Muzzle loading tips? Add your own

[jstone]

When your looking down those sights and ready to squeeze the trigger... PRAY the cap goes off. 

[The100Road]

 

Worst feeling ever, When a bull/cow is standing there and it doesnt go off.

[Dirty Mike]

When I first started muzzy I had a lot of miss fires at animals. One time I miss fired right after a reload for a follow up shot.  I removed the nipple and no powder in sight.  After that day  I added a small amount of FFF ( shot FF)  right below the nipple EVERY time I loaded for hunting. I never had a miss fire again.   Good luck,  Mike

what gun were you using?

[rasbo]

practice putting a cap on your gun in times of stress. :chuckle:myself and a friend were hunting and we seen a doe at like 15 feet standing there looking  at us..Brian wanted the doe, so he was trying to put a cap on he kept dropping it,being the good friend that I am I kept reminding him he better hurry,LOL he dropped 4 or 5 caps all the while the doe just stood there.Finnally he got a cap on and dropped the doe.....

[buckhorn2]

Get rid of a wooden ram rod and get a good one I saw one break and it went right into the guys arm.

[rasbo]

Get rid of a wooden ram rod and get a good one I saw one break and it went right into the guys arm.

ouch

[Kowsrule30]

That happened to my buddy while reloading after a shot on a 5 point in the Toutle..... He was bleeding pretty good... Then it was stuck in the barrel and I got it out after about 5 very long mins while he's wrapping up his wrist...... Didn't even need it.... Bull was stone dead when we got to him finally.... Then he broke the stock on our first trip out..... He has that pile with the broken rod and all hanging in the antlers of that bull.... You can still see his blood on it.... 

[MHWASH]

When loading a sidelock, after pouring the powder down the barrel, thump the stock on the floor/ground a few times to help get the powder into the nipple area. I've also turned the nipple side down and thumped the stock with my hand. It may or not help, but in the three seasons I've hutned the late muzzy season, I've never had a missfire. I've hunted over 3 days in the rain and snow and had it go off everytime. I was even using real blackpowder.

[Sabotloader]

When loading a sidelock, after pouring the powder down the barrel, thump the stock on the floor/ground a few times to help get the powder into the nipple area. I've also turned the nipple side down and thumped the stock with my hand. It may or not help, but in the three seasons I've hutned the late muzzy season, I've never had a missfire. I've hunted over 3 days in the rain and snow and had it go off everytime. I was even using real blackpowder.

It really does help...  like you I have it near verticle turn it sideways and tap the opposite side of the lock to get the powder to move out under the nipple.  Also when pouring the powder in I pour about 10 -20 grains then tap - then dump the rest.  If you pour it all in at once you might compact it before you can get it to go sideways...

[unluckyjohn]

I shoot a knight, unscrew the rear 2nd safety and never touch it again. It can cost you an elk.

[TopOfTheFoodChain]

I shoot a knight, unscrew the rear 2nd safety and never touch it again. It can cost you an elk.

Yup, cost a friend his first chance at a mule deer two years ago. He is still crying because he later shot one much smaller 

[50CalJim]

Learned my lesson Monday that it might be a good idea to have an extra Ramrod incase you break one in half like I did. Its kinda hard to shoot when the Bullet is only 5" down the barrell. 

[jackmaster]

always carry a nipple wrench and a small piece of wire that will fit through the nipple and the breech

[TopOfTheFoodChain]

Never fire it off on New Year's Eve and forget to clean it until summer  I really liked that gun.

[superdown]

  just marking this one