Grizzly Adams
50 Cal.
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Donny said:You got me thinking. I wonder how many original rifles broken at the wrist (or forearm) now in a collection were broken over someones head?
How hard do you think it is to break the wrist of a rifle from a drop from a horse?
I am not going to test that.
Can you think of other ways the wrist could be broken?
I don't believe it would be easy to break one from general day to day use? ? ?
I think of the gun lands flat, the wrist will be fine. If one end lands first, or the middle lands after the ends, it will likely break like a piece of spaghetti.
As far as how to break a wrist, it thing overzealously seating a charge would do the trick. If you ever look close at somebody with a very skinny gun seating a very tight charge, the gun will flex. I have pointed it out to a lot of other LR shooters and they tend to freak out a little. That's why I tend to use a sharp, short stroke when seating the ball, rather than heavy strokes.