Where Is Your BP Container When You Squeeze The Trigger?

I usually take up two shooting lanes, one for loading one for shooting. If someone needs the lane, I slow way down, cap up powder and primer box and remove from the lane until fired, then bring it all back to reload.

When shooting from the truck with benches, I try to set up a card table to spread out on. it's next to the tailgate where all the powder and caps are. Hard to explain, and no picture but basically more than an arms length between where I shoot and where I reload. I recap all containers before I shoot.

Recently went to a conversion in my Dragoons so I'm loading a lot less at the range.
 
Loading from a flask

Maillemaker said:
Roshi said:
I've always loaded my revolvers from a flask. The flask is returned to my "possibles box" which is closed when firing. I do not consider the likelihood of more than what's in the spout going up from an ember in the chamber to be very high. However, even that could cause some serious burns. I will now make it point to blow into the chambers and allow some rest time between loads.
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Cookoffs are rare but can and do happen, as any N-SSA veteran can tell you.

I would not want to experiment to see if only the powder in the spout went off leaving the rest of the flask untouched. I would expect the whole thing to go off.

Steve
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While the possibiity of a 'cook off' in a rifle or single shot pistol is a very real possiblity; and, happens from time to time; I do not know of any documented cases of it happening while loading a revolver from a flask.
 
Do as I say; not as I do !!

I would not want to experiment to see if only the powder in the spout went off leaving the rest of the flask untouched. I would expect the whole thing to go off.
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What we teach;
We teach that you only load from a calibrate measurer as this would cause minimal danger, in the presence of any embers. We also teach to pump the rod and wait .... ;)

What I do;
On rifles and single-shot pistols and on the bench, I load from a flask or horn with a calibrated spout. I do take precausions to eliminate any embers, such as "pumping" the rod and wait.

In all cases, we never blow down the bore and I know full well, that some of you do. ..... ;)

Be Safe !!!
 
All the clubs I shoot at go by the NMLRA rulebook, so loading directly from a flask with a calibrated spout is forbidden, along with blowing down the barrel.

Most of the target shooters wipe the bore with a damp cleaning patch between each shot anyway.
For what it's worth, in the many years I have been going to black powder shoots, I have never witnessed a cookoff during loading.

The trap and skeet shooters usually don't wipe the bore before reloading, but they have a short walk back to the loading table which gives any ember time to go out and I have never seen a cookoff at the shotgun range either.

I would guess the situation where a cookoff is most likely is a skirmish match where a team of shooters is shooting and loading as fast as possible.
 
Back bench. Caps are on the front bench.
Or back table. Caps on the front table.
It's the rule in some places here, but it's my rule wherever I go. Back bench and front bench.
(Unless I'm on the motorcycle. And I have yet to do any black powder shooting off the motorcycle. As yet.)
dc
 
{QOUTE}:I ran across a couple YouTube videos of BP containers blowing up on a shooting bench when guys pulled the trigger. I guess sparks from the pan, off the cap or from the muzzle ignited a pound of BP. A pound of Goex or substitute that goes bang is real scary-- blew the shooters backwards off the bench.

So where's the You tube video link? I'd like to see it and try to figure out why it exploded. Did he have the cap screwed on or off the can? etc....
 
The likelyhood that a container of black powder going off, and a camera just happening to record it, is so low that I suspect that most U-tube videos showing such an event were staged.
 
I don't usually do club shoots, too restrictive for my taste. Just use common sense and you'll be fine.
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Compared to the rule-nazis that run the local public range where I live, the clubs I shoot at are downright easy going, and don't treat you like you're Gomer Pyle.
 
robhof

Mine's usually hanging at my side too, I've got a flask or horn dedicated to each of my B/p guns with the usual load nozzle asttached, although for rapid reloads, I use a separate powder holder(large straight wall cartridge) fo pouring into the barrel or cylinder.:rolleyes::D
 
while I prefer shooting on private property, the local gun range is very cool. A lot of times if I go during the day, I may indeed be the only one shooting. It's ran relaxed, unless you are being a complete idiot, the shooters pretty much run it amongst themselves. Even the military range at Ft. Hood is pretty laid back, except that when the Army is shooting the zero range, every time they cease fire, you have to, which is frequent because every couple shots they fire they go downrange to check their targets.
 
It can and has happened

I suspect that most U-tube videos showing such an event were staged.
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Going to have to agree with you but the message is, that it can happen. I've only seen it on two occasions and on one, I warned the guy what might happen and it did. Did not actually explode but he did get burned. .... :mad:


Mind your powder and;
Be Safe !!!
 
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