O/T muddaubers in .270

GeneMO · Jun 23, 2008

I left my Remington 700 down at the farm shop for a couple of weeks. I picked it up to shoot a deer yesterday evening ( I have a destroy permit from the conservation department) and the danged mud daubers had plugged up the chamber!!!

A shell would not chamber. I took it home and spent about an hour cleaning the chamber. The firing pin was even plugged up. The bolt had been closed with no shell in the chamber.

Boy I wont do that again.

Ever happened to anyone else?

Gene

old · Jun 23, 2008

Never had it happen but an easy way to stop it is a rubber band and a plastic bag. You can even shot it with out removing it but then you might need a new bag. Grease also works but makes more of a mess.
Hobby farm

Anonymous-0 · Jun 23, 2008

They do cause problems don't they, darned things would build a nest in the 20 lb bbq propane tank coupling, that grit has to be blown or washed out 100%. Now I remember to put the cap on or tape em off, you always find one of these nests when you don't expect it.

I would disassemble the bolt and clean that reciever, chamber and bore meticulously, then check with a bore light or reflect some light in there so you can inspect it 100%.

Probably not the best place to leave a rifle, but it's where you need use it most likely, there is a lot inexpensive protective sleeves/cases you can buy tha might be of help.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 23, 2008

Yeah, when I was a little kid I got to see the top barrel of a Stevens 311 O/U 12 blow off, never really knew for sure but suspected wasps since it had been standing on the porch. On a semi-related note, when it was raining a lot a couple weeks ago and my main work truck wasn't moving much the mice started chewing the walnut grips off of my 1911A1 .45!

JML755 · Jun 23, 2008

(quoted from post at 12:29:25 06/23/08) Never had it happen but an easy way to stop it is a rubber band and a plastic bag. You can even shot it with out removing it but then you might need a new bag. Grease also works but makes more of a mess.
Hobby farm

"MIGHT need a new bag???", chuckle, chuckle. Very tongue-in-cheek and durn funny, too. Now that George Carlin passed, we need people to step up and fill in for his now-gone hilarious observations on the world.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 23, 2008

Just like a beaver will try to dam up any running water them daubers will try to plug every hole they find. Had those rascals plug the air breather holes in my weed eater.

robersw · Jun 23, 2008

Dad went to crank the weed eater a few weeks ago (back when we had enough rain to make weeds) and it wouldn't start. Found out they had clogged up the hole in the muffler. Never even thought about that kind of thing until then.

nw_bearcat · Jun 23, 2008

I would suggest strongly against filling the bore of a gun w/ grease in an effort to keep bugs out. I would guess that the grease would be enough of a resistance that you would create excessive pressures and run a higher risk of personal injury. When hunting or during storage in vehicles (we always carried a .22 in the rack of the farm pickup) we use electrical tape to cover the bore. The air ahead of the bullet will punch through the tape. If you leave a tail on one side, after that first shot, you can pull the tape off, and have enough to cover the bore for re-storage. Be sure to check that .270 for rust in that area where the daubers were, could also create pressure issues along with an accuracy loss.

Mike (WA) · Jun 23, 2008

We have Mason bees around here, and they find any hole (about 1/4 to 3/8 inch or so) and lay their eggs inside. IH 674 had a petcock in the intake manifold to open and spray ether, and every spring it would be clogged with their cocoon (white, silky stuff), with larvae inside.

old · Jun 23, 2008

Did I say fill the bore??? No I DID NOT I did say you could use grease and then you just put enough on the close off the end of the barrel and thats it. Or in other words just what you could put on the tip of your finger. Both ways I said are black power ways of hunting in the rain and both work

thurlow · Jun 23, 2008

A personal protective device also works, such as the old Greeks (Trojans) or the Arabs (Sheiks) used.

old · Jun 23, 2008

Yep I know it works because its also a black power trick when hunting in the rain

souNdguy · Jun 23, 2008

I use a piece of tape to cover things like fire extinguisher hose ends, etc.. darn mud daubers will get everywhere if you let them..

soundguy

matt a · Jun 23, 2008

that happened to me witha chainsaw and it took us a long time to find that out

tlak · Jun 23, 2008

I put golf tees in the ends of my air tools. Just leave the tee lay where the tool is stored them put it back in.

2x4 · Jun 23, 2008

not mud daubers but ladybugs! They will plug a .22 or .223 solid til a ramrod has to ram them a dozen times or more. Watch the guns in the corners!

Janicholson · Jun 23, 2008

Same here, level with the exterior, and it took an hour to figure it out. Homelight.
JimN

Anonymous-0 · Jun 23, 2008

I have a small pump and the exhaust was plugged with mud. Last thing you'd think you had to check. After pulling my hair out, I finally noticed it and after poking a screw driver through it, it started on the first pull. A day was wasted as I brought the pump home to work on it. #%$@*! Dave

ericlb · Jun 23, 2008

just use a rubber over the end of the barrel, i never had insects get in a gun, but once grandpa went to load a muzzle loader back in the 70's, it turned out to already have a charge in it! fortunatly for all there were no flies roosting on grandpa, and he knew when the ramrod wouldnt go in as far as it should that something was wrong, the gun was dissassembled and cleaned out without incident

greygoat · Jun 24, 2008

At a surplus store I once purchased a WWII
surplus waterproofing kit, unopened, in a GI
carton. It was made by 3M and was just some
Scotch Tape to put over the barrel, to keep out
water and dirt, in the South Pacific Jungles,
(New Guinea), directions said that you could
shoot through it !

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