1856, 44 Navy Colt reproduction accidental discharge.
Surprised the heck out of me. Yesterday I was out with a gun that I purchased when I was 16 many MANY years ago. It was the first time I have had it out in some time.
I cleared all 6 chambers but had a little trouble getting one chamber to seat but it fired on the second time around. Fired another cylinder primers only and had no problems.
Checked it all out and everything looked good so I loaded and fired the 6. Two chambers took two hits to set off. These were new primers and the 30GR charges. So I check the gun and made sure there the action was cleared of fired primers and loaded her again.
That was when the problem started. I had one chamber that wouldn’t go off and it locked up. The hammer was on the primmer but wouldn’t come back far enough to rotate the cylinder.
So I held the hammer back and lightly tapped the wedge so that I could get the chamber out of the gun. This went well and I noticed that the primer was deformed on the nipple from being hit several times and off center.
I was nervous about pulling off a hot primer with the cylinder in my hand so I reassembled the gun with the loaded round away from the hammer but first made sure that the action was clear and working.
I got the gun back together and ran the action till the same round came up and again it failed to fire and locked up the action which meant that the hammer wasn’t going down far enough to unlock it. So being extremely careful and keeping the gun pointed down range I held the hammer as far back as I could and using a small straight slot screwdriver tried to push the primer off the nipple.
Loud bang and a cloud of smoke and a hole in the ground about 10 feet in front of me.
I was no worse for wear other than the thought of maybe needing a new set of underwear. Didn’t even get powder burns from my hand being that close to the end of the chamber.
They were the correct primer and there was only one other person at the range who was a friend and I had him get well back from the firing line when I started having problems.
Anyone have a similar discharge of a primer just from trying to remove it?
I still had hold of the hammer, my thumb was wrapped around it to keep it back and no finger on the trigger so it was the action of removing the primer that set it off.
One thing is for sure, I think it’s time for new nipples.
Surprised the heck out of me. Yesterday I was out with a gun that I purchased when I was 16 many MANY years ago. It was the first time I have had it out in some time.
I cleared all 6 chambers but had a little trouble getting one chamber to seat but it fired on the second time around. Fired another cylinder primers only and had no problems.
Checked it all out and everything looked good so I loaded and fired the 6. Two chambers took two hits to set off. These were new primers and the 30GR charges. So I check the gun and made sure there the action was cleared of fired primers and loaded her again.
That was when the problem started. I had one chamber that wouldn’t go off and it locked up. The hammer was on the primmer but wouldn’t come back far enough to rotate the cylinder.
So I held the hammer back and lightly tapped the wedge so that I could get the chamber out of the gun. This went well and I noticed that the primer was deformed on the nipple from being hit several times and off center.
I was nervous about pulling off a hot primer with the cylinder in my hand so I reassembled the gun with the loaded round away from the hammer but first made sure that the action was clear and working.
I got the gun back together and ran the action till the same round came up and again it failed to fire and locked up the action which meant that the hammer wasn’t going down far enough to unlock it. So being extremely careful and keeping the gun pointed down range I held the hammer as far back as I could and using a small straight slot screwdriver tried to push the primer off the nipple.
Loud bang and a cloud of smoke and a hole in the ground about 10 feet in front of me.
I was no worse for wear other than the thought of maybe needing a new set of underwear. Didn’t even get powder burns from my hand being that close to the end of the chamber.
They were the correct primer and there was only one other person at the range who was a friend and I had him get well back from the firing line when I started having problems.
Anyone have a similar discharge of a primer just from trying to remove it?
I still had hold of the hammer, my thumb was wrapped around it to keep it back and no finger on the trigger so it was the action of removing the primer that set it off.
One thing is for sure, I think it’s time for new nipples.