After posting looking for facts on Chain Detonation, filler 'n' grease and 11's vs 10's what's the real difference?? and I got some good replies... however, below I have seen these ALL written down and published as actual fact :-
So which are and which aren't???
Cleaning a BP revolver.
Use a dishwasher
Strip down the revolver and put the frame and cylinder into a dishwasher.
Then after cleaning the gun, dry it well and apply a coat of oil.
Not sure how the main spring and all the screws and pins would cope with that after every shoot!!
Load each chamber in the cylinder one at a time:
Pour in powder
Pour in the filler
Put a ball into the mouth of the chamber
Ram ball into chamber ball must be level with top of cylinder
Place grease over ball
See below...
Don’t forget that the ball needs to be flush with the front of the cylinder so you may need to use a filler.
Does it need to be flush? if so then why will the loading rod push one down nearly 1/4 of an inch into the cylinder?
The shooter who has problems with caps falling off the nipples could purchase No. 10 caps, or replace the nipples with a larger size that will work with the No. 11 caps...
Or "Oval" the No 11 cap by gently pinching the cap with thin nosed pliers.
I feel that "Oval" caps are a Chain Detonation just waiting to happen...
Sorry to keep harping on about all this but I'd like to be able to feel like I was doing it right and safe and that the "facts" I was telling a prospective new BP shooter and we have 3 possible converts since my son and myself started shooting BP at "normal" shooting times at the club rather than at the end when most of the whingers and complainers have gone home, I would like to feel that what I was telling them on How It's Done wasn't either unnecessary and/or possibly dangerous.
Isn't there somewhere all this is written down with just facts and not the plethora of internet C&P that eventually becomes fact ('cause they wouldn't let you put it on the internet/Wiki if it wasn't true) and old wives tales?
Cheers and sorry to be a bit of a bore on this one
Thanks
Gaz
So which are and which aren't???
Cleaning a BP revolver.
Use a dishwasher
Strip down the revolver and put the frame and cylinder into a dishwasher.
Then after cleaning the gun, dry it well and apply a coat of oil.
Not sure how the main spring and all the screws and pins would cope with that after every shoot!!
Load each chamber in the cylinder one at a time:
Pour in powder
Pour in the filler
Put a ball into the mouth of the chamber
Ram ball into chamber ball must be level with top of cylinder
Place grease over ball
See below...
Don’t forget that the ball needs to be flush with the front of the cylinder so you may need to use a filler.
Does it need to be flush? if so then why will the loading rod push one down nearly 1/4 of an inch into the cylinder?
The shooter who has problems with caps falling off the nipples could purchase No. 10 caps, or replace the nipples with a larger size that will work with the No. 11 caps...
Or "Oval" the No 11 cap by gently pinching the cap with thin nosed pliers.
I feel that "Oval" caps are a Chain Detonation just waiting to happen...
Sorry to keep harping on about all this but I'd like to be able to feel like I was doing it right and safe and that the "facts" I was telling a prospective new BP shooter and we have 3 possible converts since my son and myself started shooting BP at "normal" shooting times at the club rather than at the end when most of the whingers and complainers have gone home, I would like to feel that what I was telling them on How It's Done wasn't either unnecessary and/or possibly dangerous.
Isn't there somewhere all this is written down with just facts and not the plethora of internet C&P that eventually becomes fact ('cause they wouldn't let you put it on the internet/Wiki if it wasn't true) and old wives tales?
Cheers and sorry to be a bit of a bore on this one
Thanks
Gaz