Range Report and QUESTION

[Little Wattsy]

I took 6 CCI Musket caps lined em up like little bowles and filled them with hot tea...Everry 20 min or so I would take one down, dump it out and fire a load. At about the 2 hour mark I capped the last one. EVERY ONE of them fired. :applause: The last one produced a slight hang-fire that may or MAY NOT have been its fault as it "poped" right on que.

I DID however have two misfires that day where the cap didnt "pop". on the second try however the same cap DID "pop".....Im thinking that those two caps were simply NOT seated well???? Is it possible that as I shoot along that I might mash the nipple a little flatter thus making it harder to seat the caps correctly? This nipple has been PERFECT untill that day...ORRRR...did I hit two bad caps that fired on the second try?
I hope that made sence.....Any Thoughts? :surrender: :surrender:

 

[Blizzard of '93]

huh - sort of an odd experiment but noteworthy. maybe you should try on a new nipple?

 

[rafterob]

If the nipple is well used I would certainly get a new one. Is spilling hot tea on one's nipple a common problem in the Field? If so you should lean forward while supping from your cup :rotf:

 

[DougMPhoto]

I guess it goes to show that human curiosity is still alive. Think back to the cavemen and them looking at a rock and saying "Hey Ogh...What do you think would happen if we put that rock on the fire and made the fire really hot". "Wow, Umgah, we made iron!"

Not sure where tea in a cap is going to go, but it discovered something I guess. :rotf:

 

[gordy]

I've found that after a few shots, it pays to wipe the cone of the nipple. On some guns the residue seems to build up and hold the cap off the anvil just enough to cause a misfire or hang fire, usually the second hammer blow will set it off. Also you might want to clean the hammer face.
By the way, its not accepted in some social circles to cool your tea in the nipples. :thumbsup:

 

[smokehouseman]

I believe you have a very worthy experiment however, this past fall while hunting early in the morning with a persistent downfall of rain I decided to slip my nipple capper (which I hang around my neck) inside my jacket so they wouldn't get wet. Now the previous day I had done the same thing. I capped my gun and off I went on my hunt. Well 3 bucks and 4 attempted shots later I had learned my lesson, those nipples had soaked up enough perspiration to the point they would not fire. As soon as I put new dry nipples on they fired right off. A lesseon learned the hard way, oh and by the way, that was the last day of the season. :cursing:

 

[Dan Leroy]

Did You Have to hold your little pinky in the air
when puttig the cap on :rotf:

Just Sayin
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Dan-L

 

[tg]

What type of musket are you shooting?

 

[Little Wattsy]

I believe you have a very worthy experiment however, this past fall while hunting early in the morning with a persistent downfall of rain I decided to slip my nipple capper (which I hang around my neck) inside my jacket so they wouldn't get wet. Now the previous day I had done the same thing. I capped my gun and off I went on my hunt. Well 3 bucks and 4 attempted shots later I had learned my lesson, those nipples had soaked up enough perspiration to the point they would not fire. As soon as I put new dry nipples on they fired right off. A lesseon learned the hard way, oh and by the way, that was the last day of the season. :cursing:

OUCH!!!!

 

[Little Wattsy]

Did You Have to hold your little pinky in the air
when puttig the cap on :rotf:

Just Sayin
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Dan-L

YES I did.... :grin:

 

[Little Wattsy]

What type of musket are you shooting?

Renegade

 

[paulvallandigham]

I. you do have to clean the nipple between shots to remove residue from the priming charge that builds up. If you don't eventually you have a cap that will not seat properly, and you get a misfire. Sorry, but cleaning these guns is a MUST, no matter what someone else tells you.

Someone is always going to have a gun they claim you can shoot all year with out cleaning, but when you watch them handle the gun, they are really doing quite a bit of " cleaning ". They just are defining the term differently.