Originally Posted by
Eggman
And you're absolutely, possitividesly, unequivocally, most certainly, profoundly, dirty dog sure you wont shove a live cartridge on top of a burning ember?!?!!?!
The embers, if any, would be in the barrel, wouldn't they? The barrel is sealed by the next bullet, right? When I shot my Sharps, I used to blow down the breech just before loading it. Never had a problem.
Bob Anderson
Ordnance Sergeant
Company C, 1st Michigan Volunteer Infantry
Small Arms Committee
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on.
I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."
- John Wayne in "The Shootist", 1976
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