Ringing Barrels & Chambers

[NKBJ]

Everyone knows that you can ring a chamber.
Everyone knows that you can ring a barrel.

So why didn't the breech loaders of the 1860's, Sharp's, Smith's, Maynard's, etc. ring their chambers when there was air space in the chambers?
Not enough axial length distance for the acceleration of the pressure wave?
But, but... chambers get ringed too. But civil war carbines, nah.
It's just something I've wondered about and never resolved in my own mind.

 

[jinks]

Perhaps black powder develops less pressure than smokeless powder.

 

[Clay Pigeon]

Everyone knows that you can ring a chamber.
Everyone knows that you can ring a barrel.

So why didn't the breech loaders of the 1860's, Sharp's, Smith's, Maynard's, etc. ring their chambers when there was air space in the chambers?
Not enough axial length distance for the acceleration of the pressure wave?
But, but... chambers get ringed too. But civil war carbines, nah.
It's just something I've wondered about and never resolved in my own mind.

You can ring a Black Powder Cartridge Rifle, I have seen Sharps, Highwalls, Lowwalls, levers and others from shooting black incorrectly.

 

[AmmoManAaron]

What makes you think there was airspace in the chambers of the breechloading Civil War era carbines? For the most part, the ones you mention took BP metallic cartridges.

 

[Spike Jones 5 2002]

Everyone knows that you can ring a chamber.
Everyone knows that you can ring a barrel.

So why didn't the breech loaders of the 1860's, Sharp's, Smith's, Maynard's, etc. ring their chambers when there was air space in the chambers?
Not enough axial length distance for the acceleration of the pressure wave?
But, but... chambers get ringed too. But civil war carbines, nah.
It's just something I've wondered about and never resolved in my own mind.

Ok this is a new term to me.

What is meant by "RING"?

 

[russc2542]

Ok this is a new term to me.

What is meant by "RING"?

I had to google it too. Basically, bulging the chamber/barrel but in a circumferential ring rather than a lump to the side. can also be done to brass within a chamber apparently.

In skimming the results, no positive answers to the "why" were to be found.