Trappers Cabin Season 2 Part 6 Single Shot Maintenance

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so I'm out of the water line today setting a few more make traps and I've got someone tins and I put some pocket sets in now with some single long Springs and if I just take a break start a fire mix with coffee I've got this new spoon and cup here Tuukka from Alexander York's I picked up a hen in Texas and I thought I'd drink my first cup of coffee out of that on the trapline just kind of hasn't honored to Alexander's a great guy and he does fantastic work but I thought I would just take a break out here for a little while this is part of the the romance I guess of being on a trapline is just to you every once in a while stop and not think about where you're gonna put your next trap is there an animal in the next trap I'm going to come up to things like that just stop and relax and sit and listen

I got so I'm back at the cabin late this afternoon

I did a little bit of scouting today for some things for our upcoming basic classes next year as well as working on the trapline this morning putting a couple more sets I'm kind of extending my water set line as I go here with the cabin series I thought what I do is real quick go over the maintenance of this 12-gauge you know a guy made a comment the other day this is kind of like the 21st century trade gun if you go back to my twenty-first century long runner series you'll see that that's exactly the way I feel about this single-shot twelve gauges it's like the modern day trade gun shoots multitudes of different ammunitions very very reliable very durable and it's just an all-around great gun and the only thing you really have to do is keep it clean so I have not cleaned this one for a while I hate to admit that but I haven't I keep most of the things I need to clean this thing in my shooting bag in case I want to clean in the field but I also keep balanced all a rust eraser in case I get some rust on the gun itself somewhere before I get to it and just a few extra rags that I used to pull through the barrel and then I've got a barrel an actual barrel rod made by outers a wooden one I'll show you that in a minute that I use as well but the easiest way to do this really without even having to take the gun apart and I do keep a screwdriver in here that I found at a flea market and I'll show it to you here dig it out of this bag with all the goodies I've got in here we'll kind of walk through this I guess a little that time a few minutes find my screwdriver here in the bottom of the bag already pulled it out work it's just a old-style Phillips screwdriver that works to take both the buttstock off butt plate excuse me as well as the fore end but you really don't have to use that what I generally do is I keep a hank of number 36 bank line and I've just got a metal rod that I've drilled a hole in and wallowed out a little bit right here that makes a t-handle like a toggle that I can pull on and it's just a piece of I think it's quarter-inch steel rod and just made it up in the shop real quick drill the whole thing the middle hollowed it out give you a close-up of it here and just kind of cone the ends of it so it doesn't it's not rough or anything and I use that just like a bore snake so all I need to do is uncoil this rope very simple process there and then I just tie whatever I'm going to pull through the bore of this thing whether that be a piece of steel wool or whether that be a rag right through the barrel by dropping this heavy end down through and then pulling the swab so I've got some steel wool here can I keep my bag as well

and a rag and then I've got some oil as well and I always keep an extra cigarette lighter in there and that's screwdriver so I'm just going to pull off about a quarter of this and I'm just going to tie a quick self tightening a loop in the end of this then I can get out fairly easily and cinch it up tight just like that and then I'm just gonna spray that down with ballast off and I prefer balanced all to most things when it comes to cleaning my metal but I'm not real picky a lot of times either I'll use whatever I've got the oil it with but if I've got the ballast all around I'll definitely use that then all you have to do is just draw this metal piece through the barrel let it fall all the way through just like a bore snake get on the other end and just yank that dude through and I'll do that several times and I'll do it from both directions generally speaking and they'll just remove the major amounts of crud out of the barrel then I'll swab it to get the heavy stuff out the other thing the steel wool gives you the advantage of is being able to clean around the sights clean right around the breech area and things like that really well to scrub any rust you've got writing up reach out and things like that you can see that's pretty dirty in there so I'm gonna go ahead and shoot that thing what bow saw one more time go from the other direction a couple of times as well but one out of the red would work you can even use a bolt for that if you wanted to I just like having that toggle on there so I can pull a rag through it if I get something in there good and tight I've got plenty of leverage to pull it out then I can just undo that and dispose of it now I'm just going to take this rug that I've got here I'm gonna divide it in half this is about a six by six piece of shop rag here and I'll just cut it in half and I'm gonna do the same thing with that as far as tying it onto the end and it's a loop here and dragging it through the barrel I'm gonna spray the first one with bowel stall and the second one's going to be dry now funding to run a brush through there a steel brush or something I carry one of these in the cabin with me or in my cleaning kit I've got in there in my wooden box and it's just like a scrubbing brush and I put it on there backwards because it's got a loop I on this end but this ends screws into a rod that I don't have the connector for for the brass rod I probably got it somewhere but this works just as easy so I use it most of the time and this is easy as dropping it through there and doing the same exact thing just dropping that toggle through the barrel and pulling through and that will screw up any remaining stuff I got stuff sitting there and this again is where that t-handle is gonna come in real handy for you and again go both ways of that thing I took this camera off the tripod for a minute just to kind of go over this with you real fast so if you've got an old a.k oiler here it's got oil in it just a regular like three in one oil I've got that makeshift bore snake type deal and I made four drop it down the bore to clean the screwdriver up out of steel wool the steel scrub brush and then an oily rag to wipe it down with when I'm done and that's pretty much am i shooting back most at a time this I leave in the cabin everything else I take with okay guys so that was pretty much it I mean I've got an oily rag here that he used to wipe it all down with when I'm done just to keep it from rusting and again that's what I love about these guns they're just so simple to maintain there's really nothing to it it's not a hard process you can pretty much make all of the gear that you would need to maintain this thing with other than getting yourself some oil cut up old t-shirt for rags you don't have to spend a lot of money to maintain this gun and that's one of my favorite things about it is it's so simple

and so cheap I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance outfitting the pathfinder school wipers you guys join me today for this part six I believe it is in the cabin Souter it's just a short little bebop around started a fire made some coffee on the trapline came back clean the old 12-gauge nothing particular but I thought I would just you know a day-in-the-life type of thing everyday I'm going to try to shoot something of what I'm doing that day and put it in this cabin serious I appreciate your views I appreciate your support thank you for you for school for a family in for business all of our sponsor instructors affiliates and friends and I'll be back to the other video as soon as I can thanks guys