how to clean barrel on a Deerslayer M87?

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 11, 2012 12:56 pm
I have inherited a deerslayer M87 featherlight, 2 3/4 & 3", rifled barrel, MAG 870021196

On the Ithaca website, I find a manual for the M37, but not for this gun.

Can you tell me if the barrel is fixed or removable for this gun? If it is removable, I will follow the manual.

If the barrel is fixed, what is the procedure for cleaning the barrel? I am guessing I should push a rod down the barrel, attach a pad/brush and pull it back out. Is that what you guys are doing with a fixed barrel deerslayer? Thanks.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 6:00 am
As far as I'm aware, the M87 was merely an M37 with a different name.

*If* this is the case, then *this* maybe more useful than the current user manual:

stevespages.com/pdf/ithaca_3787.pdf

At any rate, that's what *I* use to maintain my early 1980s DSPS guns.

Basic barrel removal procedure for the M37 is:

[a] Open action.

[b] Do mag nut *up*. (That is, clockwise looking from the muzzle.)

[c] Rotate barrel one quarter turn. (Anticlockwise looking from the muzzle.)

[d] Pull barrel forward away from the receiver.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Mark.

P.S. D'oh! I've just seen the *name* of the file... :)
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 7:57 am
the 87 is a 37 that they redesigned the shell stops for.

the effort was a failure and most 87s were converted back to 37 parts.
in either case they are the same gun.

depending on who you talk to an unaltered 87 is more sought after then a normal 37 or converted 87.

as to your barrel , i'm not an expert on DSrs as to what ones have fixed barrels and what ones dont

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 8:37 pm
Twistedoak you are slightly off. You are thinking of the model 38. The model 87 was just a re badge of the 37 by one of the owners who bought the company and re opened it in 1987. As far as if the barrel is removable if there is a yoke on the magazine tube than it has a removable barrel. If not than it is of the fixed barrel design that was first introduced during the "model 87 era".

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 8:43 pm
By the way if it is a fixed barrel than you would clean it just like a fixed barrel rifle; carefully down the muzzle with a non steel cleaning rod.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 9:59 pm
eew gad ..
your right
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 10:24 am
1977cutcher wrote:By the way if it is a fixed barrel than you would clean it just like a fixed barrel rifle; carefully down the muzzle with a non steel cleaning rod.



that is why I have a set of Graphite rods. None better.
I also use a bore snake for those "In-between" clean outs. After 5-6 rounds of skeet or 5 stand a couple of run through with a bore snake and it is surprisingly clean. Plus you can wash them. I use a bucket and dish soap a rinse in the sink and air dry. I don't want all that crud in a sink, hence the bucket.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 7:12 pm
Use a piece of copper choreboy pad and shooters choice on a tight fitting jag and a steel one piece rod or you will NEVER get all of plastic and lead fouling out of the barrel. Either you get it 100% clean or you will never get the best accuracy out of it. Follow the choreboy with a couple cotton patches w/shooters choice and then one or two dry ones.

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