JiminTexas
40 Cal.
- Joined
- Nov 19, 2006
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I'm new at this front loading business and I order a powder horn. I'll need a powder horn right? O.K. I go through the web sites and find one that advertises an "economy model". Hey! Now that's just my cup of tea. I'm not only compulsive, but I'm cheap too. This will fit me to a "Tee". It come in and I look it over and, Dang!, it's nice! I love it! Now all that I have to do is fill it with powder and start shooting, right? WRONG! I go down and get a pound of Goex FFFg and pour it into the horn. It has one of those fancy shmancy push button feeds that you can put different size measureing tubes on. Hey that's REALL NEAT!!! I fill it up. I turn it over and put my finger over the end of the measure and push the button. I shake it a little to be sure that the powder flows in and I turn it up, take my finger off of the end an look inside. NOTHING! Not a single grain of powder! I unscrew measuring tube and look it over really good and guess what. There is something blocking the exit hole. No big deal. I'll just dig it out. I get it out and try again. Nothing. I look and sure enough there is another piece of something blocking the hole. After several tries I finally figure out that this horn was put together without the scrapings and drillings from the manufacture of it having been cleaned out of it. Now the horn is sealed. It is glued, nailed, sealed and you couldn't get into it with a cutting torch. two hours latter I finally get all of the crud out of it, but what about the nearly one pound of Goex that is now full of little pieces of horn scrapings? I can't even immagine what kind of fouling that will leave in my barrel. Another hour of sifting the powder through a tea strainer one teaspoonfull at a time and I manage to recover nearly all of the Goex. Nope, it don't pay to go the cheap route in this sport.