This could have been bad !!!

[pa woods roamer]

Was At A Turkey shoot yesterday. Among our Group was a new shooter. He had a traditions Flintlock that would not go off. Was giving Him help when i noticed He had a piece of cloth Patching holding In his Flint. Told him right off that was a no-no!! He said that is the only way a He can get the Flint to stay In.Finally got Him to understand that the Cloth can/ will hold A Spark and when He dumps Powder down the barrel or Primes there is going to be an Explosion and somebody Is going to get hurt !! Rigged Him up with A piece of leather and everything went fine.......

 

[Stumpkiller]

Good catch. That's one of those "may never have been a problem" practices that you don't want to be the one poor statistical fluke who does it and loses his eyebrows or much worse.

Char cloth + priming powder = "Foosh!" and likely "Bang!"

 

[Rifleman1776]

Good on you. :hatsoff:
I have trouble understanding guys who get ml's and start trying to use them without seeking guidance first.

 

[BrownBear]

I have trouble understanding guys who get ml's and start trying to use them without seeking guidance first.

That's covered in The Man's Prayer heard every night at the Possum Lake Lodge:

I'm a man,
But I can change,
If I have to,
I guess. :wink:

Or as my daughter explains:

It takes a million sperm to fertilize a single egg, because not a one of them will stop to ask for directions. :haha:

 

[hawkeye2]

:rotf: :thumbsup:

 

[Artificer]

Yes, me too. :rotf:

Gus

 

[Katahdin]

and the other famous Red Greene saying,,"If it ain't broke,,you just ain't trying hard enough"

 

[azmntman]

Guy needs a mentor afore he dumps from his horn (or can!) and takes out a few folks!! I had a mentor, believe everybody can use one for at least first few trips o the range (and/or till he dryballs)

 

[William O.]

I have trouble understanding guys who get ml's and start trying to use them without seeking guidance first.

That's covered in The Man's Prayer heard every night at the Possum Lake Lodge:

I'm a man,
But I can change,
If I have to,
I guess. :wink:

The Red Green show!

 

[Alden]

Thos're good! LOL

 

[larryp]

When I was a teen back in the 70's and first started shooting blackpowder there wasn't anyone else around who knew anything about them. Fortunately there were lots of books and magazines for me to learn from.

 

[pa woods roamer]

Started shooting in the early 80`s. The Club I joined, and learned a lot from, was run by my uncle, A WW2 Airborne Vet. He insisted on safety and would put on little demonstrations of what could happen if mistakes were made. Guess It kinda stuck with Me ??

 

[fire-n-brimstone]

When I started I had no mentor or anyone to show me. Luckily I had the internet.

 

[tom deinek]

When I started reloading fixed cartridges, there was no internet & nobody who didn't think I was nuts.

Bet I wore out 3-4 kinetic bullet pullers before I got the general hang of it.

I was better off with bp. I had watched every episode of Disney's Davie Crockett and had therefrom an idea of how that kind of shooting worked.

 

[Mickc01]

Guy needs a mentor afore he dumps from his horn (or can!) and takes out a few folks!! I had a mentor, believe everybody can use one for at least first few trips o the range (and/or till he dryballs)

Yikes!!! What a mental picture this draws. I used to truly believe that the vast majority of people where not stupid, they where just uninformed. I have since changed to the notion that nope, there are a BUNCH of people in the world who are just dumb as rocks.

And ditto on the mentor.

 

[kopfjaeger]

He was lucky you were there and seen it before an accident happened.