The infamous drag on the jag

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Hes everyone, I just took out my beautiful longbranch no. 4 out to the range the other day and put a few rounds through it. When I got home I cleaned it, as usual. I finished up and ran a patch of oil through when I realized there was a bit of a roughness or drag at the beginning of the barrell. Has this happened to anyone? Should I be worried? I really like this rifle and I would hate to have to get rid of it or change anything on it. I clean my guns religously and I have heard of other barrels suddenly bulging from a weak spots or having rust, but that's when you don't take care of it. I cleaned this gun so that I would prevent crap like this from happening.

Sincerely


A scared cgn member
 
Can you see any roughness? Wipe it out, have a really good look. Sounds as if there is some fouling remaining. Sudden bulges in barrels occur when they are fired with obstructions, usually occuring near the muzzle. A bulge will be feel like a loose spot, not a drag.
 
If you run corrosive ammo through your guns, you have to clean with a water based solution, then oil it to displace the water.

ALL military surplus ammo MUST be considered corrosive. Yes, there were runs of non-corrosive Canadian .303 from WWI, but we loaded corrosive here well into the 1950s.

Usually light roughness will go away if you run 5+ rounds through your gun quickly, then clean it (assuming no bore obstruction).
 
No bore obstruction I'm pretty sure, and unfortunately I only use new .303 ammo. That corrosive stuff scares me. Cheap none the less, but it scares me. I think what I will do is give it a good cleaning, take it to the range again, fire it five times (thank you Lee Enfield) and see how it is. Thanks for the input gentlemen.

LS
 
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