A Quandary for Speculation and Contemplation .....

[Lefty Dude]

 

[Professor Marvel]

WHAT?  Lefty, are you sayn there is suppose to be POWDER in there!!!  D'you know how dangerous that could be!!  REAL ........
Gun Powder.  I'd never a thunkit.

I may actually try that one day 

Coffinmaker

Ah My Dear Coffinmaker -

I have tried baking powder and face powder, but they did not work out so well ...

you know your posts have become a LOT of fun to read since retirement...

yhs
prof (tired) marvel

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

Try talcum powder.  I would also smooth out the action. No need for an expensive action slickerin' job.

[Lefty Dude]

We chronograph that load and it is one step slower than a spit ball shot from a soda straw, which by the way was 79fps. 

[Coffinmaker]

Lefty,
Obviously, your soda straw was too short.   I'd suggest trying McDonalds Milkshake straws.   Very shallow rifling. 
Also, Chamber pressure.  Key item here.  Ya gotta really puff out yer cheeks to get sufficient chamber pressure.
Of course, you could try the gamer method where someone walks up from behind and smacks both cheeks as
yer about to let er fly

Perfesser Marvel,
Tanks.  I think I use to post to clinical.  Just the facts mam, just the facts.  Seems little tips and trix seem ....... more fun
when included wid a little humor, as it were 

Coffinmaker

[Professor Marvel]

Perfesser Marvel,
Tanks.  I think I use to post to clinical.  Just the facts mam, just the facts.  Seems little tips and trix seem ....... more fun
when included wid a little humor, as it were  

Coffinmaker

Ah My Dear Coffinmaker -

your posts have always been interesting, and for the excellent technical content,  they have been oft' saved to the giant black hole that is my local data farm.

But humor is great fun too, and provides the added benefit of beneficial textual intercourse and the opportunity to babble endlessly for no apparent reason  a bit of friendly chitchat ... :-)

I had noticed from various other places that you too were fond of the snubbies, but until now I had no idea that you have essentially concentrated entirely on the short barrels for your main match pistols - I am both intrigued and impressed, and I will be following your missives with new enthusiasm. I have always admired the short barreled "shopkeepers" and Webley Manstoppers'
so the C&B snubbies offer me a method to pretend I have a real one play without  breaking the bank :-)

yhs
prof marvel

[Coffinmaker]

Professor Marvel,

I currently shoot five different sets of Snubbies and have two sets of "barrels" I can swap onto two other pair of guns for the option of seven pair of Snubbies.

After tripping over a large log in the night, and falling down the deep, dark, bottomless pit of the DARK SIDE, as I acquired "sets" of Cap Guns I just couldn't stop myself from attacking em wid da HACKSAW.  Seem'd to me, the Snubbie just has superb balance.  Plus, not
everybody and their brother was shooting a pair.  Everybody goes ...... wad dat??  You make it??  How can you hit anything (clean match).
So almost everything percussion I have has been chopped, channeled, lowered and frenched tail lights.

I'll try to get a "groupie" of em and have a friend post em.  I don't post photos very well (not at all).  Short barrel guns are a hoot to play wid!! 

Coffinmaker