How to Clean a Single Action Revolver : Tips & Tricks

Sam Cole introduced the modern single action revolver in 1873. they ran about 17 apiece and these guns are known mainly for winning the West I mean a 45 Colt it's just on the hip of a cowboy I mean it's just iconic and today they're still very popular Firearms it just really slows things down a bit pulling that hammer back with each shot taking aim loading it slow firing it slow I mean these are just great guns to take to the range and it expands your experience in Firearms we have a Ruger Blackhawk but also a Taylor smoke wagon which is based more toward the Colt design now we're sponsored by Otis and we're using one of the multi-caliber pistol kits they're also known for their boar snakes and providing the U.S military with cleaning kits and we really appreciate Otis for sending these kits all right guys we're going to go through three steps we're going to disassemble it we're going to clean it and then we'll reassemble this is a Ruger Blackhawk it's in 45 Colt we also have a Taylor smoke wagon and 45 cold as well we're not going to clean this one but I'm going to show you one thing that's different when you're cleaning a single election revolver than your standard rugers so the first thing you want to do is go ahead and open up our loading gate and we can just spin this around and you can see that the gun is unloaded now with the Taylor smoke wagon it's more like the colt and so we have to open up our loading gate and then we put it in half [ __ ] and then we can spin it so just a little bit different so first thing we want to do is remove our cylinder and so right here is your base pin latch and your base pin so we're just going to depress it pull this just straight out and then go ahead and open up your loading gate pull your cylinder out and now we have it out next we're going to remove the grips and of course you just have a small little screw here and you want to remove these grips because we're going to put this in the Vise just for the barrel cleaning but also you need to check your Springs underneath our ejector housing we're going to remove it there's a screw right here at the front now this is under spring tension and so it'll pop up but it won't fly out typically and just pull that loose there's your spring and here is your ejector rod and now we can pull out our base pan so one thing I like about Ruger it retains the base pin makes it really easy when you're taking these apart now when taking apart a cold style go ahead and take out your base pin and it comes all the way out drop your cylinder another difference with the Colt type actions is that this cylinder has a pin inside or a sleeve and so you want to clean that for sure and then you clean out this area but with this you can see there are no grip screws and so we have to take the grip off and it's not very difficult to do but it's just something that you need to know so right here you have two screws go ahead and take those out oh and then right here at the bottom you have a screw you need to just take it off and then this piece just comes all the way off you can see there's not really a back strap it's just part of the grip now when cleaning out your Barrel it's great to put it in a vise and we have a couple of Otis jaw protectors for your Vise and it has this slot right here so you can slide your Barrel in there and so as we put this in and then we just tighten it down it's just going to give us a really secure fit onto the revolver now we're going to using one of the Otis multi-caliber pistol kits and the first thing I'm going to do is to pull out our brass rod take your adapter go ahead and put it on screw it in and then we have a Jag and this is for 45 Colt or 45 caliber then we're going to take one of our cleaning cloths now we're using the Shooter's Choice fp10 CLP and this will get most of it clean but just in case I have some of the hoppies number nine and this is some solvent and we're going to go through it first we'll just take a little bit of that solvent put on here when you're pushing your bore brush through you can hit the back and just to keep it from damaging it we're going to take a cloth we're going to run it through and just tie it at the back let's just give you a little protection when that Rod comes through then we take our solvent put it through the bore just get all of that powder residue any lead and now we're going to put it through one more time and we're just going to let it set just like that next take your bore brush go ahead and attach it and then we're going to run it through with the solvent in there this is going to clean out everything you I do this about 10 times now we're going to run just a clean bore patch right through and we're looking to get this really clean and get that solvent out if it gets too dirty you can switch out your patches here we're going to run one last clean patch through just to make sure we've got everything out yeah that looks pretty good next let's take a clean patch go ahead and put it on your Jag and then we're going to take some of our CLP and just give it a light coat of oil you don't want a whole lot this just gives it a little protection and it gets any last minute residue out of there just keep doing that running patches until it turns out clean now obviously you don't have to use a vise but it sure does make the job a lot easier and I've just started doing that typically I'll just clean it right there at the table put the grip in the Vise this just gives you a little more stability again this is not necessary it just makes it easier just take your brush and just clean it nice just get in those crevices right there and those little angles you want to get the face right here where the firing pin is right here at your Barrel I mean you can see we've got a lot of debris in there and this will just keep it nice and clean you can use a little bore solvent if you have a lot of build up but if you clean these regularly you don't really need to one thing you can also do is to bring back your hammer and where the cylinder lock is it'll expose that a little bit that's about it now next we're going to clean out this cylinder and one of the things about the cylinder is where the rounds fire toward the end they typically really foul up right here and so we're going to go ahead and push it all the way through because there is some residue and I don't know if you can see it but it's definitely in there and we'll take some solvent just like we did the bore and go through you can feel that end it's really has some debris in there and as you push the Jag through you can man yeah that's got some build up really helps if you keep the patch kind of open and not bunched up but really we just need to go through it once maybe twice at the most but the big thing is that bore brush is going to get the rest of it and of course first we're going to let this set for just a minute and let that solvent work then take your bore brush just go through it about five times each cylinder making sure you just get that cleaned out also the face of the cylinder go and just clean it up sometimes this gets really dirty and so you want to make sure you just keep this clean here you can see I'm just using the brush nylon brush is working well sometimes it really cakes on so you need to use a little bit of solvent to get that off and then here at the back as well this doesn't tend to get as dirty but it's according to how much you're shooting and just examine it and you can tell if it's ready to go ahead and start putting the CLP in there I'm going to take a couple of cotton swabs and go through that center part where the base pin is because you know when you're firing the rounds I mean smoke and debris as you can see or all over but really just a little bit of cleaning kind of makes that just gets it clear also take one of these Q-tips and just run it up into my ejector housing you can see I mean it gets debris on there the smoke the gunpowder and guys just keep cleaning it until it comes out clean we're going to wipe down our spring and you can see it gets dirt on there just keep that nice and clean then we'll take our ejector rod and our base pan if there's any kind of debris on here that's sticking if there's some carbon or anything you know obviously you'll want to clean that off but this is pretty pretty clean compared to the bore now next we're going to take the Shooter's Choice and we're going to just go ahead and put a little bit on our ejector Rod pin and when I say a little bit I mean just a little bit you just want a light coating you don't want this to attract debris definitely a little bit on your base pin this just helps it go smoother and also a little bit on your spring you want to examine your main spring make sure that it's good to go I would just to give a little bit of oil on that not much right here beside your hammer Just a Touch a little bit on your cylinder release and then maybe a little bit right here on the base pin detent pan now we're ready to put it back together first thing we're going to do is go ahead and put on our grips and of course there's no real particular way to do this just tighten this down one thing you don't want to do is tighten it too tight you don't want to break those grips next to go ahead and we're going to put in our cylinder open up your loading gate and it should just fall right in now you want to line this up because when you're putting in your base pin it's going to go in and one thing you want to make sure with the Ruger is there's a little bit of a cut here that fits to the barrel so you want to make sure you line that up then to press your base pin make sure it's good and secure close the loading gate take your ejector rod and your ejector spring and you want to put it in this way it doesn't go on the outside it goes just like this next we're going to slide our spring into the hole right here bring this over line it up you want to make sure the housing fits right to the frame and that should line up your screw again secure but not too tight guys we got it back together everything is clean working well man there's something about a single action revolver that's just awesome and if it's going to sit in your safe for a little while take one of the gun wipes it's the 085 just give it a good coat that way it'll keep it from any kind of corrosion just protect the metal man that's the best that's looked since it came out of the box and guys you have everything you need right here in this really small kit easy to take to the range you got your brushes your bore mops you have your Jags you have extra rides in case you need to have a longer Barrel you need to clean and of course your CLP and it all just fits in this small case and so this makes it really convenient easy to carry again you may need just a little bit of bore solvent and a few Q-tips always helps and guys whether you have the Ruger style the cold style or even one of the 22 Wranglers you know they're pretty much the same kind of process they're all designed the same way and so it's really easy again there are a few differences with Colt style but it's simple so guys keep that single action revolver clean and maintained just gives you a lot more joy when you're shooting and you throw in your cowboy hat and the cowboy boots and you're back in the old west we also appreciate Otis for sponsoring the video and guys Otis Technologies is putting out some really incredible cleaning kits but also Otis defense supplies cleaning kits for our USB military be strong be of good courage God Bless America long live the republic [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] being 45 we're gonna of course this one fits the 45 ACP okay but I'm going to use a little bit of solvent in this [Music] and when you're pushing your borber just gives us a nice platform but guys honestly we're going to put it back into the ejector housing oops and then go into the housing [Music] nope nope nope I don't look good Sam Colt invented them she didn't invent it did he now Otis Technologies now Otis now it is cleaning they make great products again suppliers cleaning I do ma'am [Music]

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Length: 15min 59sec (959 seconds)

Published: Tue May 02 2023