Cleaning my Ruger #3

[dale2242]

How do i clean the barrel of my #3 without getting solvent in the action?

 

[Ben]

I use a cleaning cradle that holds the rifle on a 30 degree down bubble angle. I clean from the breech end, and anything that drips out falls into a large plastic container under the end of the muzzle end of the barrel.

 

[RicinYakima]

Or turn it upside down in the cleaning cradle is you can't get it sloping enough.

 

[Jeff H]

I did both with mine, upside down, with the top of the receiver in one yoke and the muzzle end of the barrel in the other put a great enough angle on it that it was even easy to see/access the breech for inserting the patch/rod. The two yokes on my cradle were just far enough apart for the 22" barrel.

Break opens,... either have to take the barrel off, which I don't do if I don't have to, or lay it on its side on a bench and stuff the end of a cotton swab between the extractor and the breech.

 

[Ian]

If you really want to get fancy, cut the head off of a fired case and solder or epoxy a thin metal tube about six inches long to the back end of it to span the action.

 

[6thtexas]

My #3 and the #1s get turned upside down in the cradle I have.