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I have a .22lr IOF Rifle.once i was cleaning the barrel after the regular shoot with the Brass Brush attached to the nylon rope.the brush also had a small cloth attachment at the end.the cloth got in the bristles n the brush got stuck in the barrel.i had to pull it very hard to remove tht brush.MY QUES:HAVE I RUINED THE GROVES OF MY BARREL????
i have cleaned the barrel earlier before with the same brush without any problem.
PLZ HELP ME!!!!!

Raj: I think you can relax
It's a brass brush and brass is softer than steel No chance of damaging the bore.
You said "nylon rope", not mono filament, and I suppose you pulled in a straight line. I don't think you have anything to worry about - except maybe a spike in your blood pressure when the brush got stuck
Rest easy.

Ashok

thank you sir for your kind reply.
i wanna tell you tht the brass brush is made up of brass bristles attached to a twisted steel wire.
is there still nothin to wory about??

raj,

its only the brass bristles which will be in contact with the bore and they might not do any damage.remove the bolt and take a look through the bore.

cheers

As long as you pulled in a straight line and ensured that the muzzle (crown) wasn't scraped, you have nothing to worry about. Even if you did scrape the crown, once, you shouldn't have anything to worry about. Now go and sleep easy tonight

Ashok

hi everyone..
thank you so much for your replies...actually my rifle is submitted in the local police station due to the Elections in madhya pradesh.i will get it back on 17th dec.i m having sleepless nights from last week .please pray for my rifle groves..
thnx again.

regards
raj

raj";p="61586 wrote: hi everyone..
thank you so much for your replies...actually my rifle is submitted in the local police station due to the Elections in madhya pradesh.i will get it back on 17th dec.i m having sleepless nights from last week .please pray for my rifle groves..
thnx again.

regards
raj

It will take a bit more than what you have described to ruin the rifling...

Cheers!
Abhijeet

Raj.. What have you done!!!
Omigod.. the rifle is ruined.. before anyone finds out, you can sell it to me for a couple of thousands

Kidding brother. All is fine I guess, and as Indian suggests, look thru thr bore and satisfy yourself
.. All the best...

Mr.TenX ,
when i read the first two lines, it made my heart pounding out of my rib-cage.you really got me on this one..
but thank you for your reply.your post really released much of the my tension...
thank u for that piece of humuor...it really made me smile and will make me smile each time when i will hold my rifle..


i must also thank Mr.mundaire for his kind reply..

thank you all...
i m loving IFG!!!!
IFG ROCKS!!!

Till now your rifle was safe but as you wrote
:-.actually my rifle is submitted in the local police station due to the Elections in madhya pradesh.i will get it back on 17th dec..Start praying ,,i donn know about MP but in UP it is the worst place for guns..

Most of the people I know advise to keep the arms with a trusted dealer even if it costs some money. Police people generally handle them bad...

i would prefer a dealer and recommend the same to anybody there were many cases in AP where bolts,forend grips ,mags and sometimes,the gun itself went missing

Any reason why you would not just keep the bolt and magazine when required to turn in your rifle for "safe keeping"?

yes you can do that.but what about the gun.one of my relative deposited his 22hornet and the they painted his license number on the stock and the same was done to his S&W grips

... Another problem that I heard if, is that they 'paint' some numbers on the rifle, for identification sake... well, if they do that, I am sure a lot of faces would have raised eyebrows when the collect it back