safety freaksYou can see the ball flying out like a meteor
I think she lit off 3 at the same time and her boyfriend or whatever is laughing about it as the girl didn't miss a puff off the cigarette and was also laughing
safety freaksYou can see the ball flying out like a meteor
I think she lit off 3 at the same time and her boyfriend or whatever is laughing about it as the girl didn't miss a puff off the cigarette and was also laughing
I agree but you just shot the hornets nestNumber 10 Remington's and number 11 CCI's are the same size. They are "number 10 or 11" in name only . . .
Size doesn't transfer from maker to maker.
Mike
Thats exactly why I like shooting Kaido conicals in my ROA. They fit perfectly tight into the cylinder, no chance of any flash getting to the charge.Hopw could a flame get past a properly fitting ball -- i.e., one where on loading a thin ring of lead is sheared off? That means that the powder CANNOT be reached from the FRONT - past the hermetic seal.
I too have had to pinch caps to make 'em stay on. These were Remington caps. Shoot CCI, now, but there must be something better. Been shooting C&B revolvers for over 40 yrs,. now, never had a chain fire. Suppose it could happen, but it hasn't yet. The cause of chain fires has been debated ad nauseum with no definitive cause being found that I've heard of. Still. I wipe the face of my cylinder to remove any stray powder grains and grease each chamber if for no other reason that it makes me feel good.I’ve been pinchin’ caps off and on for about 40 years and haven’t had a chain-fire yet.
Where could I find these articles? I’d like to read them.I've been reading everything I can find about the use of percussion revolvers in combat, for years. A lot of it while I'm bored at work with access to a computer, and I'll burn up 2 hours reading forum posts from 2003 from Civil War and weapons Historians, letters from soldiers and Officers home telling their parents about the "beautiful but cantankerous forty four Colt's pistol I was given , it bucks like a mule and gets as sluggish as an old dog on a July afternoon after 12 shots" but I have yet to read an original account of a chain fire . Besides the Mark Twain pepperbox story.
I deep dive this stuff, I've read deeply about soldiers using rocks to pound on ramrods to load Minies , old trashy European muskets that would barely go off, soldiers getting barrels so hot in muskets and rifles that the powder was igniting and they threw it away to pick one up off a corpse....young soldiers telling their Dad that they got an Austrian musket that kicked like 20 mules, or a "beautiful English gun that shot clean every time " ,..but not once has a Union LT or anyone else apparently had a letter saved for posterity saying stuff like "I fired off my Colt today to get the 6 shots out I never used and I'll be dammed if half the cylinder didn't go" there's 0 of any of this . You'd think if chain fires were common the troops would write home griping about them
Rifle-Muskets and muskets are written about heavily by veterans and soldiers but there's very little to read about revolvers. I feel like they were such a small piece of the overall picture and weren't fired a lot, so they weren't really written about.
Many are in the book "myths and facts of the Rifled-Musket in the Civil War" mostly the excerpts of letters about rifles and musketsWhere could I find these articles? I’d like to read them.
Thank you very much!Many are in the book "myths and facts of the Rifled-Musket in the Civil War" mostly the excerpts of letters about rifles and muskets
Lots you just have to deep dive, Reenactor forums are a gold mine of obscure info. The older the post the better it usually is. I've read stuff posted 20+ years ago by a reenactor who has his ancestors letters about his Springfield rifle, or Colt revolver and the period way they spoke back then makes it so much better . Unfortunately reenacting was more alive in the early 2000s so more guys were active and posting letters from their Veteran ancestors. The Colt forum sometimes has more technical info if someone posts about percussion Colts
I have the advantage of having usually 2 hours of complete dead time at night at work, or if I work a night shift. I'll just hole up somewhere and search the internet to turn up totally obscure info
This is how I learned that some Confederate revolvers used "field salvage " Colt parts to speed production, sketchy contractors used to "short charge" revolver cartridges to save powder and whole shipments were rejected by the US Ordnance Dept because the 44 cartridges had as little as 10 grains of powder ....... cavalry sometimes did a "mad minute " type thing where they'd empty both revolvers at a line of Infantry while at a halt, over 100 + yards away, reload then charge or flank around
You just have to enter a Google search for something like "chain fires in the Civil War " and go down the internet rabbit hole
I randomly learned why most of the Leech & Rigdon revolvers sold in the 1960s-70s were found in Central Pennsylvania. Because this particular Battalion of PA state militia captured the factory during Shermans March, and grabbed all the revolvers. Fast forward 100 years, families started finding old revolvers stuck in drawers, attics etc put there by Deceased uncles and dads who were vets of that Battalion and hocking them . Random knowledge like that is fascinating to meThank you very much!
Makes perfect sense. These would have to back out a long way before spilling powder. Do you ever look to see if they back out? I may try some of my swaged HBWC's. They are dead soft lead.With these and pinched caps I never get chain fires therefore the problem must be caused by shooting round ball.
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