Thompson Center Northwest Explorer (beating the dead horse)

[jbeaumont21]

Wow Dan! That's crazy how those things tumbled.   Just tell the wife that lead helps tenderize and marinate the meat.  Besides, lead is a common mineral found in everything water, food etc.  

[Blsum]

Here's a question for you. What kind of powder where you using when the bullets where tumbling. We had the same issue with the Hornady sst bullets. Both me and my buddy where shooting the same gun's, bullet, and caps. The only difference is I was using the 777 pellets and he was using the 777 loose. My gun would tumble and his wouldn't. We figured out that because the pellets where designed to be used with 209 ignition, they where causing inconsistent pressures. To keep it short we stopped using the pellets and have never had a problem since. 

[Dirty Mike]

I have a knight ill trade ya

[kerrdog]

Hey Blsum,

I was shooting 100 grains of pyrodex with MMP hp24 sabots.  The sabots that came with the Barnes TMZs were hard to load, so I tried I ordered some that were slightly thinner.  I makes me wonder if they would have flown straighter with the tighter sabot.  I've read that the NW explorer does not shoot sabots well, and I'm now a believer.  Next I'm going to compare the powerbelts with some TC maxi balls.  And I'm seriously considering purchasing a CVA Elkhorn Pro sometime in the future. But there's many other things on the wish list before that.

[kerrdog]

Sup Beaumont,

I passed your info about lead along to my wife.  I'm not sure she's buying it!
Of course I have to kill something before it will be an issue.

[jbeaumont21]

Hey I got some musket caps today and for some reason they don't work well with the musket nipple I bought.  I got the caps from fishermans today, some German company makes them. They don't dont snug down tight like the CCI's and I had to fire the hammer off 3 times before the cap went off.  Either that nipple wont work with my Thompson Hawkins or I need different caps??

[SkookumHntr]

If its the caps in the red can its not the caps! Those are the good ones!

[kerrdog]

I thought I heard you "cappin" in your garage!

[Blsum]

definitely not the caps. My guess is its a bad hammer spring.    Like Masonctyhitman said. he has a Knight he will trade you if your interested. I've shot his guns and we have never had any problems with any of them. I've heard that the northwest doesn't shoot sabots good as well. I'd bet that it shoots conicals great. But if the wife isn't buying it. Then its a mute point.

Another question for you. Do you use bore butter on your gun between shots. I know guys who couldn't hardly load the barnes bullets. They where taking a couple of shots and then cleaning. I've found if you swab the bore with a patch with a little bore butter on it. Then flip and repeat. Then use a dry patch, flip and repeat. It cleans the barrel and leaves a little lube to make it easier to load.