The Glove ... or .....

Coffinmaker · June 24, 2013, 11:25:57 PM

Well. We all know things. But sometimes we forget. I've been shooting Henry rifles for years. With smokeless. Not a problem.
Recently, I started shooting BP in my hand guns, and started loading all brass BP shotgun then switched to Cap Guns. It just seemed "right" when I shoot my 1860s, to shoot ALL 1860s. Just plain KOOL!!!!
Nope. Not cool. HOT. Really HOT!!! When you stuff 18 rounds in a Henry and let er rip, it gets really HOT. You need a glove to carry it off HOT! So why did I forget that? Won't forget it again

Coffinmaker

bluesuit01 · June 25, 2013, 08:16:14 PM

Yep. Even when shooting blanks.

HolliferADollar · June 26, 2013, 01:24:22 PM

If the loading table isn't in the shade, better remember to cover it with a bandana, or it will start out HOT & just get HOTTER!

Holler (who has been there, done that & got the hot fingers to prove it)

pistol1911 · June 27, 2013, 07:09:38 AM

Any chance for a cook off in these hot barrels?

Coffinmaker · June 27, 2013, 04:05:21 PM

Cook Off?? Not that I know of. I've never personally heard of one. Usually to get uncomfortably hot, you run the rifle dry.

Anybody else heard of a Cook Off?

Coffinmaker

Yeso Bill · June 28, 2013, 06:16:37 PM

I've never heard of a cook off either but I have an original 73 carbine that was found in the Guadalupe mountains. The owner of that rifle put enough bullets down the barrel to char the wood in the fore-end next to the barrel. If only that rifle could talk.

harleydavis · July 10, 2013, 10:47:20 AM

I had not shot my Henry in a number of years and yeah, I forgot about that last weekend myself. With my hat on the breech/barrel on the loading table helps but after a 10 round stage, it is just plain dangerous hot. A Henry cook off? Personally I do not see how that could be possible. Even in Civil War reenacting that is rare simply from a hot barrel. In the heat of a battle if a soldier pulls hammer to half cock and removes the spent cap which then introduces oxygen to left over embers, yes. These blanks are actually just straight black powder into a barrel but using metallic cartridges I gotta think it would be quite unusual. I have heard of, but not seen, multiple cartridge explosion in the loading tube when dropping the follower. By using flat nose bullets, even that would seem to be more rare than common. Just my 2 pennies worth.
Regards

PJ Hardtack · July 23, 2013, 10:27:47 AM

A pal has taken to wearing a glove when shooting his Belgian-made 16 ga SxS under lever shotgun.

With just a splinter fore stock, it gets pretty warm with BP during a 6-8 rd string! Like all of us, he has other options, but he regards dealing with this as part of the fun. He goes for 'style points' in his CAS shooting, as befits a published playwright and amateur theatrical director.

Being a wimp, I bought a Stoeger 'Uplander' with beavertail fore stock just for BP after searing my paw with my Ithaca 'Flues' SxS.
Couldn't be bothered with packing a glove, putting it on, taking it off .... Not practical when shooting 'double duellist'.

griswold · July 23, 2013, 12:23:58 PM

I was watching a movie last night with Joel McCray. Nothing monumental however at the end of the big gun fight, McCray fired off 5 rounds of his adversary Colt, after he shot him dead, to prove it was not empty.....AND THEN HANDED THE THING TO THE FELLA NEXT TO HIM BARREL FIRST! THE FELLA HAD NO GLOVES ON.!!!.........amazing how tough these movie screen cowboys are!!!!

Coffinmaker · July 29, 2013, 11:34:09 AM

Ha!! I epitomize the term "WUSSE" without doubt. All my shotguns have a nice Pachmyre pillow on the end. Hot barrels do not excite me. Not a problem when I was just shooting smokeless. Barrels just got warm.
I have now switched to BP and Subs. Barrels get HOT!! So I just ordered a swell barrel wrap from Galco. Considering I shot a dump rifle stage with 8 shotgun ....... money well spent!!!

Coffinmaker