Caps: Percussion-type traditional muzzleloaders ... a safe direction for 60 seconds in the event that it does not fire. Black powder is highly fouling and it may become difficult to load a ball ...

1. Don’t smoke around the black powder or your rifle. 2. Mark your ramrod to show where it will sit at the muzzle when the gun is loaded. This way you can be sure your load is seated correctly; you ...

Press a percussion cap onto the nipple of each unloaded chamber without loading any powder or bullets. Reinstall the cylinder and fire all five caps downrange. This cap-only round blows out any ...

After placing a percussion firing cap under each hammer ... but he has killed plenty of birds with the black-powder shotgun. He has filled his game bag with a limit of chukars on at least one ...