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[tacfoley]

Disaster at the range today.
Fired one shot & the nipple broke in two leaving half still in the barrel.
Staff at the gun shop at the range tried to extract the other half of the broken nipple in there workshop,managed to unscrew it a bit but its still in there.
Didn't want to try & force it out myself so dropped it off at Norman Clark's Gun Smiths in Rugby.
Had to leave it with them as they were busy. Said it might be a five minute job or take an hour to sort, and that they would fit it in with there other jobs in the next week or two.
I am hoping they take pity on me & sort it in a few days.
I own several black powder firearms, taken the nipples off hundreds of times, never had anything like this before. Think it must have been a faulty nipple to break like that.
The Gun Smith said he has seen it before & says its caused by people dry firing the gun in the shop?
Spoken to Kranks they are sending me a couple of replacement nipples & I am waiting to hear back from the Manager.

Very frustrated shooter!!!!

Now you'll keep a broken screw/bolt remover in your possibles bag, right?

It usually takes less time to remove a broken nipple than it does to read what I've just written.

tac