Misfire
10-12-2005, 10:09 AM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Manitoba, Canada
Posts: 127
Misfire
Looking for advice should a misfire occur, since I'm told there is a real possibility that one will occur sooner or later. Shooting Pursuit LT with Pyrodex pellets and Hornady XTP's 240 gr. Assuming the primer has fired and your problem is withpellets. If you remove the breech plug, pellets should just fall out, correct? Assuming you would not stick new pellets back in from breech end, how would you remove the projectile? Push from breech to muzzle? Push from muzzle to breech? Projectile puller? All advice gratefully accepted.
10-12-2005, 10:47 AM
#2
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 21,193
RE: Misfire
Misfires are very rare in inlines but they do happen. When I get a misfire, first off for safety reasons remain with the rifle pointed down range for a minute or two. Just to make sure you do not get a delayed fire.
After I pull the breech plug, I use loose powder so one I pull the plug, my powder falls out. I then push the projectile out from the muzzle to the breech.
In my Thompson Center manal they recommend killing the charge. That kind of defeats the purpose of saving the pellet if you do not fire the charge at the end of the day. To kill the charge, you soak the breech end of the rifle in a bucket of water. After the powder is saturated, then you push the charge out, and swab the barrel clean.
After I pull the breech plug, I use loose powder so one I pull the plug, my powder falls out. I then push the projectile out from the muzzle to the breech.
In my Thompson Center manal they recommend killing the charge. That kind of defeats the purpose of saving the pellet if you do not fire the charge at the end of the day. To kill the charge, you soak the breech end of the rifle in a bucket of water. After the powder is saturated, then you push the charge out, and swab the barrel clean.
10-12-2005, 02:02 PM
#3
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Colorado
Posts: 4,127
RE: Misfire
The only misfires I have ever had with an inline was when I swabbed the barrel in between shots, and used a little too much swabbing solution. It apparently rusn down into the flash hole through the breech plug. I have tried another cap and always gotten it to go off the second time. If, after two or three fresh caps, it didn't go bang - I would do what cayugad suggests. Pellets, in my experience, are pretty reliable in terms of ignition.
10-12-2005, 06:38 PM
#5
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2005
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Posts: 364
RE: Misfire
heck wait a minute or 2, open it up install another cap/primer and pop it again before you go threw the hassle of field cleaning it, after you've tried it a time or 2 more then pull it apart and push everything out. A lot of times because of oil or cleaning solivent or spit the 2nd primer will fire the charge.
10-12-2005, 11:59 PM
#6
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Saskatchewan Canada
Posts: 6,921
RE: Misfire
I agree with 209's misfire's are not common and most times a new cap will ignite the charge. Personally I never install my breech until I am ready to go, which always includes a few dry patches down the bore to ensure all excess oil is removed and then install the breech. I have NEVER had a misfire with doing it this way in terms of the first shot. As suggested make sure you hold the rifle in a safe position down range to ensure it isn't a delayed ignition for 1-2 minutes, then recap (upto 2 more times). If failure to ignite still exists, remove the breech, push from muzzle to breech and disgard.
