How to remove shroud??? Just got my gun back
I just got my gun back from Ernest and before I would unscrew the shroud and run a bore snake down barrel and clean with patches. Now I can’t get the shroud off wondering how to make this work? How do you guys clean your barrel? I can unscrew the shround but it don’t come off no matter how much I unscrew it?
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OR…you can put the stock in a bench vice, grip the shroud with a pipe wrench, and give it a hard twist to the left!
Any of the above methods will work….depending on your mood, choose one!
Hoot:
How to remove shroud if unable to unscrew shroud off—–> being to tight or shroud rotating without turning the muzzle break off the barrel threads.
—>the pressure from the oring,baffles and end cap is the only thing that’s keeping the threaded muzzle break from turning, so if you really over tighten you can break the torque of the oring then the shroud will turn and jam the barrel on the muzzle break–so if you try to unscrew the shroud the muzzle break will turn freely unable to unscrew from the barrel, the shroud will not come off from the front you have to use this procedure.
Leave stock on.
1. Losses end cap one turn
2. Loosen TP alignment screw off barrel
3. Remove cocking bolt
4. Remove left cover cocking plate
5. Looses 4 barrel screws
6. Pull barrel out
7. Remove end cap
8. Collect Oring and baffles while Pushing shroud slowly to breech end till you see the muzzle break
9. Place barrel on wood vice and unscrew muzzle break. (if you can’t unscrew by hand)
Reassemble shroud:
1. Slide muzzle break in the front of shroud followed by all the baffles then Oring
2. Tighten end cap till bottom out tight.
3. Screw on shroud to barrel finger tight repeat to insure the shroud screw on and off the barrel then leave shroud on.
4. Slide barrel back on while the TP alignment screw indent is on top
5. Remove barrel alignment screw and look through the hole and aligned the indent then lightly seat the alignment screw.
6. Tighten barrel screw
7. Reinstall cover plate and cocking bolt.
I remember when we too Lurkers end caps off, sombitches were really tight. I took mine off a few days ago and they were finger tight. Adding silicone grease to the barrel is the ticket for easy removal.
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Grab the son of a bitch at the front and turn it counter-clockwise. This takes some serious force the first time to “crack” the seal on the shroud threads.
Keep turning it until it begins to move away from the breech.
After about an inch of the breech threads shows, begin to gently pull the shroud away from the breech.
When the shroud is about half way off, you will hit the barrel threads…that’s when you “wobble” the shroud up and down a tiny bit, while you pull. This gets the end of the shroud past the threads on the end of the barrel.
After the shroud is fully removed, put a goodly amount of silicone grease on the barrel and barrel threads. This will make taking it off and on much easier in the future.
The front end cap may take a bit of force as well to unscrew it, but it will come undone. The baffles will simply fall out. Be certain to notice what direction the baffle cones are facing when they come out. That way you can put them back in correctly. A hint…the cones point toward the front and the baffles just sit on top of each other.
There!
Regards,
Uncle Hoot:
Kind of rock the forward wen as you continue t unscrew and pull forward.
Put a little silicone on the barrel once its off. Mine is still hard to get past the threads so I just go slow and work it over the threads
If it’s just to run patches through, can’t you use a straw to guide the patch puller past the baffles?
Still nice to know how to take the shroud off. 🙂
Ball Park add gentle pressure pulling gently forward as you twist.
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I did that to mine Hoot: , but it took a 18″ pipe wrench with two guys the size of Bedwetter to twist it off. After they twisted it off they were both useless like Bedwetter…..