Reminds me of the time I took my then 10 year old son to the local range to fire our Ruger Old Army percussion cap & black powder revolvers...
Not wanting to fire more that 30 grains of powder at the 25 yd targets, we would use a volume trimmed nipple that dispensed just that amount - which only half filled the chamber -- so I elected to fill to the top with corn meal and then press the ball into the corn meal until the ball was below flush with top of cylinder. We would then wipe in a bit of grease.
Shooting two stations away from us was a nosy loudmouth that had already pissed me off by his excessive loud talking, rapid fire with junk guns, firing on the wrong targets - and I suspected he was under the influence of something other that good sense.
Well, he heard me ask my son to pass the corn meal to my station -- and uninvited, he approached me and watched me add the cornmeal to my chambers (AFTER THE BLACK POWDER HAD ALREADY BEEN LOADED)-- press the balls into place, install the caps and prepare to fire..
He asked me to confirm that I was really "using" corn meal in my pistol and I answered in the affirmative.
He then informed me that he didn't know that corn meal was an "explosive"....
Without explaining the error of his assumption - I simply said "watch this" -- and fired off 6 flaming and smoking black powder rounds...
He was SHOCKED.... he said he would immediately inform his wife to be a lot more careful with their corn meal!
Stupid bastards are everywhere -- be very afraid..
Semper Fi
Dang, I miss those days, and don't get into it that much anymore. Maybe some of us just mellow too much with age? :(
I'd like to find that fire again, River Rat. Maybe I will. Posts like yours bring back memories.
LOL
I understand if you use self-rising cornmeal that the gun shoots high.
Post of the day!I had to laugh especially about rapid fire with junk guns.Last time on the range,I may have ran into this guy!He inherited his father's gun collection,which there were some nice ones,but he felt a need to shoot them all,and if he could have,would have fired them all at the same time!He made me nervous right off the bat when he carried them from his car stacked like firewood.No cases of course.He took a spot right next to me,so I moved.I was trying to sight in my 30-30,and 22 rifle,as I had the lens replaced in my right eye and needed to know where I was at.The other people at the range I think wanted to use him as the target!He was very careless and I reported him to the range monitor.I am not the type to rat someone out,but he laid his guns down facing me WAY to many times without clearing them.