Originally Posted by
buckfever37
Thanks. Did you ever try their new breech plug? The way I'm looking at it is the new plug should improve things even I go back to triple 7. My red jackets and primers gets super dirty with triple seven. So if the new plug reduces blowback than it should help.
Yes, I have the new breech plug both the FPJ and the experimental NFPJ.
The Big Horn is an excellent rifle it just was never designed to shoot BH. If you wander over to the Western Powders internet site, they will provide you with a lot of additional information about where the powder should be use and where it should not.
I personally could shoot BH if there wasn't anything else available but each time you shoot I would wonder if this were going to be the time... I did a lot of testing with both FPJ and NFPJ and certainly the FPJ is probably the safer of the two ignitions forms.
These jackets were shot with BH and a vented plug... take a close look at some of the primers...
