Last chance MZ buck??????

[Bottom Hunter]

Well, this morning I will fire off the MZ, one way or another...lol.

I have to pick the wife up at the memphis airport this afternoon, so if I don't get him this morning I'll fire it off and clean it when I get home.....I sure hate to waste a cap, powder and bullet, so here's to success this morning....!!!

I wonder if there is anyway to make a MZ that you can UNLOAD?

I guess with the bullet fitting so tightly in the barrel, it might be difficult to get out. I guess you could take the primer off, unscrew the breach and take the powder pellets out and push the bullet out ...????

Might be dangerous...huh???

oh well, just a thought....

 

[EastTNHunter]

I guess you could take the primer off, unscrew the breach and take the powder pellets out and push the bullet out ...????

This is what I have always done at the end of the season.

 

[Bottom Hunter]

I guess you could take the primer off, unscrew the breach and take the powder pellets out and push the bullet out ...????

This is what I have always done at the end of the season.

really?

I never have, but then again, I started with a CVA Blazer and just got used to shooting the bullet out.....

I may try this.....someday..lol.

 

[waynesworld]

Shooting is more fun

 

[MUP]

I did that...once. Too dang messy, even more so than cleaning one after being shot imo. I'd rather just use that last shot as a target shot to check my zero.

 

[bowriter]

If I unload mine, I just take the breech plug out and do it that way. I often use mine during the rifle season.

 

[BigD_625]

I usually shoot to unload, just to make sure it would have gone off on a deer. This year, I shot 4 times opening morning and had to clean it then. To keep from having to clean the barrel again, I just pushed the pellets and bullet out the breech. All I had to do was brush out the breech and relube the plug threads. I know how I'm going to do it from now on.

 

[bigtex]

I did that...once. Too dang messy, even more so than cleaning one after being shot imo. I'd rather just use that last shot as a target shot to check my zero.

Me too, it was even more messy since I use "loose" 777. It can be done but you always run the risk of getting powder into the action, safety etc.
BTW mine is a Remington 700.
I just shoot it out.

 

[BigD_625]

I did that...once. Too dang messy, even more so than cleaning one after being shot imo. I'd rather just use that last shot as a target shot to check my zero.

Me too, it was even more messy since I use "loose" 777. It can be done but you always run the risk of getting powder into the action, safety etc.
BTW mine is a Remington 700.
I just shoot it out.

My Rem 700 will likely be using BH209 next year, so that will probably change my strategy for unloading/cleaning. :wink:

 

[W C]

It can be done but you always run the risk of getting powder into the action, safety etc. BTW mine is a Remington 700.I just shoot it out.

One of the essential tools that the Rem 700s came with is a tube that screws in after removing the breech plug. It's the same OD diameter as the bolt, about a foot long and about .70 ID. It allows for unloading, cleaning, etc without any possibility of getting anything in the trigger group. Do you not have this tube?

 

[morgancountry]

I shoot pellets. In the wolf I just take the breach plug out and push it out the back, then throw the powder and sabot away. Of course this might change next year since im switching to BH209.

 

[dh1984]

I guess you could take the primer off, unscrew the breach and take the powder pellets out and push the bullet out ...????

This is what I have always done at the end of the season.

Me too that is the only way i unload mine if i don't get anything for MZ season.

Then take a new grease gun with high temp white lithum grease and fill it full untill next season.

Then do the oput side of the barrle for rust protection.

 

[z7x]

Unloading is simple for me. Break down then take out quick breach then done.

 

[Urban_Hunter]

I turn my gun upside down when I pull the breech plug... then hold it over a trash can and push the bullet out. All the mess goes in the trash can and gravity keeps powder from getting in the action. Simple.

PS. Ive never heard of filling the barrel full of grease... sounds like a waste of a BUNCH of grease? May be worth it though!

 

[switchbacker]

ive never heard of greasing a barrel either, please explain

 

[bigtex]

One of the essential tools that the Rem 700s came with is a tube that screws in after removing the breech plug. It's the same OD diameter as the bolt, about a foot long and about .70 ID. It allows for unloading, cleaning, etc without any possibility of getting anything in the trigger group. Do you not have this tube?

Yes, I still have it along with all the other tools, [breach plug wrench. extension for the ram rod, etc] I have "pushed" the load out the breach a time or two, but still just about as messy, especially with loose powder which packs up really tight and is hard [in my experience] to remove. Pellets would probably not be a problem. The tube that you are refering to does come in really handy for cleaning though.

 

[Mike Belt]

I've always pushed the unfired bullet out as well.

 

[Bottom Hunter]

I have an older model inline....Black Knight....not as easy as it sounds like for some here...

I shot it anyway because just as I was leaving a yote walked up....BAD TIMING on her part....lol.