blowing down barrel

[coloradoclyde]

:thumbsup:
Truth for sure....

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Grown men, running around playing "make believe" treating their guns like toys ......given the circumstances...blowing down the barrel would be like playing Russian roulette.

Treating their guns like toys...


WOW if there were a finger emoticon, I'd display it at you, in response to your insulting comment. :cursing:

I see no reason to cast an insult at me or others. Since you are ignorant of the situation as proven by your comment, perhaps you should not comment further along those lines.

First, blanks up close can kill or seriously injure a person. Hence the reason why firearm safety is practiced at reenactments.

Your previous position... it wasn't possible for a person to fire their black powder muzzleloader ever and not know it went off. You were given the example of a match, and how. How does one know? Kick, and the noise of a bang along with smoke. I explained how that might be overlooked at formal range with multiple shooters. If you choose not to accept that idea, that's up to you, but it doesn't invalidate the point, rare as it may be.

LD

 

[coloradoclyde]

Sorry L.D. :redface:
I should have worded that differently....
If we look past what we perceive to be insulting, I think we both will find much to agree upon. :v

 

[coloradoclyde]

Let's recap!

Blowing down the barrel at a reenactment.....BAD IDEA.
Blowing down the barrel at places that have rules against it......BAD IDEA.
Blowing down the barrel at places like Friendship or where there are lots of shooters, commotion, and distractions.....BAD IDEA.

Blowing down the barrel if your not comfortable with it....BAD IDEA.

But, for the hunter, small range, small informal shoot, woods walk etc... I don't see a problem with the practice. However, each person and each situation is unique....AND.....
Of course I'm not advocating that it should ever be a mandatory thing.

 

[necchi]

I'm not going to read this entire thread,, as this topic get's beat to death 2-3 times a year.
Did anyone mention a "Blow tube"?
The practice of blowing moist breath down a barrel to soften fouling giving a mechanical and visual mechanism to clear the fire channel is as old as dirt.
The placing of the head over the barrel that get's most folks ire doesn't have to be done, a flexible tube can be used.

 

[MSW]

... only takes once ...

 

[Dean2]

... only takes once ...

So does walking across the street at the wrong time and a ton of other really dangerous things we do everyday..

I have no dog in this hunt. I don't blow, nor do I suck, :grin: but if someone else wants to it is no skin off my nose.

Taking drugs, smoking, being overweight, driving a car are all far likelier to kill you. Live and let live. It is a free country, as long as what they are doing doesn't put you at risk let people do as they like.

I really can't believe these kinds of inane questions can generate so much heat, passion and ill will.

 

[Claude Mathis]

Taking drugs, smoking, being overweight, driving a car are all far likelier to kill you. Live and let live. It is a free country, as long as what they are doing doesn't put you at risk let people do as they like.

I really can't believe these kinds of inane questions can generate so much heat, passion and ill will.

I could not agree more.

If it's not permitted at an event, respect the rules. If you're where it's permitted and you wish to exercise personal responsibility, do as you please and let others do the same.

 

[tenngun]

:thumbsup: Every one knows that only a likly livered bushwacking unreconstructed scum who hates children and kicks dogs would .... ( chose one...blow down or not blow down...) a barrel!

 

[bubba.50]

I'm not going to read this entire thread,, as this topic get's beat to death 2-3 times a year.
Did anyone mention a "Blow tube"?
The practice of blowing moist breath down a barrel to soften fouling giving a mechanical and visual mechanism to clear the fire channel is as old as dirt.
The placing of the head over the barrel that get's most folks ire doesn't have to be done, a flexible tube can be used.

yessir, I did mention blow-tubes................twice as a matter of fact. got ignored both times :idunno: .

 

[azmntman]

Why not use a blow tube?

:redface: sorry I had to :surrender:

 

[bubba.50]

as my buddy Larry The Cable Guy would say "now that's funny I don't care who ya are :bow: .

 

[necchi]

yessir, I did mention blow-tubes................twice as a matter of fact. got ignored both times :idunno: .

Good on ya,, it looks like my comment got blasted by someone that just couldn't grasp the concept either.
Evidently, if you use a 2 foot piece of vinyl tubing to keep your head away from the barrel and blow in the tube,, your still going to blow your head off,, at least once. :shake:
:youcrazy:

 

[hawkeye2]

I was the first person to reply to the original post and I mentioned a blow tube, looks like you weren't the only one ignored. :grin: I'm again' blowin down a barrel but if I don't have to ask my wife to scrub anyone's brains off my shirt I guess it's OK.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Sorry L.D.
I should have worded that differently....
If we look past what we perceive to be insulting, I think we both will find much to agree upon.

My wife looked at my reaction and gave me a :slap:

So...I agree with her, and I was over reacting and I'm sorry... :redface:



LD

 

[Capt. Jas.]

There is a period poem about the potential danger of blowing down the barrel therefore it was practiced then and someone probably lost their head.
I will comply when in a group setting with a lot going on but as a general practice on my own dirt, I will continue to blow down the barrel as well as have a double checked gun (finally approved empty by me) pointed at my eye to check for gun fit. I will also continue to drive my car to go where I need to go even though unlike the above two scenarios, I am quite at the mercy of the action of others. :thumbsup:

 

[tenngun]

I have to look at my self and laugh. I blow down a barrel tween shots. I find it safe and practical, and hc. They did it in days of old. However in days of old they primed the pan from the cartridge before loading. It's hc, but I don't do it....because I don't think it safe. :idunno:
Trying to recreate the past equipment and use it the way they did won't see me putting a vinyl tube in my shooting bag. How ever in my knapsack you will find water purification tablets. Go figure.

 

[bender20]

Blowing down the barrel seems to fly in the face of the only firearms safety rule I've been taught. "Never point the gun at something you are not willing to destroy". I personally like my face the way it is.

 

[tenngun]

So when your building a gun you never check the fit of the end cap with your head over the barrel? You never dropped a bore light down a gun and peaked at the bore? An unloaded gun is a club, or a knife handle. No one was ever killed by a shot from an unloaded gun, dispite what mark twain said. And inspite of all the stories of guys killed in front of wives girlfriends children and on pbs for national broadcast,no ones ever blown off their head at a ml event from blowing down a barrel.

 

[FishDFly]

If it is safe, why is not allowed at sanctioned NMLRA shoots????