Newbie mishap

[paulvallandigham]

Welcome to the Society, Mike. Have a beer on us. :rotf: :thumbsup:

 

[reddog97]

I used my discharger a couple of weeks ago to clear a revolver cylinder.Got a new Uberti 3rd Model Dragoon and when I took it out for a test drive, the.454 balls that I use in my 1860 Army seemed too small(wasn't gettin a full circle of shaved lead). I bought a box of .457's and decided to try them out w/o powder first before loading em up at the range and then wishin I hadda. I seated a .457,got the full circle of lead and then removed the cylinder. I then backed out the nipple enough to fit the discharger and pushed.POW! The ball came out and into an old sheet on the floor,just as planned. I bought this discharger about 25 years ago. The brand name is Pollack Manufacturing Co. Can't locate em now so they must be out of business.The only drawback to it is that it uses the 8 gr.co2 cartridge which is not easy to find. I keep it and several spare co2 cartridges in my bp range box.

 

Thanks for the great story! Sometime us old timers do dumb things too!

 

[miked35]

Welcome to the Society, Mike. Have a beer on us. :rotf: :thumbsup:

Thanks, I believe I will!

Mike

 

[crazybear22]

there is a lever type helper you can use on the ramrod to pry with with 10 gr that should not hurt the barrel at all if it did the barrel was bad to begin with the powder did not go off becaause the nipple was probably pluged and i have been muzzle loading for thirty years and never dry balled just procedure powder patch ball