Black powder clean up in a lever gun
I am thinking of a Jesse rebore in either my 50 vintage 336RC or my 74 vintage mod 94 ,and am leaning towards the Marlin because it is one that I can reassemble unlike the 94 . But the marlin plus is side eject and although it means more to me and would be easier on cleanup , I am not sure how much is involved involving blackpowder for extended shooting/plinking before it becomes mandatory . The 94 is newer and doesn"t reassemble as easy but I am not attached to it like the marlin but one of these is going to become a 38-55 ,so what is involved with a lever gun for cleanup ? Thanks for any advice/Ed
Lever gun cleanup from BP loads
For me, its the Marlin hands down. Had a real mess/time into cleaning my M92 Win 44wcf
after running some bp loads thru it. So much nicer to easily remove the lever, remove the bolt
on my Marlin and push the BP fouling out the muzzle from the breech. Just don't forget to remove
the ejector before running the cleaning rod. I have a nice bore guide that slips into the Marlin,too
beltfed/arnie