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    Chainfires - the skinny? Maybe....

    Evidence and physics are the best foundations for an opinion. If the physics don't support a nipple-end caused chain fire, and if multiple experiments on chain fires can only duplicate them from the front, then there is little foundation to support the idea that a chain fire can come from the...
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    Chainfires - the skinny? Maybe....

    There's typically stray powder on the outside of those adjacent chamber mouths to begin the secondary ignition.
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    Chainfires - the skinny? Maybe....

    Smoking around black powder causes fires when a burning ember from the cigarette ash directly touches the powder. The mere presence of a lit cigarette isn't sufficient to ignite it as the video posted in this thread shows.
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    Chainfires - the skinny? Maybe....

    I think you're spot on. The article I read in which the writer experimented to cause chain fires determined that poor powder management was the cause of chain fires. From his experiments, he did determine that lube could trap powder, causing it to be entrained from the chamber mouth, between...
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    Chainfires - the skinny? Maybe....

    The weak hammer spring is an interesting variable to consider...
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    Wasps Nest?

    What larger insects are worse than bald face hornets???!!!
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    Chainfires - the skinny? Maybe....

    Since the ones who have intentionally left a cap off of a cylinder and never had a chain fire have repeated the exercise enough, the evidence seems pretty clear that chain fires do not happen from the rear. There's a reason that a direct amount of heat and pressure from a cap is needed to...
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    Bore butter

    Yeah, felt was what I meant. I had a brain fart when I wrote velvet.
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    Bore butter

    Where do you get the pure wool sheets? I went to Hobby Lobby, and all I could find was synthetic velvet.
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    Bore butter

    That syringe idea is pretty neat. It would be a lot better for putting a ring of lube around the chamber mouth before ramming a ball home than using my fingertips, which is messy and imprecise. Where do you get those syringes, anyway?
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    Militia officers

    Yes. We only got shot at in an urban environment but couldn't shoot back because we couldn't get PID. However, I have conducted plenty of training exercises, and during dismounted live-fire exercises, I didn't fire a single shot because I was directing my guys. There's not much room for error...
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    BEWARE EMAIL SCAM

    They're reinforcing the fact that they've made a mockery of the law. All they want now is for people to fear THEM instead of the law. If this 14th Amendment ploy to raise the debt ceiling without Congress goes through, then that will truly be the final nail in the coffin of our legal system.
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    Best Original Colt 1860

    Holy cow! At a glance, that looks like something you would see advertised by Pietta or Uberti, as well preserved as it is. That's definitely worth what they're asking.
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    Pietta 1858 C&B - Painful to shoot

    I've heard competing theories about whether it was designed that way intentionally or not, but the bottom line is that it does require the pinky to go under the grip, or one's hand will end up being too high on it. Accident or intention on Remington's part doesn't change much about the end result.
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    Pietta 1858 C&B - Painful to shoot

    If your unmentionable doesn't have a short grip, then there's no point in putting your pinky under it. The whole point in putting the pinky below the bottom of the Remington grip is to prevent an excessively high hold that is contrary to the way it was designed to be held.
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    Pietta 1858 C&B - Painful to shoot

    When there are seven or more bad guys in the street, hotel balconies and rooftops, you need that New York reload. With the Remington, you'll hit all six before you have to go to your standby Colt. As an added bonus, when you aim the Remmy at a bad guy's nose, your shot won't go zinging way...
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    Pietta 1858 C&B - Painful to shoot

    Hey, there's nothing wrong with having your open-top Colt on your belt as your New York reload after you empty your Remington. That's how I'd use mine if I got caught in a time vortex and sent back to the late mid-19th Century.
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    Pietta 1858 C&B - Painful to shoot

    But then you miss out on the look of the sleek NMA beyond your extended arm...
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    Pietta 1858 C&B - Painful to shoot

    I think people are gripping the guns too loosely in many cases. I wear a XXL glove and can palm a basketball, but I don't get my knuckle rapped. Single-action revolvers and muzzle-loading pistols don't require a firm grip to minimize muzzle rise and reliable cycling of the action as is the...
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    Pietta 1858 C&B - Painful to shoot

    With what I'm guessing was a 240gr bullet on that cartridge, I can see why it still had some good recoil even at about 800 FPS.
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