Anyone ever experienced burning embers in your barrel after a shot?

[APG]

Hello I sent your forum to a friend who has just joined a ML uk club. His email back

The burning embers thread is interesting. I've never seen it happen, but one of the muzzle loaders at the Wattisfield range had a loading rod go through his hand when a charge ignited as he was loading the patched ball. It was sometime last year so I don't have any details on it.

Regards Gordon ha ha Ps
Life is hard for me trying to learn guitar at 78. And the wife don’t like my flintlocks across the window

I hate to be the one to tell you but that is not a guitar in the picture you posted. But keep on strumming.

 

[Don Steele]

When I shoot my 45/70 BPCR I use a rig like French Colonial described. An empty case connected to some Tygon tubing to blow warm moist air through the barrel.
Also, the use of tubing to blow down your barrel from the muzzle is permitted in NMLRA competition.

 

[French Colonial]

When I shoot my 45/70 BPCR I use a rig like French Colonial described. An empty case connected to some Tygon tubing to blow warm moist air through the barrel.
Also, the use of tubing to blow down your barrel from the muzzle is permitted in NMLRA competition. View attachment 89719

Cool I did not know that about the NMLRA!

 

[Don Steele]

NMLRA Rule 1090:
“ A flexible blow tube may be used at the shooter’s option, provided that the shooter’s head is not placed in front of the muzzle.”

 

[tom_in_vt]

25 years it hasn’t happened, but I don’t doubt that it’s possible

 

[LongWalker]

I realize it's pretty obvious that a single shot muzzleloader is no longer loaded once a shot has been taken, but the idea of putting the muzzle of any gun up to my face still gives me the heebee jeebees.

Probably a good thing you never hunted or shot with V. M. Starr and some of his contemporaries. Starr used to spit down the muzzle of his double shotgun on top of the shot before seating the over shot wad. This was to soften the fouling. Loaded from a flask as well.