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Originally Posted by bejay
are you sure you remembered to load the balls on that last cylinder?
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Originally Posted by CoyoteJoe on The Muzzleloading Forum
One can only speculate on these things but I really don't see how a cap could develop enough pressure to drive a ball out of the cylinder and through the bore without also expelling the wad....
...I once thought I'd get rid of some T7 powder by making up blank loads for a .45 Colt cartridge gun. It didn't work. The primer simply blew the T7 and wad out of the barrel like a load of tiny birdshot and the only sound was the pop of the primer. T7 needs resistance to build up pressure to burn properly.
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After a lot of consideration I've come to the conclusion that I must have forgotten to load the balls and then fired off all of the chambers with only powder and over powder cards.
There's really no other explanation considering that three cylinders only popped which I thought were squibs, and 3 cylinders didn't fire off at all probably due to lack of compression.
If the balls were loaded as I thought then I believe that the powder would have fired just like all of the other full cylinders did.
It was so odd that I didn't want to even consider that in my haste to load before my predetermined time to leave the range to go somewhere, that I must have rushed and left out loading the balls.
It's hard to admit but it's not as bad as dry balling the entire cylinder 6 times in a row and then having to remove each one I guess.
And once I put the over powder cards in each chamber, I must have had a senior moment and installed the cylinder without the balls in it.
That's the 1st time that ever happened to me. But if that's what did happen, then just admitting the possibility helps to insure that it won't happen again.
And what happened is what I really wanted to know.
I probably shouldn't have even mentioned the topic, but maybe posting about it has helped me to figure it out.
I wanted some answers and that's the best that I can come up with.
It's better than blaming it all on the powder.
Thanks for everyone's input which helped me to ponder about it long and hard enough to come up with this explanation.