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I took many of your recommendations and have a good cleaning routine set up... changed out the nipple and the rifle shoots first time every time now. It's fun to shoot, looks great and shoot's pretty accurately...what more can you ask. Thanks for all the advice in the forum!

That's a great story thanks for sharing!

The hammer seems to be dropping well...but being new to this I don't have a solid reference. I've done just about all of the recommended tips in this thread and I'll get to the range next weekend weather permitting and see if she fires!

Good info... thanks

Totally:)

I removed the barrel and cleaned it...blew compressed air through the nipple and seem to have good air flow. I did some work to realign the lock and hammer to strike the nipple better...it was off a bit. I examined a cap on the nipple and I can see that it's not fitting perfectly so I'll get to...

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Both the Pyrodex and the caps are new...so hopefully that means they're ok. I'll get to cleaning and blowing out the nipple area and barrel this week and head back to the range next weekend. I'll try the lacquer thinner too!

Better than the RS ?

Does the pyrodex pistol powder ignite better being an fffg?

great advice...thanks!

thanks...I'm thinking you're right about the bore, it's probably gunked up. I had tested a few caps without a load when I first tried it out and it seemed as thought air was moving through well enough but I'll definitely give it a cleaning now.

yes I have both issues. I have only put 4 shots through this gun...when I cleared the 3rd one with removing the nipple method I then tried another. The cap failed once, then fired on the second try but the load didn't shoot, then on my third attempt it fired properly with a slight delay. I'm...

I'm new to muzzleloading and recently refurbished a CVA Kentucky rifle...45 cal. I took it to the range and got off a few shots then the third I couldn't get to fire...and I tried after many caps. I read in here to pull the nipple and put in a small amount of powder...this worked! However, I'm...

Thanks for the welcome! Question about this CVA Kentucky rifle. I had a load that wouldn't fire... tried many caps and no luck. I read in here to remove the nipple clean and add powder to it and that worked. The ongoing issue is that my caps either don't fire on the first trigger pull or when...

From Western Massachusetts and new to muzzleloading. I was recently given an older CVA Kentucky rifle kit gun that I torn down, fixed and refinished. Took it to the range yesterday and fired a few shots and now I'm hooked. I appreciate this forum as it's a great source of info... Merry Christmas!