Knight Wolverine Stainless

[cayuga]

I have a Knight Wolverine with a stainless 22 inch barrel. There is a Traditions 1x32mm scope on it with quick release rings by Traditions. I was having trigger problems, so I downloaded Knights manual and attempted to fix my problem. Well I am happy to say the fix was good. Who ever owned this rifle abused it. I purchased it cheap, and I could tell they played gun smith with it, as a lot of things were wrong with it. But I got it back to almost normal.

One thing that happened today has never happened before. The rifle has a #11 cap technology, which is fine by me. I never saw the need for them 209 primers all that much. The load was 85 grains of Triple Seven 2f, and a 250 grain .452 XTP in a MMP HPH-24 sabot.

I had shot and something did not sound right. So when I cocked the rifle to look at the nipple area I got a heck of a surprise.

The nipple split off even to the face of the breech plug. I have never had that happen before. The hammer of course held the nipple in place and no harm no foul as they say, but this really was strange. Good thing I had other breech plugs and nipples so I changed over to a new set up and kept on shooting.

I was only shooting at 50 yards since it is a 1x scope. But overall I wanted to see how the 250 grain XTP did in this rifle.

I was swabbing with spit every other shot. And to end the day I left the rifle fouled and for a third shot took a poke at the little green square to the side of the bull.

I am guessing this is a 50 yards tree stand rifle for sure in my woods. That 85 grains of Triple Seven 2f and that 250 grain XTP has a pretty good bark to it. Should be all that is needed.

 

[rjhans53]

Dave, so the threaded part of the nipple stayed in the breech plug? I don't know if I even ever heard of such a thing. How ever you were probably pretty well safe anyway as the flash hole of the nipple was still in the plug. Or at least I assume it was from the pics

 

[cayuga]

Yes the threaded part stayed in the breech plug. The noise it made is hard to explain. Almost like a second boom snap. But the hammer held the loose part of the nipple against the breech plug, so I was safe.

Just think.. what if I were out somewhere hunting, and only took the one breech plug and nipple. Over all it is hard to beat a Knight Wolverine in my book. They are a tuff little rifle that just flat out shoots.

 

[LeadHead]

:shock: Thank Goodness You were and are OK that could have been a bad sitchuation right there ! :shock:

But on a good NOTE those Wolverines are just flat out Shooters AWESOME ! :yeah: :yeah:

I love mine I have a SS .45cal witch is just about my Favorite gun to shoot and Hunt with !
And my .50 cal. I Hated to but just to many , So I listed it FS on the Classifieds and it is a Awesome shooter as well , Conicals and Saboted Bullets !

 

[sabotloader]

cayuga

Dave I have had this happen twice and I threw the third one away. All of then were the type of nipple that has a hollowed area up to the flash hole. I can remember the brand name. Now I only use nipples that are solid to the base.

I believe the nipple suffers some stress right at the point where the walls are the thinnest at the top of the cavity..

 

[cayuga]

This was the breech plug and nipple that came with the rifle. You can bet the next one will be a stainless steel hot shot nipple.

 

[frontier gander]

Ouch! That really could have ruined your day. Glad everything worked out okay, and even better, it shoots good too!