Lots of hang fires?

[ImARugerFan]

I have an NEF sidekick and it has always seemed to hang fire a bit. Any suggestions? I shot 6 times sighting in a scope yesterday and had one misfire, one good clean fire, and 4 slight hang fires. Not very long, just a fraction of a second, but enough that I can easily tell it happened. The primer I used on the one shot that didn't go had been setting loose in my muzz tackle box and had a little corrosion on it. I blame the mis fire on the primer, but all the hang fires came from nice fresh primers. I thoroughly cleaned everything before I put it away last season, paying special attention to the hole in the breech plug. I'm using winchester 209s, 2 triple seven pellets, and a power belt. It was snowing out yesterday, and even though I was shooting off a porch some snow was undoubtedly getting on the gun and stuff. I tried to keep it as dry as possible. Could this have influenced the problem too? Any suggestions?

 

[scrat]

Yes and no. Without being there its hard to say. However if you are using pellets. One thing for sure you need to make sure the black side is facing down. Most pellets will have a dark black side this is the side that needs to be facing down. As it is an accelerant to ignite the powder.

 

[ImARugerFan]

Wow I honestly had no idea about this. I will certainly check this out and load them that way from now on. I have never paid attention to which direction I load them, so that could certainly be an issue. They make no mention of it on their site that I can find either.

 

[madcratebuilder]

Most pellets will have a dark black side this is the side that needs to be facing down. As it is an accelerant to ignite the powder.

Thanks scrat, I doubt I"ll ever use pellets but I did learn something new this day.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Any and all caplocks, inline or traditional, should have two caps (or primers) busted on an empty chamber before loading, to fully blow out and dry the system. This has always worked for me, and never had an ignition problem with the caplock SxS, the inline, or my cap-n-ball revolvers.

LD

 

[ImARugerFan]

Another good idea. I'll do this before I load up saturday.

 

[Wildfire]

Hang Fire.

Hey :
I seem to always go against the grain here.
Pellets are harder to ignite to start with. Go to loose powder and the problem will likely go away. Keep using the pellets and that nice buck may be the next thing to go away.

I use air to blow out my breech plugs and have never had to fire a cap or primer to clean out a nipple yet..
Also , try the Remington 209 ML primers and you may see a difference. {unless you are using an open breech gun.} They will not always toos enough flame for an open breech .

 

[arcticap]

I thought that it was only the Pyrodex pellets that had a thin coating of black powder on one side.

 

[110Redmen]

Any possibility the flash channel is too deep?

 

[pbearperry]

Years ago I switched from black powder to Pyrodex like many others.A few years ago I went back to BP because of hangfires and I have not had one since.I have no experience with inlines only front stuffers.I will only go back to modern stuff if I can no longer get BP.

 

[ImARugerFan]

For the record I'm using triple seven pellets, not pyrodex. I looked at the 777 and didn't notice a difference on either end of the pellet. Maybe I should sprinkle a few grains of BP in before loading the pellets? I only use this thing one day a year, we have a very limited season here in NY.

I don't know what you mean about the flash channel being too deep. I don't know what that means. It's a NEF muzzleloader.\

I've been told over on graybeard forums that this gun does not work well with 777. Wish I knew that before I bought a box of it. Figured it would last me a lifetime considering I rarely shoot the gun. I'm going to just try some hot primers for this season and see how it goes.

 

[teddy52food]

Is there any place in central Mn. that sells Goex or Swiss BP?