What gives?

[shiftyer1]

It's 1865, I own an 1858 Remington and I've fired 2 shots killing my rabbit. Do I have to waste my remaining shots just so I can clean my handgun?

Ok I lied, it's 2015 and I've just used 2 shots to kill a sick possum. Do I need to waste my remaining shots to clean my gun?

 

[rcmodel]

In 1865 you would.
Because caps were corrosive potassium chlorate back then.

Now they are not.

You could run a oiled patch down the two fired chambers, and the bore, and then shoot the other 4 and clean it good then!!

And you could use a shovel to kill the possum next time and not have to worry about it.

rc

 

[shiftyer1]

I also could have used the 22 next to the door, but I have limited experience shooting black powder and thought it was a good time to see how it performed on something other than cans and boards.

 

[44 Dave]

Pull the cylinder wipe out the 2 chambers, then with whale oil- now bp solvent, and clean the barrel as always.

 

[Crawdad1]

Just use BP solvent (I use isopropyl alcohol) to clean the used chambers and barrel and oil. I hunt with mine all the time and that's what I do.

 

[kBob]

Next time shoot the possum six times.

-kBob

 

[goldpelican]

Next time shoot the possum six times.

 

[ironworkerwill]

I dispatched one of the smilin' furballs with a broken hoe handle once. It was a lot harder than I initially thought it should of been. I understand why it took 2 shots.

 

[noelf2]

Why did it need killing?

 

[4v50 Gary]

He says it was sick. It was an act of mercy.

 

[Ephraim Kibbey]

Two .44 slugs, was it a BIG possum?

 

[Crawdad1]

They're no bigger than a groundhog and my 1860 Colt Army really splatters them.

 

[ZVP]

How long do you keep your revolver loaded?
ZVP

 

[shiftyer1]

Of course it was a BIG possum....i'm in Texas haven't u heard about everything here? lol I missed the first shot, which is why it took 2. I should have taken a picture but the possum looked a lot like a dog with mange.

It had been loaded for 3? months.

 

[ironworkerwill]

the possum looked a lot like a dog with mange.

Are you sure it wasn't that Texas Chupacabra?http://morningmoss.com/chupacabra-caught-in-texas-alive/

 

[Bigdog57]

A few years ago I learned a valuable lesson re. Brother Possum.....
NEVER kill a home invading possum with a sharp Katana in your home. It's very messy and very stinky........ :banghead:
Second time I used a .22 Colibri pointblank to the head. Didn't kill him immediately. Found him under my home dead later.
Using a black powder revolver would have woke the neighbors at zero-dark-thirty, and it would have gotten the house full of stinking smoke.