Averting disaster.

What sort of arrangement are you using enabling the use of standard primers?

Just curious.................& you are right on relative to always paying attention....once saw a minty pre model 10 S&W wind up with two stuck rounds in the bbl......split the forcing cone but luckily did not blow.

Glad you caught it before the kaboom!

Did that with my Arisaka, last year. inherited the ammo, and some of the primers must've gotton polluted from WD40, because some just went ''pop'', and propelled powder and bullet to stick in the bore...without igniting the powder!

Hey Patocazador ~
I had a similar experience several days ago, for different reasons. Was shootin' BP and tried a "grease cookie" experiment. Proper placement of the "cookie" is over the powder, on top of a bee's wax barrier. In this case, a rice cigarette paper soaked w/bee's wax. Thin card wad under the bullet goes over it all.

Well, near as I can figure, the barrier musta ruptured, during bullet seating, and the "cookie" oozed into the BP and put the fire out. The small pistol primer, all by itself, had enuff horsepower to push the bullet haffway into the forcin' cone and lock up the cylinder. Like you, I pushed it back into the cylinder.

So this is an unintended consequence of using "primer capsules"...squib loads!

Sorry I couldn't have given ya a heads up before the fact...didn't know it was a problem.

Kindest Regards,
Doak

doak where did you come up with that grease cookie combo? What type or mix of lube are you using? YOUR DANG LUCKY that powder didn't delay ignite would not been a pretty picture! Card under powder tight fit then a cookie then card on top,,, and you need to compress the powder with the first card to the proper height so when your grease cookie and bullet under card are at the proper height to seat your bullet to the proper length you need.
BULLET LUBES if in a cookie in a revolver you should put a little more bees wax in the mix to bring up the melting temp because those cylinders get warm.

Hey boommer ~
Thanks fer the help. I do all that stuff ya said for my Sharps .50 - 2.5''. Except, the cookie, w/a barrier under it, very definitely goes atop the powder. Ya want the burning powder to vaporize the cookie lube, into the BP residue, thru-out the entire bore, especially the throat, where hard caking prevents chambering the next round. A card between the cookie & powder insulates the cookie enuff that it doesn't vaporize into the residue. I didn't figure this out myself. It comes from the best shooters, outa the best books on the subject. There hasta be a barrier between the cookie & powder...it just needs to be one that disintegrates instantly upon firing. I use this process in the Sharps, & it works extremely well.

So, thawt I'd try a variation of it in the ROA. Turns out it's easy to apply too much pressure to the loading lever, unlike having an adjustable bullet seating die in a press, that stops pushing the bullet beyond a certain point. And I prolly used too thick a cookie. It was an experiment, after all. I did learn tho, to not do that any more.

1 part bee's wax, 2 parts jojoba, has been workin' well in the Sharps. Not so much, in the ROA. :-D

Good point about the cylinder gettin' warm!

I don't do the Blackhorn thing, just too hard to ignite even in a 209 primed inline rifle.

Patocazador,
Well, 2 misfires is 2 too many! It breaks the trust in the system...'n' that can worry-wear ya down. There's gotta be sumpin we can do to ensure reliability w/this dern Blackhorn in the ROA.

Maybe tamp a few flakes(start w/2 flakes, & work up) o' Bullseye, Red Dot, or Unique into the front o' the flash hole of the capsule, push 'em allaway back to the primer. Turn a small pistol/rifle primer into a large one? Figure out a way to test the tamp before actually loading up a chamber w/powder & bullet. Maybe shoot X-ring rubber bullets as a gauge of effect?

Guess I gotta get some o' this Blackhorn & try out some ideas.

Until this experiment w/a "cookie", ain't never had a capsule misfire w/BP, not that that's any help. :-D