OK you underhammer experts.

[silverfox]

Okay guys use some common sense. Wear something over your forearm for protection on underhammers. On sidelocks and flints you don't stick your forearm over the lock so don't do it with a underhammer without protection.
A deer hunting load with a .45 in the 70 to 80 grain area should be well in a good killing range just put the ball in the vitals.
Now as far as blowing the nipple there should be less pressure on the nipple of a underhammer than on the drum of a sidelock. So less chance of blowing it out even under heavy loads. I believe this because with the underhammer the pressure is directly out the nipple for instant release. The sidelock the pressure hits the end of the drum turns 90 degrees before exiting out the nipple to relieve pressure. Bigger chance of blowing a drum than a well fitting nipple. :imo:
Underhammers have been around a long time and are excellent guns, they just look different than what most people are used to seeing. It take a special person to love a underhammer but then who wouldn't like the underdog.
Fox :thumbsup:

 

[walruskid1]

gee, my wife keeps telling me i'm "special", usually after i buy another rifle. i have also learned over the years to wear long sleeves while shooting my underhammers. you can get away with bare arms with a new nipple. (for a while)


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This post had me a bit confuse-ed, but I think I figured that the rifle had an eroded nipple (I hate when that happens :crackup If the threads are fine I would get a .25 cal. bore brush and clean the threads with it before installing the new nipple, and as with what has been said before verify that you have a 1/4-32 thread nipple. I would get some anti-sieze for the threads as well. Buy the smallest tube the have at an autoparts store. It's all the same stuff and generally cheaper. The smallest tube will be a lifetime supply, I clean and re-apply every time I pull and clean the nipples on my guns, that way I never have to worry about them corroding in place. Well, thats :m2c: worth. Bill P.S. 70 gr. of FFG is more than ample to put down a whitetail, if you put the roundball where it's supposed to be.

 

[WV_Hillbilly]

Okay guys use some common sense. Wear something over your forearm for protection on underhammers. On sidelocks and flints you don't stick your forearm over the lock so don't do it with a underhammer without protection.

gee, my wife keeps telling me i'm "special", usually after i buy another rifle. i have also learned over the years to wear long sleeves while shooting my underhammers. you can get away with bare arms with a new nipple. (for a while)

I'm glad to see at least there's a couple more out there who recognize the dangers of "branding themselves" with underhammer nipple fragments. It's not that the problem is so bad really, but it just depends on a lot of things going wrong at once, the biggest problem--most likely being how badly the nipple is worn.

I've never fired an underhammer without long sleeves regardless of how doofy it looked or how hot it was outside. I guess I'm a stickler for safety, but I've seen too many injuries (not just from muzzleloaders either) in my life to want to see any more people needlessly hurt.

I'd imagine that anyone who has closely watched a percussion cap going off at night would protect themselves a little better.

Shoot Safely!
WV_Hillbilly