Loaded for a week?

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ZVP

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Well I went and did it, I loaded my Piettia Police with 6 cylinderfulls and forgot to cap and shoot it. I had 3 other guns out and just skipped firing off the gun (it's NOT capped).
When I put the revolvers back in the Range Bag, I somehow over-looked that the revolver was still loaded! When I got home and went to secure the gun in the safe, I discovered the loads!
Now because of commitments I'll have to wait till next weekend to shoot the charges off... This'll answer if Pyrodex stayes good for a week!
ZVP
 
I got home and went to secure the gun in the safe, I discovered the loads!
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I can't forsee myself forgetting to fire a cap-and-ball revolver I had just loaded, but if I did I know I would have discovered it while cleaning before securing it in the safe;)
 
If it hadn't been fired it didn't need to be cleaned.

And if it's not capped it's not loaded.

A chamber with powder and ball but no cap is charged, not loaded. Add the cap, and it's loaded.
 
BTDT, once I went to the firing range, loaded my Uberti made 1858 Remington to discover that I had no caps with me. And nobody else at the range on that day was muzzleloading.
So I had to go back home and on the next weekend I happily fired all the six shots without any problem.

K.
 
hygroscopic BP substiture

Just to be safe put the Pistol in a one gallon zipper bag with some dessicant. BP and Pyrodex will absorb water from the air.

I'm not a BP shooter but used to hang around with one.
 
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If it hadn't been fired it didn't need to be cleaned.

And if it's not capped it's not loaded.

A chamber with powder and ball but no cap is charged, not loaded. Add the cap, and it's loaded.
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He said he loaded six cylinderfulls, by which I understood he must have shot five. Now I see he must have meant six chamberfulls. O.K.

As for loaded vs. not loaded you're speaking legalese. I think we all would normally say we are "loading" a cap-and-ball revolver anywhere in the process of pouring in powder and seating balls, even if we don't get to capping the nipples.

Either way, understanding the gun didn't need cleaning, I rescind my previous post made in humor.
 
Just to be safe put the Pistol in a one gallon zipper bag with some dessicant. BP and Pyrodex will absorb water from the air.
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Nah, not as long as no air gets to it. It will stay viable for centuries, even buried in the ground.
 
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