docone31
06-20-2009, 11:10 PM
While we were a settling down for the night, and the wife was in the other room, I just had to handle my Hawken Wannabe.
I had had some need to strike twice shots lately.
I picked up the Hawken Wannabe, pulled back the hammer, and ran my fingernail on the lip of the nipple.
It is beginning to be flowered! Just a little, all around the strike area of the cap.
Hah! That just might explain the need to strike twice for one shot! The first strike, the cap would go lower on the nipple, the second would ignite the charge. The cap had a visible bulge!
Probably, tomorrow, I will chuck the nipple threads in my Foredom Handpiece and spin the lip down a little.
That sure did not take long! Maybe 50 shots. I was firing CCI Magnum caps, and Remington #11 caps.
I got nipple flare!!!
I had had some need to strike twice shots lately.
I picked up the Hawken Wannabe, pulled back the hammer, and ran my fingernail on the lip of the nipple.
It is beginning to be flowered! Just a little, all around the strike area of the cap.
Hah! That just might explain the need to strike twice for one shot! The first strike, the cap would go lower on the nipple, the second would ignite the charge. The cap had a visible bulge!
Probably, tomorrow, I will chuck the nipple threads in my Foredom Handpiece and spin the lip down a little.
That sure did not take long! Maybe 50 shots. I was firing CCI Magnum caps, and Remington #11 caps.
I got nipple flare!!!