True Confessions

[lefty41]

Cowhand,
That was the best I've heard! Laughed and laughed, thanks for sharing.

 

[Zonie]

Cowhand: I bet 5 1/2 ounces would put it right up next to your fence! What say we try it and see? :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup:

 

[brushbuster]

that story was sooooo gooood :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: i nominate cowboy for a bumper sticker :applause: :applause: :applause:
I bet if youtried the same amount of powder with a twelve pound ball you would have made that extra yardage!!!! :crackup: :crackup:

 

[RussB]

Cowhand....Welcome to camp! Pull up a log and sit a spell, we got time for another story, got just a bit of extra powder here, howabout it? :thumbsup:
Russ

 

[T. A. Brown]

Here is one for ya True story. At a match some 30 years bank at 25 yards I shot my ramrod out of a .45 cal..... To make a long story short I got a 10 ring with the ramrod but didn't hit the paper with the ball and ya know they didn't give me a score for the ramrod :huh: :what:.... dead is dead....The ramrod was still in the 10 ring broke but it was stickin in it if it could have bleed it would have :imo: in my way of thinkin I should have got my points!!!!!!!!! was I wrong :shake: SOOOOOOOO I guess the bets place to put the ramrod is were it fits :shocking:

****************************

keep ye powder dry and the wind at ye back
Tim/bear1st :thumbsup:

 

I am SO glad you said this. I had the same problem with a batch of Elephant and got thrown off tmmh for saying so (and then trying to defend myself from the arogant you know what that runs tmmh, who said that I must be a total incompetent not to get Elephant to work in my flinters, and then rubbed in salt every time he got the chnce to).

Not quite that...but this spring, I did line out on the bare ground four pounds of Elephant FFFg 24/99 that was of such poor quality it had delayed ignition even in percussions and would hardly ignite in flintlocks at all.

I poured each one pound into separate 10ft lines, each was lighted separately, and each took many / several seconds to burn as I stood and watched.

(PS: Conversely, Goex is the finest thing since sliced bread!)

 

[musketman]

My favorite "True Confession" blunder was when I was deer hunting (I told this before) with my muzzleloader and I had a sinus cold that morning...

I took what I thought was my sinus nasal spray out of my pocket (without looking) and squirted a heaping mist up my nose...

Through bloodshot eyes I could see that I just squeezed a goodly amount of doe-in-heat deer urine deep into my sinus cavity...

I was shoving snow into my nose trying to dilute the urine and stop the burning while my brother's watched, too weak to help from all the gut wrenching laughing, I guess... :crackup:

 

[olgriz]

Now I laughed out loud at that one. Trouble is, this doe pee up the nose brings up a couple of questions. Did your neck swell up? Any sign of antlers making your hat hard to fit? Now you probably know why them bucks curl their lip up when they sniff that. Curled lip, swollen neck, Hmmmmmmm? This do conjur up some mighty funny thoughts. You been rubbing your head on any trees? Oh man, I wish we was at a camp passin the jug of pie right now, because you would be in for it. This is too funny. :crackup:

 

[flm_shooter]

I can honestly say I have not screwed up with a black-powder firearm....YET.

But this one time... In the Army... we were sitting in a circle cleaning our M16s during a field exercise. I carefully cleaned mine, grabbed a magazine, and performed a function check. BANG! and the blast from a blank shot right past my sergeant's ear. Seems I grabbed a loaded mag instead of an empty.

Needless to say, the rest of the exercise was not fun for me. Later on, whe I became a sergeant, I appreciated the lesson.

I do make it a rule not to talk to anyone else at the loading bench or firing line, except for safety. :m2c:

 

[JeffS]

Cowhand LMAO!, that reads like somthing a cowboy poet would tell! Awesome, thanks for fessing up, and nicely done.

Jeff

 

[gmww]

Just curious but what happens when you shoot a ram rod out of the barrel? Anything damaged other than the ramrod and pride?
:hmm:

 

[Rebel]

ramrod, pride, and whatever the ramrod and ball hit. Hopefully it is pointed in a safe direction when this happens. Also some extra recoil.

 

[musketman]

Anything damaged other than the ramrod and pride?

There is one other danger to shooting a ramrod...

If the ramrod isn't against the ball, the rod itself will act as a barrel obstruction and could cause major damage to both the gun and the shooter...

 

[Rebel]

I fergot that one, but figured the rod being as loose in the bore as it is, all the pressure would just blow by it.

 

[musketman]

I fergot that one, but figured the rod being as loose in the bore as it is, all the pressure would just blow by it.

Not if the patch is doing it's job right, there should be no blow-by...

The ball will speed down the barrel a few inches only to impact the face of the ramrod, the soft lead would start to expand the same as if it hits a deer, only this time, the expansion is confined within the barrel, making the patch seal even tighter...

Dangerous pressure levels are created as well as more felt recoil...

The powder charge was designed to shoot the weight of a projectile in any givin muzzleloader, now add the weight of your ramrod (in grains) to the projectiles weight...

Yea, more mass to push, the expanding gasses of the powder burning have to work harder, thus, more recoil is felt by the shooter...