I had that happen to me once back in High School shooting my newly acquired 1860 Remington. I forgot to lube over and had two barrels go off. Fortunately not the bottom one behind the frame. I never used anything other than lube, but I understand wads with lube is better. A good friend of mine, a while back, bought him one and he was going to use it on some feral cats that kept coming into his yard. We lived in a small town and were both on the outskirts of town. He drew down on the critter at about 15 yards, pulled the trigger and had 4 chambers go off. He apparently didn't lube any of them. Funny thing, was when the smoke cleared, he said that the cat was still standing there.
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The ending was sweet. He cleaned it by taking it apart and putting the cylinder in the dishwasher. After his wife got threw yelling at him, he didn't want anything to do with it anymore. I traded him for $50 Credit at my dad's grocery store, and he was as happy as if he had good sense. I still have the pistol to this day, it's a .44 Navy with a 5 1/2 inch bbl.
If you use an oversized ball that shaves a good ring of lead, and the caps are the right size and not falling off you should have no problems.
That's something that I did not mention in my last post. I too use the small cut vinyl tubes that I also bought on ebay around each capped nipple. They work well in both holding on cap on the nipple securely with a possible benefit of sealing out moisture. Possibly a solution to hold on #11 caps on a nipple without pinching the cap.
Chain-fires are caused by fire jumping from one nipple to the next.
Wow, I've never heard of that many chambers firing in a chain! Wonder what the recoil was like? If he used proper size balls and grease over ball than it had to be loose caps or cracked cylinder !
I was thinking about purchaseing a Remington clone and needed to ask a few questions about the pistol. I am ignorant when it comes to BP pistols? You answered my main question! Thanks!
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