stop on ramrod....

[LBAhunter]

Is anyone using one to keep bullet from being pushed into the powder chamber?

 

[deermanok]

Most folks make a witness mark on the ramrod.

 

[toytruck]

The bullet has to be flush with the powder either with a sabot or wad or just the bullet itself. You don't want any gap's in-between!

 

[HC]

He’s using smokeless powder.

 

[toytruck]

He’s using smokeless powder.

So I still want the bullet on the powder.

 

[Dwayne]

He’s using smokeless powder.

Or he is using a flintlock. You definitely do not want to mash your conical into the powder, unless you want a slower locktime.

 

[HC]

This is the smokeless section.

 

[LBAhunter]

This is the smokeless section.

True....

 

[ENCORE50A]

Is anyone using one to keep bullet from being pushed into the powder chamber?

Very few SML's have powder chambers.

 

[michiganmuzzy]

Very few SML's have powder chambers.

I thought that most(all?) break action sml conversions have some amount of powder chamber?

 

[ENCORE50A]

I thought that most(all?) break action sml conversions have some amount of powder chamber?

Most of those which have chambers to worry about are intentional builds with a known charge and bullet, and that the bullet can't enter the chamber.

 

[LBAhunter]

I was wondering if they were some that maybe were using a ramrod stop to seat the bullet to a specific spot. (start of the rifling).You could treat it like a cartridge gun, using powders that filled the chamber maybe 90% or more. Just me thinking....

 

[Matthew323]

Excuse me if this is a stupid question, but how firmly does one seat bore riding bullets, or saboted bullets over smokeless powders?

Just trying to learn something new.

Bruce

 

[Matthew323]

Most of those which have chambers to worry about are intentional builds with a known charge and bullet, and that the bullet can't enter the chamber.

Aren't the chambers smaller in diameter than the bore/bullet?

In a properly designed Henry/Manton/Nock flint breech plug, the anti-chamber must be smaller in diameter by a good bit in order not to have a cleaning jag get stuck in it. For example, a .45 caliber bore with a groove diameter of 0.482" (0.016" deep grooves) would usually have an anti-chamber measuring about 0.3125" in diameter. The mouth of the powder chamber would then be countersunk/beveled so that it matched the groove diameter of the barrel.

The same principal would be true for a percussion patent breech plug.

 

[ENCORE50A]

Excuse me if this is a stupid question, but how firmly does one seat bore riding bullets, or saboted bullets over smokeless powders?

Just trying to learn something new.

Bruce

Seat it secure. Two hands at times, other times a single hand with a "thump".
I'd have to go back and look but, I believe when I did the force testing I seated bullets at 30# using a force gauge.

Aren't the chambers smaller in diameter than the bore/bullet?

It would depend on the size of the original chamber. I believe there's some information over on Hank's.

 

[Carsyn.22]

Yes There is a limited amount of info on Hanks, I had the same thought and that was the only place I found anyone talking about it, unfortunately the guys doing are no longer posting there, I'm not sure what happened to them.