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[MIOutdoorsman]

...Howsomeever if you can provide enough compression to heat bp to ignition point by the force of throwing the rod down the bore you don’t need the gun. You can go to Alaska find a brown bear and rip it’s leg off and use that as s club to beat a moose to death with.

:haha: you mean like this? :dead:

 

[Loyalist Dave]

i whang the aluminum ramrod hard one time. Works very well for me.

I wonder then how those folks achieved such great accuracy, when using a wooden ramrod without in many cases even a metal, reinforced tip? Surely the folks that lived and died by the flintlock long rifle didn't whang their round balls into submission atop their powder charges with bare wooden ramrods, or at least not for very long?. :shocked2:

LD

 

[Rifleman1776]

You might be able to mar it but you already have been taping it down the bore. You may have exposed it to a short started. So you already took a chance mating the end.

We may load a "round" ball but wat comes out the muzzle is anything but round. Pics in the Lyman bp manual show that. Plus, as you said, we mess them up some with loading.

 

[Rifleman1776]

We were at the loading benches behind the firing line; caps were at the firing line.
The gun fired the ramrod through the brim of his hat. Why or how I don’t know.

Long story short: I once witnessed a delayed discharge (apx. 10 min.), presumably, because of a smoldering ember left in the barrel from the previous shot. It can happen. Go ahead, ask me again why I swab between every shot...... :wink:

 

[tenngun]

Absent RedCoats, Red skins, and Blue Bellies(or Johnny Rebs) we never have to load fast. SWAB YOUR BORE Between shots. You have a lot less chance of maring your ball if you don’t have to go down a dirty gun. Yes I’ve speed loaded, yes I’ve been in timed matches. But, there is no practical reason to do so.

 

[SgtMaj65]

I agree, I always swab between shots. I want consistency with every shot, not trying to see how many PRBs I can force down a fouled barrel. I want to eliminate one of the variables than can alter a shot on target.