[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Dangerous loading practices

Posted: 7/27/2011 1:04:01 PM EDT

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Posted: 7/27/2011 1:07:41 PM EDT

[#1]

Whoah.

That Thompson was fucked.

Posted: 7/27/2011 1:13:41 PM EDT

[#2]

Neat.

Posted: 7/27/2011 1:19:56 PM EDT

[#3]

Muzzleloaders are surprisingly forgiving with black powder, you almost can't over load one. I've seen cases where people loaded a charge on top of another charge and shot it.. Lots of recoil, no problems other than that. You can put two round balls on top of each other and as long as they are tightly packed it shouldn't explode. Airspace is the death of a ML, you don't ever want room between powder and ball.

Savage made some ML's designed for smokeless powder IIRC. Seem to recall a few blown up ones from people pushing the limits.

Posted: 7/27/2011 1:20:27 PM EDT

[#4]

120 grains of pistol powder! I pretty much guessed how that would end up.

Posted: 7/27/2011 1:22:36 PM EDT

[#5]

That would cause a lot of bleeding errr sorry, leaking.

Posted: 7/27/2011 1:28:11 PM EDT

[#6]

Wasn't there a story of one of the great 19th century African big game hunters shooting a double charged 4 bore smoothbore?

Posted: 7/27/2011 1:33:18 PM EDT

[#7]

That will buff out

Posted: 7/27/2011 1:44:25 PM EDT

[#8]

Good safety reminder.

Posted: 7/27/2011 1:46:15 PM EDT

[#9]

Their "slow motion" would have been AWESOME if were about 1000x slower.

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