As the years passed. particularly while doing my amateur coaching. I noticed there were lot of people felt that everything that happened to them were the fault of somebody else. I believe there may be a political party based on that belief. So there are probably a bunch of good folks on the forum who suffer from things that were not their fault.I thought I would look into some of these situations that are easily spotted when you find someone who is mad at his rifle.
The most common mistakes rifles make is allowing baked on crud to fasten on to there making it hard to load.
When this situation happens the wood ram rod is made to shatter when pounded in trying to load.
Another spectacular thing rifles do it to load without powder and require a lot of effort to clear out.
Sometimes the rifle will grab on to a lead ball to tightly it can't get loose and driving a screw into in only makes the ball increase in size to make the rifle grab on tighter.
A more spectacular dumb thing a rifle can do is to fire while the ram rod is still in the barrelThis is a cheap way the barrel has of drawing attention to itself. The rods often shake as they fly downrange and this makes an attention getting noise.
greedy barrel will sometimes gulp down a double load or sometime with just one or two extra balls loaded on top of the powder charge.The joy this gives the rifle is a greatly increased amount of recoil.Some riflemen with purple bruised shoulders claim that this is some sort of revenge the barrel directs on the innocent rifleman.
Misbehaving rifles have caused a movement toward the modern rifle which fires ammunition designed by experts but assembled by some self medicating heavy breather who is more concerned about quitting time or the noon whistle than exactitude.
I am sure there are hundreds of examples of undisciplined rifles out there that were nobody's fault but their own.
I had a Ricjland arms flintlock that finally began to fire but apparently spit out out that wedge that the barrel refused to keep it in place and the barrel lifted most of the way out of the stock and the ball may still be traveling. I have a tiny feeling that I may have been slightly responsible but not as much has that rifle.
Dutch Schoultz
The most common mistakes rifles make is allowing baked on crud to fasten on to there making it hard to load.
When this situation happens the wood ram rod is made to shatter when pounded in trying to load.
Another spectacular thing rifles do it to load without powder and require a lot of effort to clear out.
Sometimes the rifle will grab on to a lead ball to tightly it can't get loose and driving a screw into in only makes the ball increase in size to make the rifle grab on tighter.
A more spectacular dumb thing a rifle can do is to fire while the ram rod is still in the barrelThis is a cheap way the barrel has of drawing attention to itself. The rods often shake as they fly downrange and this makes an attention getting noise.
greedy barrel will sometimes gulp down a double load or sometime with just one or two extra balls loaded on top of the powder charge.The joy this gives the rifle is a greatly increased amount of recoil.Some riflemen with purple bruised shoulders claim that this is some sort of revenge the barrel directs on the innocent rifleman.
Misbehaving rifles have caused a movement toward the modern rifle which fires ammunition designed by experts but assembled by some self medicating heavy breather who is more concerned about quitting time or the noon whistle than exactitude.
I am sure there are hundreds of examples of undisciplined rifles out there that were nobody's fault but their own.
I had a Ricjland arms flintlock that finally began to fire but apparently spit out out that wedge that the barrel refused to keep it in place and the barrel lifted most of the way out of the stock and the ball may still be traveling. I have a tiny feeling that I may have been slightly responsible but not as much has that rifle.
Dutch Schoultz