Model12Win
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Hello all!
So most of us know that to load the Brown Bess or most other flintlock muskets you:
-Cock the hammer, open the frizzen.
-Bite the cartridge, fill pan, close frizzen. Keep in mind the hammer is COCKED.
-Dump powder down barrel and ram ball home... while the hammer is COCKED.
Does anybody else see a problem with this? Couldn't the hammer slip or break while loading the ball and powder down the bore, igniting the powder and blowing off the shooter's hands?
I am going to purchase an M1816 .69 caliber musket someday, and would like to shoot it in the above historical army manner. But I am scared the the gun could go off and I would die before they got me to the hospital.
So what do you flintlockers think about this?
So most of us know that to load the Brown Bess or most other flintlock muskets you:
-Cock the hammer, open the frizzen.
-Bite the cartridge, fill pan, close frizzen. Keep in mind the hammer is COCKED.
-Dump powder down barrel and ram ball home... while the hammer is COCKED.
Does anybody else see a problem with this? Couldn't the hammer slip or break while loading the ball and powder down the bore, igniting the powder and blowing off the shooter's hands?
I am going to purchase an M1816 .69 caliber musket someday, and would like to shoot it in the above historical army manner. But I am scared the the gun could go off and I would die before they got me to the hospital.
So what do you flintlockers think about this?
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