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Saturday, October 12, 2013

Failure to feed.

In the seventeen hundreds this was a bit more of a problem!







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3 comments:

  1. Yeah, that could be a 'bit' of a problem...

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  2. At least if the ball's not stuck too tight, you can use a priming charge (or percussion) to blow it out the end of the barrel. Ball pullers are sometimes problematic.

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  3. If that's the ball I'm thinking of, it was halfway down the bore -- any charge that would have cleared would be risking a breach.

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