ArcherandShooter
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I'm still fairly new to BP shooting, and I love it, but I'm having a problem I need some help with.
I shoot a TC Hawken caplock rifle, and about every 10th shot or so, I get a misfire. The cap fires, but the main powder charge just sits there. For a while (it is a new-to-me rifle) I was swabbing the barrel after each shot, so not using enough dry patches before re-charging could have been the problem, but now that the barrel is well-seasoned I don't do a full cleaning between each shot.
Any ideas why I'm getting no-fires? Is there a happy medium I should get to between every-shot-cleaning and once-after-a-range-session? Something else going wrong?
If this helps, I'm able to get the main charge to fire by removing the nipple and drizzling a few grains of powder into the hole. After replacing the nipple and placing a new cap, the gun fires OK.
Anyway, thanks for any help and ideas you can offer.
I shoot a TC Hawken caplock rifle, and about every 10th shot or so, I get a misfire. The cap fires, but the main powder charge just sits there. For a while (it is a new-to-me rifle) I was swabbing the barrel after each shot, so not using enough dry patches before re-charging could have been the problem, but now that the barrel is well-seasoned I don't do a full cleaning between each shot.
Any ideas why I'm getting no-fires? Is there a happy medium I should get to between every-shot-cleaning and once-after-a-range-session? Something else going wrong?
If this helps, I'm able to get the main charge to fire by removing the nipple and drizzling a few grains of powder into the hole. After replacing the nipple and placing a new cap, the gun fires OK.
Anyway, thanks for any help and ideas you can offer.