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I just stepped up to a K-gun in 500 NE. I realized that all my cleaning equipment went up to .45 cal. I checked Midway, Graf and Sons and all the other likely suspects and could find bits and pieces of equipment. I am not a novice when it comes to rifle cleaning however, the double is new to me and any advise would be greatly appreciated. | ||
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32 gauge shotgun brush is closest but I use a 28 gauge brush when need be. It's a bit tight but works fine. Alternatively, Trader Keith has proper brushes and jags. Click Here for Treader Keith Stay well NRA Lifer; DSC Lifer; SCI member; DRSS; AR member since November 9 2003 Don't Save the best for last, the smile for later or the "Thanks" for tomorow | |||
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There are a lot of 50 caliber muzzle loading jags and brushes available. | |||
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Pull the .50/.54 caliber BoreSnake (Hoppes Model 24020) thru the rifle twice a year and you are good to go. Then put a little grease on the hinge pin. I think cleaning doubles is generally overrated and overdone. Mike | |||
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Mike, you may be right....at some point "cleaning" turns into "fondling" :-) | |||
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Remember that when you get the falling block double! Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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If you need brushes, check out the stuff they have for muzzle loaders. Lots of 50 caliber brush choices. I have a Thompson/Center Arms 50 caliber brush and when I look for patches, I just look in the muzzle loading section of the store or catalog. There is a lot of 50 cal stuff there. Incidentally Joe, I just picked up a K-gun in 500 NE as well. Love the gun. Dave DRSS Chapuis 9.3X74 Chapuis "Jungle" .375 FL Krieghoff 500/.416 NE Krieghoff 500 NE "Git as close as y can laddie an then git ten yards closer" "If the biggest, baddest animals on the planet are on the menu, and you'd rather pay a taxidermist than a mortician, consider the 500 NE as the last word in life insurance." Hornady Handbook of Cartridge Reloading (8th Edition). | |||
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.50 BMG stuff will work; they have a groove diameter of .510. There is no standard spec for muzzle loader barrels. | |||
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Thanks Guys: I thought about the muzzleloader route, just wasn't sure. | |||
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And I'm expecting that to be in by........................................? | |||
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I use muzzleloader stuff for my .505 but anything for the .50 BMG would be perfect too. | |||
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I bought some supplies from Kynamco. All is good quality but the threads don't match our rods. I bought .500, .577, .600 tips, jags, etc., and they are still as new! Cal _______________________________ Cal Pappas, Willow, Alaska www.CalPappas.com www.CalPappas.blogspot.com 1994 Zimbabwe 1997 Zimbabwe 1998 Zimbabwe 1999 Zimbabwe 1999 Namibia, Botswana, Zambia--vacation 2000 Australia 2002 South Africa 2003 South Africa 2003 Zimbabwe 2005 South Africa 2005 Zimbabwe 2006 Tanzania 2006 Zimbabwe--vacation 2007 Zimbabwe--vacation 2008 Zimbabwe 2012 Australia 2013 South Africa 2013 Zimbabwe 2013 Australia 2016 Zimbabwe 2017 Zimbabwe 2018 South Africa 2018 Zimbabwe--vacation 2019 South Africa 2019 Botswana 2019 Zimbabwe vacation 2021 South Africa 2021 South Africa (2nd hunt a month later) ______________________________ | |||
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Trader Keith sells the Kynoch jags and brushes for the NE cartridges along with other fun stuff. http://traderkeith.com/products.html Paul Smith SCI Life Member NRA Life Member DSC Member Life Member of the "I Can't Wait to Get Back to Africa" Club DRSS I had the privilege to fire E. Hemingway's WR .577NE, E. Keith's WR .470NE, & F. Jamieson's WJJ .500 Jeffery I strongly recommend avoidance of "The Zambezi Safari & Travel Co., Ltd." and "Pisces Sportfishing-Cabo San Lucas" "A failed policy of national defense is its own punishment" Otto von Bismarck | |||
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You can get adapters for the different brushes ect. at Sportman's Warehouse on Old Seward. NRA Life ASSRA Life DRSS Today's Quote: Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, a free cell phone with free monthly minutes, food stamps, section 8 housing, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe and some Air Jordan's and he votes Democrat for a lifetime. | |||
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