One thing I forgot to mention in this report. As noted, I was shooting Triple Seven FFG and using standard precussion caps. I had no ignition problems at all over the course of those 25 shots. As is my standard practice, I swabbed the bore with both sides of one alcohol patch between each shot. There was not even the slightest sign of the dreaded crud ring (zero/zip/nada). I wonder if that's because of precussion caps vs. 209 primers?