T/C White Mountain Carbine Misfires

[sman]

   Hi everyone, my friend has a T/C WMC.  He is having problems with misfires.  He cleans the gun with hot water and runs a bore butter patch afterwards.  He has a musket nipple on the gun.  Yesterday we went hunting and when we were done 2 hrs later the gun would not fire, only the cap.  We took the nipple out and there was no powder in sight.  We placed a very small amount of powder in the nipple hole, replaced the nipple, and the gun fired. 
     When the powder charge is poured down the barrel, is there a way to get the powder to go out the the flash tube where the nipple is? 

  Thanks for any tips or advice,
                    Steve

[quickdtoo]

Best advice is patch out the bore to remove any excess lube or oil, then pop a couple caps before loading it to clear the ignition path of anything that will impede ignition. I always pour the powder, then give the barrel a couple good whacks with my palm to settle the powder in the breech. I also store all my guns muzzle down to prevent oil/lube from collecting in the breech during storage, it also keeps oil for saturating a wood stock.

Tim

[surveyor47]

If you tilt the barrel down in the direction of the flashole and tap the butt, powder should flow down next to the flashole.  This makes a difference when using Pyrodex, which has a severe tendency to hangfire. Pyroxed Select is much better than Pyrodex RS in that regard.  Bore Butter really gums up the works when it comes to firing.  Try Ballistol and go easy on the bullet lube.

[mspaci]

I still take my WMC out a few times per season, never had a misfire. Just as Tim said, clean barrel, a few caps, tap a few times, & I like real black powder. I have a peep & fiber front site & its a great 75 yard brush gun. On 50 yard range it stacks them touching.  Mike

[Foggy]

As said above run a patch in and out before you load.I pick the Nipple, After i pour in my powder,I always tap the butt on the ground .Not hard juat a tap. Load projectile of choice(my case a patched round ball). pick the nipple again. Cap Half cock and hunt,or cock and fire. I always Picke the nipple or touchhole.

JMHO
Foggy