Safety Advice

[bisleyjohn]

The one percent are those who act outside the spirit of the word ‘sport’ for them, sportsmanship means gamesmanship. As Pete G says, you will know and you probably already do.

 

[N.Y. Yankee]

Once, I was in my fav gun store and found a nice old flinter on the used rack. In looking at the bore, I asked for a bore light. No matter what we did, we could not get light to shine up through the touch hole. We finally realized at the same moment, the rifle came in loaded and no one checked.

 

[Nyckname]

Mark that ramrod.

 

[springfield art]

There was a pirate wreck found a few years ago, I think it was the Blemi wreck but not sure. On X-ray there was a musket loaded with several ball and buckshot to boot.
In Robinson Caruso Robinson loads his gun with five ball. This was written contemporary to the events of the novel, it may not have been such a bizarre idea.

That was "buck and ball", several small balls, not a full size caliber; like the 'buck-n-ball' loads in the .69 cal. muskets; they did that back with the flinters, too. I've seen the x-rays in the publications, too; interesting!

 

[tenngun]

In the case of the Defoe novel Robinson loads one musket ball as he is about to go hunting. But as he hears about how tough the game is he thinks about it and adds more ball until he has five loaded.
The x rayed gun was a buck and ball load.