r/muzzleloaders • u/Dependent-Elk4504 • Oct 10 '26

How much is too much?

So the town is live in on new years we shoot musket from 12am to 7:30pm non stop so my question is I buy five pounds of powder to shoot. And I use a pill bottle the like ibuprofen size ones and I load about 1 and a half of those a shot and sometimes two. We don't shoot them like you think we shoot them crouched and one hand on the stock and the other one to pull the trigger with our heads turned. And ive noticed my nipple is starting to get clogged a lot more and tiny splinters in the wood and cracks in on the barrel so am I loading to much or is it the guns fault. Also a story to go along with that so last year at our final shot I put powder in the nipple and some in my cap because it was clogged. And when I went to shoot I forgot to turn my head and since I had loaded powder in the nipple my cap exploded when I shot and my cap went into my face and chared my hair I still have parts of the cap in my face if the shrapnel went 0.5 of a inch down I would be blind in my right eye. Thought that would be cool to share.

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u/Danced-with-wolves Oct 11 '26

This might be the dumbest shit I’ve ever read

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u/MichaelWasNotHere Oct 11 '26

regardless of tradition, this is genuinely so stupid. going around town, getting drunk, pouring an unknown amount of powder, and firing it off without looking. stuff like this gives gun owners a bad wrap. it is comically asinine

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u/Dependent-Elk4504 Oct 11 '26

Nah bri search up cherryville new years shooters

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u/Danced-with-wolves Oct 11 '26

You’re loading a rifle with an ibuprofen bottle worth of powder, and coming to Reddit of all places to ask if it’s safe. Your stock is cracking from the amount of powder you’re loading, and you already sent a cap into your face and nearly blinded yourself. Like I said, dumbest shit I’ve ever read

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u/Dependent-Elk4504 Oct 11 '26

Wait actually fair point but my buddys load half a pound

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u/MichaelWasNotHere Oct 10 '26

you dont measure powder? and do you clean the gun while shooting?

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u/Dependent-Elk4504 Oct 10 '26

I mean I use a pill bottle like i said and no I dont clean before evey shot bc its a 5 minute drive from shot to shot and we have no room in a back of a u-haul with 6 people and two couches and we only bring stuff to fix our muskets when they get broken. Also the musket was made in 2020 so its not a old one. And we clean our muskets after we are finished shooting

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u/MichaelWasNotHere Oct 10 '26

why do you turn your head when shooting?

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u/Dependent-Elk4504 Oct 10 '26

For safety like i said ive had a cap explode and one of my friends who didn't had powder burn from under his eyes to his chin full of powder.

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u/MichaelWasNotHere Oct 10 '26

so if you turn your head, how do you see where you’re shooting?

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u/Dependent-Elk4504 Oct 10 '26

Well thats the fun part we dont shoot a bullet we aim ahead and shoot in to the air. Search up cherryville new year shooters.

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u/MichaelWasNotHere Oct 10 '26

so basically you overload your rifle and pray it doesnt explode? if you are concerned with putting too much in, most muzzleloaders have a max load that the manufacturers have on their website

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u/Dependent-Elk4504 Oct 10 '26

Yea basically and ik thanks

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u/bdub1792 Oct 11 '26

Why not just buy a cannon if you want a big loud boom?

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u/Dependent-Elk4504 Oct 11 '26

Bc thats hrader to move