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With those plastic things on the nipples and #10 Remington's you have a very good chance of perfect but not 100% I been shooting black powder on and off for 50 years and cartridge guns for 55 years.. I probably have less than a handful of misfires with cartridge guns in my life.. Over a 100...

I suspect your airplane is slightly higher off the deck than most of the cliffs I climb...

I cant seem to get the same level of focus from a pistol match.... punching paper is boring and shooting steel which I really like still seems removed from immediate repercussions of the death variety...

I know a thing or two about staying chill when actual life and death is involved.

Yes CCI caps and they are pinched. The only chain fires I have experienced were from under size balls and no lube.

My muffs absolutly work better for ear protection than foam plugs. In noisy venues, under a tin roof with other shooters I doubble up and wear foam plugs and the muffs. I could just turn the sound off on my woods walk but I like to hear the steel ring. the point of the thread is not so much...

Focus, relax follow through... Just shot my 9 target woods walk in a light rain and only got a 5... Light rain and a fresh hatch of mosquitos.. my electronic ear muffs did not help. The amplified sound of mosquitos honing in on YOU for the kill is rather unnerving. I suspect that at leas 3 of...

I shot my spare cylinder today that was loaded either the day of or day after the cylinder I shot yesterday and it was perfect. was the one misfire from a bad cap yesterday? the result of oil contamination from being in the pistol? 71% humidity a bunch of days this week or just bad luck? any...

not shure when the last time I shot the 58? one week or two? anyays I had 5 really good accurate shots @ 25yrds but my very first shot was a bad cap. no spark at all. complete dud. put a fresh cap on and perfect ignition. I will shoot the spare cylinder tomorrow if I get a chance and see how...

looks really cool.

your 440 ball is too tight so people tell you to go to a larger ball????? try to find out what size it really wants. My pedersoli le page uses a .433 ball and .10 patch they call mine a .44 but you need to find out what size you have.

Seems from what I read that Hickok made his own schedule. He was a shootist. I have zero doubt that he shot every day or close to it. What really did he have to do? wake up and go to the caffe for breakfast and a newspaper. gather the shooting gear and go practice for a few hrs. back to the...

most of us are at the mercy of what caps we can find. I suspect that whatever issues i am haveing come from the nipple end. But who knows. I was shooting my trapper yesterday and had a really slow hangfire from a charge that I had just loaded. granted thats a side hammer and our revolvers are...

he did not have a real job. I have a real job and shoot my single shot competition pistols almost every day. when you shoot every day you can get away with a different type of cleaning. usually whipe it down with baristol, poar some in the action, whipe everything clean and be ready to go bang...

one of the more famous instances of fresh powder ruling the day was the battle of the snow shoes in the 1750s Rojers rangers were being pursued by French and Indians. they took the time to pull their charges, clean and dry their muskets and reload. they then ambushed their pursuers to great...

new guns were expensive. most folks didn't have credit cards. these guns work just fine when they are kept clean and fresh loads. I also suspect that the early cartridges may not have been perfect either.

I shot that spare cylinder that was about the same age as the one I shot yesterday. today was perfect. this is a good example of small sample size. I don't know if the reason this cylinder had perfect ignition is because it was not stored in the gun? because todays humidity is only 50% for the...

25g of T7, not real BP .30g of 777 and after a range session I had some loose screws. 25g works just fine.

shooting it once every few months is too small a sample size to mean anything. I shoot mine two to four times a month. More opportunity to show defects in the system. I suspect that my weak point is the cap to nipple fit. I am pinching #11 caps so obviously that is not an air tight seal. again...

I have had very good reliability when shooting it fresh once a week. I do have a spare cylinder in the van that is also working on three weeks. Planning on shooting that one when I get home from this mini road trip. If I shoot it fresh every week or often even two weeks it's pretty close to...