Question Re: Suggested BP loads for .44 cal and 36 cal brass -framed replicas
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Lee McNelly
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maybe
thats why some have chain fires over loading
thats why some have chain fires over loading
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As wear increases and tolerances open-up, fire can get inside many ways.
The jury is still out on wheather a chain fire occurs from the front or the nipples of a revolver but in any case, loose guns are dangerous!
A loose cylinder acn promote cap misfires cause thecaps aren't being hit right.
The plain solution is do not overload a Brasser!
If you have a loose one make it a wallhqanger. BP revolvers are cheap enough as to not endanger yourself or innocent bystanders! Buy yourself a new safe gun.
ZVP
As wear increases and tolerances open-up, fire can get inside many ways.
The jury is still out on wheather a chain fire occurs from the front or the nipples of a revolver but in any case, loose guns are dangerous!
A loose cylinder acn promote cap misfires cause thecaps aren't being hit right.
The plain solution is do not overload a Brasser!
If you have a loose one make it a wallhqanger. BP revolvers are cheap enough as to not endanger yourself or innocent bystanders! Buy yourself a new safe gun.
ZVP
I'm unable to visualize those many ways. Maybe you could provide a list.
So far, all i can come up with is through the nipple due to a loose cap or past the ball in the chamber due to a flaw in the ball or chamber. Are there other ways into a chamber that get loose with wear that I'm not aware of?
Maybe ZVP means to say that excessive end shake may cause a loose fitting cap to fall off a nipple due to the "extra" battering of the cylinder from recoil.
In that one respect he may be right that the odds of a cap falling could be slightly increased without actually clearly stating it that way.
I've been squeezing #11 caps lately so that they fit the nipples better and I can't say that any possible associated increase in the risk bothers me. I don't think that it would increase the risk to bystanders since they wouldn't be in the line of fire if there were a chainfire.
But that's a risk that everyone needs to decide for themselves and is not only related to brassers or their amount of end shake.
While some may argue that using a squeezed cap would represent an increased risk, how well any cap fits any gun is not something that's easy for anyone to quantify.
In that one respect he may be right that the odds of a cap falling could be slightly increased without actually clearly stating it that way.
I've been squeezing #11 caps lately so that they fit the nipples better and I can't say that any possible associated increase in the risk bothers me. I don't think that it would increase the risk to bystanders since they wouldn't be in the line of fire if there were a chainfire.
But that's a risk that everyone needs to decide for themselves and is not only related to brassers or their amount of end shake.
While some may argue that using a squeezed cap would represent an increased risk, how well any cap fits any gun is not something that's easy for anyone to quantify.
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Lee McNelly
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SIMPLY
Because it is damaged
Because it is damaged