Roskoe

Great response thank you...

What might your thoughts be about escaping gases moving by the breech plug and out across a few of the threads? I am not concerned about the breech plug as I am the the threaded area that the breech plug screws into. Inspection of this area would be very difficult.I have this personal thing to stop these gases at the face of the BP. After reading the reports on the Savage blow-up and the suggested reasoning for the blow up, that area does concern me. But again I can not even imagine the number of rounds that would take at BP or even with Sub powders.

One thing that adds to my concern a little bit - TC will longer sale breech plug replacements for their Hawkins - they must be sent in for replacement so TC can make sure they are sealed. They have the same breech plug face and barrel face. The first one I built before TC clamped down did leak a little and I had to replace the breech plug with a new one and achieve that seal.

Somehow this all make sense my head but I probably am not presenting it correctly.