Who has NEVER had a misfire?

[wtilenw]

Had lots while shooting pyrodex. :cursing: :shake:

Havent had a single one since switching to the real stuff. (knock on wood). :grin:

Amen, Brother!

 

[Slamfire]

I've had a couple with my underhammer, until I figured out I needed to choke up on the rod when wipin' the bore with a cleanin' patch. :surrender:

 

[BRUN]

Misfires?Only when I talk. :redface: No Wait a second that would be full auto :grin:

 

[sidelock]

Yes. I had one once. My T/C .50 had been loaded for something like 16 months when I decided to fire it off. It wouldn't go even with 3 caps. Removed the nipple and sifted a few grains of 2F in. New cap and BOOM. I wouldn't recomend this, but you asked. :v

 

[noworries]

Wish I could say I have never had any but I have had many...when my fault it usually seemed to be due to not swabbing the barrel well enough and the oil setteling at the breech.most seemed to be due to the caps I was using....cci....never a prob with rws caps though.

 

[fw707]

I don't care what ANYONE says, there are only two types.
Those that have, and those that will.
Headhunter

Yep, if you shoot enough it will happen.
I shot caplocks for several years and don't remember a misfire. Then I got my first flinter. :cursing: I fought with it till I was tired of fighting, and then I sold it. :surrender: :applause:
Now--25 years later--I've got 2 nice rifles with good quality flintlocks on 'em and all is well. :grin:

 

[paulvallandigham]

Sorry, Dawg: I have had failures to fire, ( no powder in the percussion cap!) I have had flashes in the pan, with flintlocks. I have had misfires where the cap fired, or the prime lit, but the main charge was wet, or I dry balled.

I there is a way to make a gun NOT fire, I think I have probably found it. But that is all part of the learning process, and its been years since I dry balled a barrel. My loading procedure insures that the main charge will fire if the prime burns, so the only way I don't get the gun to fire is if the flint fails on me. I had a flint fail, losing a huge chunk in the middle of the edge, because of an inclusion, or vug, in the flint, which was not visible to the naked eye before the failure. What was left looked like a two tined fork! I had to replace that flint while walking in a parade.

You will have to find someone else. I am of the opinion that if you have fired MLs for any length of time, you will have experienced a misfire, for one reason or another.

 

[BRUN]

Do caps not goin off count?Had that happen lots.Had to cock the hammer again to make them snap.A little file work on the nipple fixed that.Lots of misfires with a flint lock.And a few with pyrodex fixed that also with the real stuff.

 

[shmrck1]

Dawg,
Had a few, none when it counted though....
just lucky I guess.
snake-eyes :hmm:

 

[MikeChapin]

Very rarely with the percussion rifles. Once in a great while the rifles will pop and nothing will happen. The flint rifles have a few more misfires. It usually happens when I'm trying to squeeze out the last few shots from a worn out flint or the flint has loosened in the jaws.

 

[RickD]

What few I`ve have mostly have been my fault..I`ve never had one while hunting but at the range I`ve had a few that have been caused by me not the gun..Seems to always happen when someone is watching me..

 

[Halftail]

I had a miss-fire once while hunting.I hunted 23 mornings and evenings in the fall of 04' and when He stepped out I drew down on him and SNAP was all that happened....I learned from that mistake.Misfires at the range are more common with my Flintlock than any of my capguns.I guess thats what make Flintlocks so much fun trying to master them.

 

[spottedpony]

Do caps not goin off count?Had that happen lots.Had to cock the hammer again to make them snap.

Ditto for me, ive had quite a few cci caps fail to fire, sometimes the second snap would fire them, sometimes not. With remingtons, ive only had it happen once, and that was a plugged nipple. I seem to recall once i dryballed, and a couple of times i forgot to dry patch the barrel before first loading. :redface: As others have said, its all part of the learning curve.

 

[BRUN]

cci's were the ones I used also.The gun shop in town had some cva caps but I havent tried them yet.

 

[Dave Rosenthal]

Howdy! Only because I'm so stupid as to not doing what I preach : capping-off after runnin a brush thru the charcoal burner (Trade Rifle .50 cal) :redface: :cursing: If I follow my own advice I always get a BANG out of it! :rotf: . My son has had a cap get stuck in the hammer just once, but other than that, his goes BANG all the time...must be very gracious to those that never had a problem :bow: :rotf: :surrender: . All the best, Dave

 

[barebackjack]

I also joined the dryball club last fall. Shot a crippled snow goose running down a frozen lake shore, got a bit excited (i have a snow goose hunting problem, addiction, obsession, looooove the snow geese), got pretty excited about it all and while telling the story to my buddy while reloading I looked in my bag and said, "now why do I have five powder charges left and only four balls in the block......manure!"

Needless to say I still get alot of ribbing for that one.

 

[spottedpony]

cci's were the ones I used also.The gun shop in town had some cva caps but I havent tried them yet.

Brun, ive read elsewhere that cva's are made by cci and just repackaged under the cva label. donno for sure, but it'd be worth investigating

 

[BRUN]

Good to know. :thumbsup:

 

[rabjr]

RWS caps my friend, everything else is junk.

 

[jtmattison]

RWS caps my friend, everything else is junk.

I don't agree. I have used nothing but remington caps and never had one fail.

HD