Bore light and TC Greyhawk ?????

I bought a used TC Greyhawk from a dealer. He knocked some $ off and had me wait while he dug up a bore light. Never saw anything like it. Green light that he dropped down the bore. I looked in and saw "something" about a foot from the muzzle. He said it was rust, not pitting and just to pay careful attention to it every time I cleaned the gun and to always check it every couple weeks even if I was not using the gun. Nice enough guy and I have no idea why he showed this to me.

So I get home and take the barrel off. Hmmm, I can't look down the barrel, the piece holding the nipple is in the way. The muzzle looks new when I look down it, but I can only see an inch down it with the naked eye.

So how do I tell if I cleaned this properly? Get the same bore light I guess. What do you guys use?

I was going to saturate a Scotchbrite pad with JB Bore Paste and run it up and down 50 times.

I noticed was that the ramrod appeared to be made painted wood with silver metal caps and that it fits loosely enough that it could fall out. I assume that one cannot tighten this and that I want a better metal or fiberglass ramrod anyway.

He told me the nipple was new. It appears to have some pink grease on it. Nor does it appear new, so I am not sure what the point was for the salesman in even bringing it up. Are nipples replaced very often?

Running 4 windex patches through, they come out looking like I used them to dab coffee off my shirt. Is this good? Bad? In between?

Lastly, what is the part number of a scope mount for a Greyhawk?

wreckhog said:

I bought a used TC Greyhawk from a dealer. He knocked some $ off and had me wait while he dug up a bore light. Never saw anything like it. Green light that he dropped down the bore. I looked in and saw "something" about a foot from the muzzle. He said it was rust, not pitting and just to pay careful attention to it every time I cleaned the gun and to always check it every couple weeks even if I was not using the gun. Nice enough guy and I have no idea why he showed this to me.

So I get home and take the barrel off. Hmmm, I can't look down the barrel, the piece holding the nipple is in the way. The muzzle looks new when I look down it, but I can only see an inch down it with the naked eye.

So how do I tell if I cleaned this properly? Get the same bore light I guess. What do you guys use?

I was going to saturate a Scotchbrite pad with JB Bore Paste and run it up and down 50 times.

I noticed was that the ramrod appeared to be made painted wood with silver metal caps and that it fits loosely enough that it could fall out. I assume that one cannot tighten this and that I want a better metal or fiberglass ramrod anyway.

He told me the nipple was new. It appears to have some pink grease on it. Nor does it appear new, so I am not sure what the point was for the salesman in even bringing it up. Are nipples replaced very often?

Running 4 windex patches through, they come out looking like I used them to dab coffee off my shirt. Is this good? Bad? In between?

Lastly, what is the part number of a scope mount for a Greyhawk?

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A poor mans bore light is easy to make. Take a piece of aluminum foil (Reynolds wrap) and wad that up in to a ball SMALLER THEN THE BORE of the rifle. Drop that down the bore then hold a flashlight off to the side and shine it down the bore. The foil will reflect a little light and allow you to see a little bit inside the bore. Or you can take a 44 mag brass casing and shine it with some brasso and tape the open end shut. Drop that down the bore and again with a flash light, you can see a little of the bore better that way.

I finally had Semisane find me a flashlight that I can slide down a .45 or .50 caliber and it will slide back out, The light is a little bright, but since I am not, it works fine for looking in the bore.

JB Bore Paste is a great way to clean a barrel. Make sure you oil the bore first, and that you clean all the bore paste out of it. Give the rifle a good VERY HOT water bath with some good soap in the water. After that a nylon brush and some good solvent, and scrub that barrel real well. Then start running solvent patches through it to pick up anything knocked loose and to wipe away any rust.

Do not get all worried if you do see rust. I bought a Wolverine from a fellow that had a "good bore." Well I would hate to see his bad bore. But I cleaned the barrel up and it shoots fine.

The Ramrod. Cains Outdoors sell a "Super Rod" that can not be broken and then ends are pinned. They are a great ramrod, look great, and are perfect for a replacement rod. Plus they are light. You start putting a brass or stainless steel ramrod in there and it adds weight. Also there is a Ramrod retention spring in a lot of guns. Normally in the stock or on the barrel itself. See which way it is facing and with a little pliers, you can bend that a little to add more tension. If the ramrod is wedged in a channel, like a T/C Black Diamond then I just took some pine and made wedges to pinch the ramrod channel a little. The barrel holds them in place and it makes the ramrod nice and snug. Cost... five cents.

The pink grease on the nipple threads might be anti seize. That is a good thing actually. And yes nipples do wear out, but it takes a lot of shots out of the rifle to do so. Look at the nose of the nipple. Is it pounded flat or curled on the edge? If not is it probably good. Don't let the pink grease bother you, mine is green colored.

If your running patches through it and they are coming out gray or light brown, it means there is still some crud in there. Also be aware, some solvents react to the brass end of the ramrod and will give you some crazy colors. But I would get a good solvent or some brake cleaner. Take the barrel off. Take it outside and spray the INSIDE ONLY down with the brake cleaner. Keep brake cleaner away from woods and plastic. Let it sit a while then take a bore brush and start scrubbing. Flush it with more brake cleaner and then patch it clean. Sooner or later them patches will come clean although I have a rifle that always gives me a gray patch. I see no rust in it, it shoots fine, so I just oil it up and leave it.

As for the part number for the scope mount, call T/C and they can set you up with that...

I realized that scrubbing out the barrel would be a PITA with just a stock ramrod. Looked in the closet and found some old fiberglass tent poles. The solid kind with metal caps on the ends to fit together. Looked exactly like a slightly longer ramrod to me. So I mixed up some epoxy and cut a new Scotch Brite pad into 3 strips. The first strip is drying in place with a rubber band around it right now (only own 1 rubber band). Left a bit of the pad dangling off the end of the rod to better clean the breech as it get compressed down there. Hopefully I won't need to buy a patch worm to dig this contraption out.

you want to be very careful using fiberglass as it's very abrasive and could mess up the crown of your barrel.i would suggest you buy or make a muzzle protector........karl

I used HD Scotch Brite, the green stuff. Pushed it about 1" into the muzzle and pulled it out. Bore never touched the fiberglass. Lots of fine scratches. Back to the drawing board.