bore.

8531sgt · March 12, 2004, 22:46

here's what was in there. and it's relative position.
Took an old FAL op rod down the muzzle to get it all out.
Can't say that the rifling or chamber is in "pristine" condition after the beating it took to get the foreign matter removed but it wasn't cherry before either, as you can see by the crud on the breach. Almost the dirtiest gun I've ever worked on.

Da Nerd · March 12, 2004, 23:09

Sell him a new barrel and keep the files so he wont use them again.

recce · March 13, 2004, 01:07

Or stab him in the heart with the now damaged barrel and chalk it up to Firearm Darwinism.

The replacement of a stupid, backwards Bubba Species by one that is more refined and intelligent.

**perryturner** · March 13, 2004, 01:45

I'm kind of surprised he didn't just try shooting it out.

DaisyCutter · March 13, 2004, 04:53

My dad uses the "J" shaped clear plastic piece that was originally designed to be a "laser-gun" on a STAR_WARS Imperial 4-legged walker I got for Christmas about 20 years ago as a fiber optic bore lighting device when he's cleaning guns.

Shortly after I received the toy for Christmas, the piece mysteriously went missing. Now it's the only surviving part of the toy. I currently see similar devices for sale that are intended for that exact same purpose.

March 13, 2004, 04:53	#6
DaisyCutter Registered FALaholic #: 9744 Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: AZ Posts: 731	My dad uses the "J" shaped clear plastic piece that was originally designed to be a "laser-gun" on a STAR_WARS Imperial 4-legged walker I got for Christmas about 20 years ago as a fiber optic bore lighting device when he's cleaning guns. Shortly after I received the toy for Christmas, the piece mysteriously went missing. Now it's the only surviving part of the toy. I currently see similar devices for sale that are intended for that exact same purpose. __________________ "In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatment can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose." - J. Robert Oppenheimer

Thread Tools
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Display Modes
Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode

March 12, 2004, 23:09	#3
Da Nerd Registered FALaholic #: 10960 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Colorado Posts: 3,022	Sell him a new barrel and keep the files so he wont use them again.

March 13, 2004, 01:07	#4
recce Registered FALaholic #: 153 Join Date: Jul 2000 Posts: 865	Or stab him in the heart with the now damaged barrel and chalk it up to Firearm Darwinism. The replacement of a stupid, backwards Bubba Species by one that is more refined and intelligent.

March 13, 2004, 01:45	#5
perryturner Senior Member Gold Contributor FALaholic #: 6271 Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Seabrook, Texas Posts: 891	I'm kind of surprised he didn't just try shooting it out.