T'were me, I'd start with the simplest solutions. In this case, you may not have cleaned the breech area as well as you thought. What is your cleaning procedure?
And for long guns, I would add swabbing the bore with a dry patch before even doing that. And noting how far down the ramrod goes. All the way to the breach? Measure to make sure.
I’m of the opinion that you can get away with a larger flash hole if you’re shooting ball and lighter target loads. When shooting heavier charges and bullets I typically replace the nipple when it exceeds .032.
you're right, it's just that I mainly just talk and let my computer print so I don't have to do the two finger thing, but the word that they keep blacking out is not a bad word. Why it would be considered a bad word is way beyond me. It's used in many other things like dealing with pipe or stuff available for livestock and yet they think it's nasty. Don't they have anything else to do with their time?
Reminds me of my high school geography teacher using National Geographic magazines as visual aids. He’d very carefully put bikinis on the native ladies using his fountain pen. Mr Gates was old school even for those days… thank goodness your computer is protecting you from yourself! A man gets started with nipple and there’s no telling what kind of debauchery may follow.
I wish my voice recognition system was accurate enough to type that way. But, notice @Bad Karma post quoted below! Apparently this discussion you started has prompted administrators to fix that glitch in the algorithm.
Your situation is different than his. You are not correcting a problem but you are adapting out of nescessity. This is a huge difference. What is strange to me is my rifles burn out nipples after many rounds. I can tell by how my shots perform at longer yardage. Once I replace the old nipple with a new one she comes back to where I want it? This leads me to believe my orifice is large a plenty? I would think most rifles would be similar? If my orifice was larger I believe it would eat nipple for breakfast, lunch and supper? This fellow may have that problem if he drills out his orifice?
Same here. Although I have heard that people using substitute powders, Triple 7 in particular do use a larger orifice than blackpowder shooters. Seems as if it might mean nipples are going to be replaced more often if you’re using bullets and heavy charges. I don’t shoot enough round ball to comment on nipple life there.
