Prof Young
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Smoke Pole Shooters:
I have a CVA Kentucky Rifle kit gun that I bought assembled at an auction. $80 seemed like a good buy. I cleaned the bore, cleaned the nipple and cleaned to whole flash channel to the point that, with the screw on the end of the tube that the nipple screws into removed, I could shine a light thru that tube and see it at the bottom of the barrel. So there is/was no obstruction between cap end of nipple and the bottom of the barrel. It's a 45 cal so I loaded up with 80g (by volume) of Pyrodex RS, installed a Remington "new and hotter" #11 cap and bang but no boom. I try another cap. This cap doesn't even go bang. Two more caps don't go bang (And yes I bought these caps new just days ago). The fifth cap goes bang but still no boom. All in all I went through about ten caps and half didn't fire and half did but still no boom. Reamed the nipple to no avail. Tried a new nipple to no avail. Not sure what to do next. Looked on line for hotter caps but only ones I've found so far that were not remington I could only buy in 1000 cap lots.
Help!!!!
Life is nonetheless Good
Prof Young
I have a CVA Kentucky Rifle kit gun that I bought assembled at an auction. $80 seemed like a good buy. I cleaned the bore, cleaned the nipple and cleaned to whole flash channel to the point that, with the screw on the end of the tube that the nipple screws into removed, I could shine a light thru that tube and see it at the bottom of the barrel. So there is/was no obstruction between cap end of nipple and the bottom of the barrel. It's a 45 cal so I loaded up with 80g (by volume) of Pyrodex RS, installed a Remington "new and hotter" #11 cap and bang but no boom. I try another cap. This cap doesn't even go bang. Two more caps don't go bang (And yes I bought these caps new just days ago). The fifth cap goes bang but still no boom. All in all I went through about ten caps and half didn't fire and half did but still no boom. Reamed the nipple to no avail. Tried a new nipple to no avail. Not sure what to do next. Looked on line for hotter caps but only ones I've found so far that were not remington I could only buy in 1000 cap lots.
Help!!!!
Life is nonetheless Good
Prof Young