Hey Greyhawk
Glad to se your properly concerned
about the care and feeding of yer Balls
Greasy or not, if ya don't pay attention to yer Balls it can get to be a real >>>>> Cock Up
, er problem. Yes it can (Can is metal container fer yer Balls
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Unfortunately, there are more than just a few "Old Wives Tails" out there.
And one must be particularly careful to take care of those Wives Tails
Here is the basis of the problem. Way back inna Wabac (Sherman and the Perfesser), a fella was standing around wid a Cap Gun. Another fella asked him how to shoot that contraption
We can just about guess, the fella with the contraption really didn't know how either. Colt didn't provide (a what to do now that it's out of the box book) anymore than Uberti or Pietta do
So we start the whole ball rolling with the blind leading the blind. Cap Guns were then and are now a learning experience. In many cases, Trial and Error. Whether the way a person gets their guns to work is correct or not, that method becomes "right" and is repeated as gospel. Bunch of time down the road, it gets real blurry, whom said what to whom and was it actually "right." So .... now we have a bunch of information, a goodly portion of which is crap, but has been repeated as gospel so long .. it must be right.
My suggestion is to do as I did when I started shooting Cap Guns. I asked questions of EVER Cap Gun shooter I could find. I asked what they did, and then Why they did that. If they couldn't explain "why" it means they didn't know any more than I did (ignore em). Then I read everything I could find on the subject. Some of that was crap too. Then I went shooting and tried all that I'd learned. Some of it even worked. I've saved and husbanded the things that work. I repeat (Parrot) nothing I hear or read until I do it myself and see if it works.
The bottom line here, Cap Guns are FUN. Much more interesting than Suppository Shooters. Cap Guns make ya really appreciate a good match and treasure a clean match. Let's get out there and SHOOT. If the Snow would just melt!!!