Case head separated - damaged rifle!

[Lead Waster]

I have a barrel cleaning process I use that is different than methods and or techniques used by smiths and reloaders. I had two dumpsters full of material that I could not hide so I had to learn to use the material.

reloaders and smiths spend a lot of time talking about the cleaning rod rubbing the muzzle and then there is the snake pull-through getting stuck. Anyhow I put some stuff together, the system is impossible to lock up, jam up.

I do believe I have two life times of material; I did consider if it was possible to replace the material should I run out. It was about that time my wife informed I have two machines in among all my junk that was designed to put the material together; with her help.

F. Guffey

I'm sorry, I have a hard time understanding what you are trying to say here.

[Lead Waster]

Typically bronze, but still primarily copper.

Yes I see. Brass = Copper + Zinc, Bronze = Copper + probably tin + other stuff.
So all alloys of copper, so copper dissolving solutions would "eat away" at either. So IN THEORY, if you had a stuck case and no other solution, you could probably keep swabbing copper solvent in there and eventually it might thin the stuck part enough that a bore snake could pull it out.

[Lead Waster]

He has scissors and lots of old clothes to make patches.

Ah, that makes sense. I thought he was being specifically evasive with "material", but I see he actually means material, as in cloth. Thanks man, I was quite confused.

[fguffey]

We all can have the same material and tools; it is obvious the patch material is the same but there has to be a difference in how the patches are made and the tool required to mate the patches is obscure.

F. Guffey