kBob
Member
Was just looking at an article by Gary James (other than Mike he seems the only one that gets us) and was looking at his illustrations. He commented that the Linen cased ammo fit the chamber so that it did not protrude to be cut off. The photo of a linen cartridge he had with the article seemed to show a hole in the base of the linen cartridge like those found on Maynards, smiths, bursides and whatever out side primed cartridge firing carbine.
The thing that struck me was that the breech had a spout for the transmission of the primer flash and blast to the center of the Sharpes cartridge, but this spout wsa in a largish hole in the breech.
This would appear to leave a large air space in the Sharpes breech when firing.
Given the importance folks put on leaving no airspace in a muzzle loader when loading, how come the Sharpes did not blow up?
Am I missing something?
-kBob
The thing that struck me was that the breech had a spout for the transmission of the primer flash and blast to the center of the Sharpes cartridge, but this spout wsa in a largish hole in the breech.
This would appear to leave a large air space in the Sharpes breech when firing.
Given the importance folks put on leaving no airspace in a muzzle loader when loading, how come the Sharpes did not blow up?
Am I missing something?
-kBob