The Walker objected...

[Bad Karma]

I suppose easiest way to get a chainfire would be to forget to cap cylinders. What other factors? I am sure that I will get a cap and ball revolver at some point, so real life experiences with chain fires, not just conjecture would be very interesting to me. How did yours happen Bad?

I’m sure the one I experienced came from an undersized ball in Pietta Shooters model Remington. They come with .456” chambers and the balls I used were cast by someone else at around .455” I had two chain fires and then I put it up until I got the proper mold to cast my own ball. Some say the condition occurs with ill fitted caps but I have tried to induce a chain fire by leaving the caps completely off a couple of times and the adjacent chambers would not fire. Did this with an 1860 Colt, a .36 Police model, the Shooters Model Pietta, and a Ruger Old Army. None would chain fire.

look closely at the slo-mo in that video. The chain fire is coming from the front of the cylinder. The Walkers require .457 balls and I’d bet 5 bucks they used .454 or .451”

 

[DuncNZ]

Dragoons with shoulder stocks punish improper hand placement...

I have seen a chain fire in one of these , the shooter remembered just before he shot and took his hand away from the barrel . I had a mate whos revolver had a problem with chain firing , we replaced the nipples with ones with shorter cones and used CCI no 10 caps which are shorter , no more problems .

 

[Calum]

'morning,

Yup, chain fires will wake you up. Mine only did the adjacent chamber, but nice smear of lead down the side of the pistol. My first bp revolver, one of those 1851s in .44 that didn't really exist. But I love that gun, probably my most shot revolver. Had good shaved lead, but I was pinching oversized caps (based on advice of a friend), I attribute it to the loose cap.

They're fairly common to see at reenactments, but then, there's no ball to seal the chamber. Part of the reason that I'll stick with my Sharps.

Mike

 

[nkbj]

Turning '51's into larger calibers is such a natural act that it makes you wonder how come it took the 20th Century to bring it about.

 

[Mangonboat]

As soon as I saw the guy start spinning around and going upside down in the video, I knew something was going wrong . Cap and ball revolvers aren't meant to operate in zero gravity.

 

[SPQR70AD]

... to her cigarette?

there is a tough girl. she is thin yet holding that giant pistol extended with one hand. after the chain fire she laughed. she is the opposite of all the safety first scare monger harpies who tell people their arms will be blown off from a chain fire

 

[bore_butter]

she is lucky that she got off three rounds ok and cleared that bottom frame with a live round or the outcome would have been different.

 

[Russ T Frizzen]

I’m sure the one I experienced came from an undersized ball in Pietta Shooters model Remington. They come with .456” chambers and the balls I used were cast by someone else at around .455” I had two chain fires and then I put it up until I got the proper mold to cast my own ball. Some say the condition occurs with ill fitted caps but I have tried to induce a chain fire by leaving the caps completely off a couple of times and the adjacent chambers would not fire. Did this with an 1860 Colt, a .36 Police model, the Shooters Model Pietta, and a Ruger Old Army. None would chain fire.

look closely at the slo-mo in that video. The chain fire is coming from the front of the cylinder. The Walkers require .457 balls and I’d bet 5 bucks they used .454 or .451”

The actual chainfire will always come from the front of the cylinder. But that doesn't mean that it was initiated there. And it most likely didn't. Assuming balls of correct diameter, fire from one chamber simply cannot pass into another.

 

[SPQR70AD]

she is lucky that she got off three rounds ok and cleared that bottom frame with a live round or the outcome would have been different.

yes it woulda killed everybody in a square mile

 

[Dude]

yes it woulda killed everybody in a square mile

Hahaha

Stepping through the video, I didn't see any arcing from the back side of the cylinder, only the fire at the front.

 

[Bad Karma]

yes it woulda killed everybody in a square mile

We should send a bunch of Walkers over to Russia with a supply of .451 balls…

 

[Bad Karma]

The actual chainfire will always come from the front of the cylinder. But that doesn't mean that it was initiated there. And it most likely didn't. Assuming balls of correct diameter, fire from one chamber simply cannot pass into another.

That’s the assumption. A pitted chamber, .454 balls in a .456 chamber and viola!

 

[SPQR70AD]

Hahaha

Stepping through the video, I didn't see any arcing from the back side of the cylinder, only the fire at the front.

LOL yes you are right I saw the same thing. after the chain fire that gal probably noodled a 20 lb catfish out of a mud bank

 

[deerstalkert]

LOL yes you are right I saw the same thing. after the chain fire that gal probably noodled a 20 lb catfish out of a mud bank

with that cig still dangling from her lip.

 

[nkbj]

Not centering the ram on the ball or out of round balls or out of round chambers or the sprue interfering with an evenly sheared ring... there's plenty of ways to screw up. Bear in mind that sulfur and salt peter both liquefy and turn into a self powering incandescent molten flowing mass as the black powder combusts. Ready to exploit any path it can find.

 

[Robby]

She's starting to grow on me, wonder what brand she smokes.
Watched it about ten times, at the end of the cook-off, it appears to shoot some flame out the nipple! C'mon guys, the guns nipple, geeeeze!

 

[Zulch]

She's starting to grow on me, wonder what brand she smokes.
Watched it about ten times, at the end of the cook-off, it appears to shoot some flame out the nipple! C'mon guys, the guns nipple, geeeeze!

Robby, Now THAT"S, FUNNY!!!

 

[40cal]

Wow. First time I have seen that. I have heard about it but never seen it. Glad no one was hurt. Thanks for posting.

 

[Dude]

It also doesn't look like they were shooting overly heavy loads either, so recoil shouldn't have been backing out the unfired rounds. Unless they were undersize.

Smoke from her mouth and fire outa the nipple - Dragon Lady??? Built kinda funny if that's the case.

 

[SPQR70AD]

We should send a bunch of Walkers over to Russia with a supply of .451 balls…

hillary is that you?