Hello all, it has been a while. I took my TC High Plains Sporter out today to the range to sight it back in. I took it and had it shooting great last time, drove all the way home and while cleaning the peep sight came loose! :barf:
I use 80 grains of Triple7.
Problem 1: I am using a 50 caliber TC round ball along with a TC titch patch pre-soaked in boar butter (.018 thickness). The last time I shot it, it took some effort but I was able to start the ball and load/shoot. This time, I couldn't force that ball into the barrel with the patch to save my life and I am a big strong dude. The ball was actually deforming instead of loading. My workaround was to load and shoot without the patch. The ball would sometimes stop at the barrel and take a very small tap to load and sometimes would fall in all on it's own. [question: why would it load last time and not this time, nothing has changed--I am using the same equipment. Perhaps use a thinner patch or do I even need one?]
Problem 2: I switched to a TC hot shot nipple system that uses musket caps (presumably to achieve more consistent ignition). Today, I only got three shots out of the gun before it started refusing to fire--again it didn't happen last time like this. I tried several caps in a row to see if I could burn it out. Finally I had to remove the nipple system, clean it out the best I could, and then prime the pan a little to get it to shoot. Then it went back to frustrating the heck out of me and not firing. So I quit and took my frustration out on my AR15 and the guy next to me (flying hot brass).
So today when I came home I got out the handy drill and increased the aperature of that hot shot nipple just slightly to maybe prevent this (it was what another shooter recommended). Hopefully I didn't ruin it. [any other ideas how to prevent this other than increasing the aperature?]
One more question: is there any procedure at the range (since this is not an inline) to clean it between shots...my normal cleaning regimen is soapy water. If I do that at the range the day is over because the powder will get wet. But I was told that accuracy would suffer after the third or forth shot without a cleaning.
Thanks,
New
I use 80 grains of Triple7.
Problem 1: I am using a 50 caliber TC round ball along with a TC titch patch pre-soaked in boar butter (.018 thickness). The last time I shot it, it took some effort but I was able to start the ball and load/shoot. This time, I couldn't force that ball into the barrel with the patch to save my life and I am a big strong dude. The ball was actually deforming instead of loading. My workaround was to load and shoot without the patch. The ball would sometimes stop at the barrel and take a very small tap to load and sometimes would fall in all on it's own. [question: why would it load last time and not this time, nothing has changed--I am using the same equipment. Perhaps use a thinner patch or do I even need one?]
Problem 2: I switched to a TC hot shot nipple system that uses musket caps (presumably to achieve more consistent ignition). Today, I only got three shots out of the gun before it started refusing to fire--again it didn't happen last time like this. I tried several caps in a row to see if I could burn it out. Finally I had to remove the nipple system, clean it out the best I could, and then prime the pan a little to get it to shoot. Then it went back to frustrating the heck out of me and not firing. So I quit and took my frustration out on my AR15 and the guy next to me (flying hot brass).
So today when I came home I got out the handy drill and increased the aperature of that hot shot nipple just slightly to maybe prevent this (it was what another shooter recommended). Hopefully I didn't ruin it. [any other ideas how to prevent this other than increasing the aperature?]
One more question: is there any procedure at the range (since this is not an inline) to clean it between shots...my normal cleaning regimen is soapy water. If I do that at the range the day is over because the powder will get wet. But I was told that accuracy would suffer after the third or forth shot without a cleaning.
Thanks,
New