philnie, one other thing, newbie to newbie. If you do swab, the patch should only be very lightly moist. The first time out I had put some patches in a small Tuperware container and moistened them with windex. Too moist that is. One shot there was a pop, but no boom. Sat there for 30 seconds or so with gun to my shoulder. Then installed a new cap. Shot again. Pop...........(1 second)...........boom. The last trip out, I had just slightly moistened patches, swabbed with a wet patch and then a dry patch. No problem.

On a side note. One thing about the teflon tape I do not like. I have found that it is not easy to get it all out of the breech threads. Of all the steps involved with cleaning, that is biggest pain in the rear for me. I use a 12 ga brass brush, it is tight and even tried putting a patch on it, but just doesn't do that good of a job. Any suggestions by anyone?