I would imagine if added correctly to high quality steel and IF there is enough metal to remove, it can be safe. Some are way over built from the start and some aren't. In most cases the sabot is gunna blow first anyway but i wouldn't want to test that theory.

But in Doc's world - he did not shoot sabots he shot artillery lead so the BP better be strong...

Art.... totally agree...

Whites were way over built to start so they would likely be fine IMO.

Grouse,
I got a few muzzleloaders in the safe. Your whole point IMO starting this thread was the try to say Knight and Lehigh are the best. I see your feathers are ruffled. I will post no more to your threads as you already have shown me enough. You find fault in every muzzleloader out there except Knights and praise a muzzleloader that you yourself has not shot, the Mountaineer. My age.......let's just say I have 7yrs till retirement.

I also have clues as to what I am talking about. I speak from products I have used. I shoot as much as I possibly can. I have shot Lehigh 185gr DOA bullets. I know they will shoot. I have also shot 195gr Barnes MZ's and they will shoot too.

GM54-120,
I do love my Green Mtn 54-120 Limited Edition Brush Gun. And yeah I know its basically a Knight! :D

That quoted statement was made by an ignorant shill, trying to create fear amongst the readers of this forum. This same individual made several other false statements afterward. I find it ironic, that i caused these false statements by trying to be humorous. It is as though these shill think that my tinkering around with ventliners will somehow be some kind of competition to Lehigh. That is so absurd, it is laughable.

Stainless is not too soft. Stainless does not need to be hardened. Stainless is not dangerous. What stainless is, is hard. If stainless wasn't so hard, it would be used to make breech plugs and ventliners. It isn't economical to use stainless, is why business' trying to make money don't use it.

I have a hard time knowing if these comments have their roots in a genuine concern for safety or Randy Wakeman style fear mongering.
I am a woodworker and freely admit my knowledge of metalurgy is lacking. I know the pressures on the breech plug are very high but to me the ventliners appear safe in design, (I don't see how the head of a ventliner could ever come through the hole and come back and bite you), much safer than a nipple threaded in from the other side.

ronlaughlin ,

The stainless you are using is soft. You are the one selling products to members for money. Breech plugs vent-liners etc. I have nothing for sale.

Your sending parts to people to use and you have no idea how safe or not safe they are. Just like when you drive down over the hill and shoot a gun out the window of your truck up into the woods in Turkey season. And you wonder why those Turkey hunters are yelling at you. You have no concern of safety at all.

The breech plugs that you sent to MD were horrible. I would not mail **** like that to anyone. I'm surprised he even put them in his gun to tell you the truth.

Everything that i have wrote on this thread is my opinions and mine only. As for the stainless you are using anyone can check and see how good that really is for themselves. Actually a few already have.

Keep trash talking my friend, you will get the attention you need.

I would think you are correct. The problem would be if it erroded and the powder went down into the breech plug. What are the chances of that????? I just dont like taking chances. I think Doc White even shoots smokeless in some of his guns. I would think he is doing things the right way.

What Ron said. A grade 8 stainless steel bolt is much stronger than anything required of muzzleloader breech plug.

falcon, it's not just about hardness. Its gas cutting and fire.