Today was pretty bad Lots of flooding .

I am a firm believer in "write in candidates":s1:

Then we are kind of like the blind men each feeling a different part of the elephant and then voting on what an elephant is like. We each describe a different "primary" problem due to our own point of view. Luckily, I started using BH with my Omega using standard 209 primers. The primary problem for me was the carbon buildup with that first encounter.

Then I started using my Knight LRH and experienced hangfires, misfires. I then realized that the breechplug was a problem and replaced the breechplug with a Lehigh one.

I did experience some issues with a loose fitting bullet, so that can happen too.

Never had a problem with primers. Since I use to use 777, if I had been using 777 primers when I switched, that would have been the "primary" problem.

When you post a poll on the internet, do you expect people just to vote and not write anything, not even why they voted as they did? Well, you have to take the good with the bad on the internet. So as written I still can not vote in the poll because as written, the is not one clear "answer" to vote on. And yes, on the internet, I am going to write a paragraph on why not.

Give me a different question, even if the answers are the same, and I might even vote!

Kids came back from checking the flooding in the pasture. The rain brought a free meal, so I guess it ain't all bad :D

Sweet.....

Oh YEAH!

Today of all days one should feel free to write a paragraph, as we give thanks, and honor, to those who sacrificed everything, so we could.

Yes, i can understand your discomfort with the choices.

My first try using Blackhorn was also in an Omega, and the primer used was what was for sale at the local store. Like you i was lucky and everything worked like a charm. However, never did i experience a delay, or a misfire in that rifle. Luckily, i guess, i noticed the flame channel growing smaller, and smaller. Even when it was so small only a 1/16" drill would cut the carbon, never was there a ignition issue. After shooting Blackhorn a few times through the rifle/breech plug, i was 'sure', the flame channel was 7/64". It was with disbelief when i learned the flame channel was actually 1/8".

Now, these years later, both of us have tried Blackhorn in different rifles. Both of us have read this forum, and others. We have both similar, and varying experiences. We both have read of problems and solutions to those problems. We no longer know just one part of the elephant.

Now... gathering together all your knowledge, and kinda meditating over the issues you know can exist, are you able to answer the poll question by choosing one of those choices as the primary over all issue?

Yes.... No...then...What question could you answer?

"What do you think has been the most common issue creating ignition problems when people first start using BH 209?"

If that were the question, I would answer Breechplug but that would just be a guess from the past posts I have seen on the internet. But at least I would vote!

I suspect that is what you are trying to get to, but as stated, the question doesn't mean that to me

Currently all but one of my friends who shoot use sidelocks and the one who uses BH learned from me after I got it figured out, so the internet (always a poor scientific sampling) is my only source of info.

I think you nailed it txhunter.

Tried using your question as the title; it is too long. Don't know what to change to make it fit. Suggestions?