The flip side of how long
08-18-2014, 08:39 AM
#21
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Idaho
Posts: 11,703
I usually just give a clean patch one lick to swab. The a dry patch. It's never failed me yet.
I always blow down the barrel after the shot to make sure the smoke blows out the nipple. I always know it's clear that way. I know some ranges don't like that, but mine isn't one of them. I never did see the danger in it. I'm checking to see the smoke blow out. I can only do it after i've shot. Where's the danger?
I always blow down the barrel after the shot to make sure the smoke blows out the nipple. I always know it's clear that way. I know some ranges don't like that, but mine isn't one of them. I never did see the danger in it. I'm checking to see the smoke blow out. I can only do it after i've shot. Where's the danger?
I know I do it a lot but would not let my kids do it or anyone that I am teaching...
08-18-2014, 09:43 AM
#23
Dominant Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 21,193
I have a barrel blower. Its a small funnel with a long piece of fish tank tube. You put the funnel in the muzzle sealing it and blow through the tube. Does the same thing, you see the smoke and never get that black powder taste that can sometimes happen.
I was at a public range once, and blew down the barrel. I thought the RO was going to come unglued. I would have told him to shut his pie hole but was worried he would have kicked me off the range. So I stood there and let him rant. And did not blow down the barrel again.
I was at a public range once, and blew down the barrel. I thought the RO was going to come unglued. I would have told him to shut his pie hole but was worried he would have kicked me off the range. So I stood there and let him rant. And did not blow down the barrel again.
08-18-2014, 09:43 AM
#24
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Idaho
Posts: 11,703
08-18-2014, 10:06 AM
#25
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: River Ridge, LA (Suburb of New Orleans)
Posts: 10,918
On the range? Heck, I don't know what the record is. But I suspect I'm pretty close. Years ago I went through a period of using too wet of a patch to swab. Even following that with a dry patch I was the king of FTF.
08-18-2014, 10:44 AM
#27
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Colorado
Posts: 9,557
You can always call me black lips if it happens to me.
08-18-2014, 11:05 AM
#28
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Penns Woods
Posts: 1,628
I bought a used .54 Renegade some years back that had a beat up #11 nipple on it from some idiot dry firing it. I put a musket nipple on it for grins and it worked great. I sold the gun to my neighbor short while later and he never had a problem with misfires or hang-fires, but he can't find musket caps locally anymore...
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08-18-2014, 12:07 PM
#30
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Idaho
Posts: 11,703
Muley,
I bought a used .54 Renegade some years back that had a beat up #11 nipple on it from some idiot dry firing it. I put a musket nipple on it for grins and it worked great. I sold the gun to my neighbor short while later and he never had a problem with misfires or hang-fires, but he can't find musket caps locally anymore...
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I bought a used .54 Renegade some years back that had a beat up #11 nipple on it from some idiot dry firing it. I put a musket nipple on it for grins and it worked great. I sold the gun to my neighbor short while later and he never had a problem with misfires or hang-fires, but he can't find musket caps locally anymore...
BPS
I started with Musket caps because everybody said they were hotter but I really had problems with them in cold weather - made the switch to #11 Mag caps and found nipples that the cap fit very tightly on - to the point they are nearly water proof - and every thing is good.
It still comes down to whomever said "keep your powder dry"