Dirt Dobbers, watch 'em - Nearly a Kaboom
I left my SKS on the four wheeler gun rack all day Saturday, and I just noticed the barrel. They almost put the whammy on me.
Now I cut the fingers off of nitrile gloves and put them over the end of the barrel.
https://imgur.com/aJ6fnEU-
One shot will clear those right out!
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small piece of black electrical tape works well
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I have used the 'finger cots' but nitrile glove fingers last longer.
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great catch glad you caught it
I remember many years ago reading about people just sitting there gun in a closet or behind a door and they have had the barrel go bang where a spider would make a home or similar a insect would build there home in it
good practice to check the barrel if you do such things
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Probably didn't affect the accuracy of that old SKS but the same thing happened to a pretty decent .308 I kept in the pickup. 2.5" of rifling was corroded beyond use requiring a barrel swap.
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In Africa when you set your rifle in the stand at night always place a bullet in the muzzle to prevent that happening.
We would place a piece of electrical tape over the muzzle of our rifles incase we fell down and got dirt in the muzzle when I was in the Army.
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I've seen a little measly aggravating mud dauber put bulldozers and other large eq out of service. I've had to keep gun barrels protected.
They can take the energizer bunny out of service also.
One nest can cause big gears and chains to break.
I've had to figure out how to try to protect equipment from dauber's and live with them.
If you do not have any mud daubers around, you can consider yourself blessed. (and must not have any mud around close)
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Them things also reek havoc on outboard water cooled boat motors too!
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That was a nice save!
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I have yet to figure out how they know that if they glue a "start winding" switch shut they can burn up a motor. I have a large metal cutting band saw and cement mixer for proof.😉 No, my inattention had nothing to do with it! Learned to seal motors
that aren't being used with plastic bags and duct tape.
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I have yet to figure out how they know that if they glue a "start winding" switch shut they can burn up a motor. I have a large metal cutting band saw and cement mixer for proof.😉 No, my inattention had nothing to do with it! Learned to seal motors
that aren't being used with plastic bags and duct tape.
I've ben putting screens on all my electric motors and window AC units for years.
Even have to screen the Totally enclosed Fan cooled motors. They will cog lock the cooling fan end of a TREFC motor.
Yes about outboard motors, they really like those.
My uncle had a Cj5 jeep parked in a shed that had not been started in about a month in the summer time. Motor locked up, would not crank over.
Had to pull the engine head, dirt dauber nest on top of a piston. Jeep had a straight through type muffler.
When working on equipment I've had them land on my screwdriver's shank with a wad of mud appears as though they smile and just look at me, like they are bring me a gift.
If you have never seen the inside of a big mud dauber's motel type nest, you would not believe the number of spiders packed inside, some still able to slightly move. Spiders are the food for when their larva hatches.
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Just think what it would be like if those suckers had an 8' wingspan.
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Just think what it would be like if those suckers had an 8' wingspan.
😁 I'd be hiring them to plaster walls!
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If all insects were 100 times larger this planet would be unlivable.
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