Firing trouble

[hanshi]

In all the years I've been shooting MLs, shooting out a ramrod is the ONE thing I've managed to escape.

 

[StewartLeach]

I've done it, and more than once. Most recent repetition was at a Boulder Rifle Club "cut the stake" fun match where teams fired in rotation. The team that cuts their stake in two with the least number of rounds wins. Things got down to where our stake was hanging by a splinter. My dry ball was ruled to be a shot, and the next shot by the other team finished off their stake. The next month when it got down to the same point two guys supervised my loading.......

White Fox

 

[hawkeye2]

I've dryballed before but I was alone on the range when I did so I guess it never happened right? The real reason however that I replied was this:

"This and 50 cents used to buy you a Coke."

Ya mean I can't get one for 6 cents anymore? Come on guys, next you'll try to tell me DuPont doesn't make powder anymore and it costs more than $.98 a pound.

 

[H. E. Schwalm]

I have an ink mark at no charge and one at 75grFF. My first ramrod I had a notch at full load. That is where it broke.

 

[45man]

Fitting a breech plug is not easy so some companies torque with a 3000# wrench. I do it different and use a brass washer at the seal point. I thin it as needed to seal the bore as the flats get fit. To fool with the back of the barrel to make the plug fit both the flats and seat to the bore is just too hard. The washer does not have a hole in it but I have no other name except shim.
Dry balling has bit me more then once. It is distraction when a friend babbles. Joe never shuts up. Everything he does is good and he says "you know" a million times. He gets at me for no powder but he did it too.

 

[Carbon 6]

In all the years I've been shooting MLs, shooting out a ramrod is the ONE thing I've managed to escape.

Me too, I think this is because when loading I never take my hand off the ramrod until it is back in the thimbles.