Taping the barrel

[sidelock]

My first BP hunting trip lasted for a week many years ago. While setting up camp it started to rain and continued a downpour for the whole week, a full 6 days. I hunted every day in the rain from first light till the last but never got a shot and didn't reload any time. I didn't use anything to cover the muzzle or lock but fired my rifle to unload the evening of the last day and the rifle fired just fine.

 

[coloradoclyde]

I guess its a matter of perspective...some view a "problem" as something to be mitigated.

I don't view it as a problem.
It's manageable.

different solutions for different people. :v

 

[larry wv]

I have used black electrical tape while hunting for years. I think it's a good thing. You know the old saying. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Larry

 

[Billnpatti]

Yep, Mike, I couldn't agree with you more. As they say, "Prevention is the best cure." :hatsoff:

 

[Shine]

I use a piece of oil cloth held fast by a string of pure linen. Maybe ill use some pine tar to hold it on if its really wet.

 

[Billnpatti]

Yep, you never can tell. Folks have done stranger things. :haha:

 

[M. De Land]

I believe it's a matter of the weather conditions and topography hunted in.
I have spent some time on the south end of Kodiak hunting deer from a skiff in the salt water and in wind driven rain ,much of it in the alder brush.
I believe this would make a muzzle tape convert out of you Clyde! :wink:
Not to mention glacier silt in the wind when hunting in or around glacier moraines.
This grit will get into anything that is not sealed shut and the last place one wants it is in his bore. Mike D.

 

[coloradoclyde]

:surrender: :surrender: :surrender: :surrender:

 

[paul54]

I tape the barrel to keep snow and water out. Also, manure falling off trees. Thanks all.

Been taping barrels for years with no problems. I've used electrical and masking tape.

 

[Col. Batguano]

I tape the barrel to keep snow and water out. Also, manure falling off trees. Thanks all.

Been taping barrels for years with no problems. I've used electrical and masking tape.

Another vote for taping. :thumbsup: I take the tape off at night if I'm going to be indoors though, and the barrel is non-stainless steel.

 

[Captjoel]

I use a balloon over the muzzle.

 

[cynthialee]

I use a balloon over the muzzle.

and it is a good thing we do not live in a universe that runs on cartoon physics
:rotf:

 

[azmntman]

I have used a "finger cot" we used to use em at the local paper when inserting ads by hand (dating myself, lol). Look like lil condoms and un roll just the same and are a TIGHT seal. I usually have no weather to deal with here in BP season though and haven't been in newspaper printing business in 25 years so I am out, but if ya can find em the work(ed) great!

 

[Billnpatti]

Nope, and it is a good idea when you are in an environment where you could get a plug of some kind in your barrel. Some people buy latex gloves and cut off the fingers and use them to go over their muzzle to keep out unwanted stuff.

 

[Col. Batguano]

I use a balloon over the muzzle.

and it is a good thing we do not live in a universe that runs on cartoon physics
:rotf:

What a great visual! :hatsoff: :rotf: :rotf: It would make a really fun science experiment. Tape a balloon of significant capacity to a muzzle with a really small blank charge in the bore. Maybe even just a percussion cap. Set it off, and see how much it fills the balloon and if it would blow back in the barrel or back through the flash hole.

 

[Wes/Tex]

Set it off, and see how much it fills the balloon and if it would blow back in the barrel or back through the flash hole.

Well, I see one possible foible with that plan!
http://funnystack.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Funny-Air-Balloon-55.jpg

 

[Billnpatti]

Warning.....Buzz kill.......I'm afraid your balloon would have to be made of asbestos or the muzzle flash would burn a hole through it when the gun fired. But, just for grins, let's suppose you have a balloon made of magic material that won't have a hole blown in it. It will inflate with hot gasses. the size of the resultant balloon would be determined by how much black powder you loaded. Specifically by the number of moles of each of the components. Under standard temperature and pressure, one mole of a given material will produce 22.5 cubic feet of gas. Then, since the pressure inside the balloon would be greater than the ambient pressure (determined by the elasticity of the balloon's magic material), the gasses would simply leak back through the touch hole or nipple until the balloon deflates or is removed. And that's the truth. :thumbsup:

 

[Col. Batguano]

Yeah. So how cool would that be? It would be even better if it sounded like a whoopee cushion when it came out the vent hole.

I might give it a try tonight with just an air rifle, and then work my way up to a primed (no powder) cartridge, and a #11, and then a musket cap.

So what's the gas-yield per grain of black powder, and the temperature of the gasses leaving the barrel anyhow?