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    I fired one of these a bloke had at the range once. I only remember it vaguely but at some point remember him hammering part of the gun with a wooden mallet between firings. Heaven knows what exactly, I cant precisely remember but I only had the one shot and left it at that

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    It was either a muzzle loader and he was ramming the charge, or it was a snider and he was tapping the breechblock to get a stuck case out. They have no primary extraction.
    Bet you had fun shooting it though.

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    Saw a few beautiful double-rifles in Africa, couple of years ago. Heaps disappeared from Zim, when Rob the-nob started disarming the white population. Browning hi-powers are rife over there though, nearly put one in my pocket, on one hilarious occasion

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    Saw a few beautiful double-rifles in Africa, couple of years ago. Heaps disappeared from Zim, when Rob the-nob disarmed the white population. 9mm Browning hi-powers are rife over there though, nearly put one in my pocket, on one hilarious occasion

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marty Henry View Post
    It was either a muzzle loader and he was ramming the charge, or it was a snider and he was tapping the breechblock to get a stuck case out. They have no primary extraction.
    Bet you had fun shooting it though.
    Might have been the second option then mate, it was definitely a breech loader. Yes it was a nice shooter, not too bad recoil either.

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    I use a post at the range to bump the breech block rearward.The chamber gets sticky after a couple of shots.

    If there is no one around I use the heel of my boot.
    "Sixty percent of the time,it works every time"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marty Henry View Post
    It was either a muzzle loader and he was ramming the charge, or it was a snider and he was tapping the breechblock to get a stuck case out. They have no primary extraction.
    Bet you had fun shooting it though.
    Or he was tapping the end of the cartridge to get it into the chamber, I’m an expert at it!!
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    Boom, cough,cough,cough

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    Quote Originally Posted by norsk View Post
    I use a post at the range to bump the breech block rearward.The chamber gets sticky after a couple of shots.

    If there is no one around I use the heel of my boot.
    So do I, and I've got a wooden dowel cut at an angle for getting tighties in, the come out much easier after firing funnily enough.
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    Actually that rings a bell, and for the record the case necks looked like they had some splits as well. I was pretty young so figured the fella knew what he was doing,

 

 

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