I used play caps for a while but it destroyed the pistol. EXTREMELY CORROSIVE. Like pouring acid on your gun.
I used play caps for a while but it destroyed the pistol. EXTREMELY CORROSIVE. Like pouring acid on your gun.
The first time I seen 1/4 "plastic tube used on a 1/4 X 28 nipple was to protect its B/P Cap mounting on a #11 rifle nipple done to eliminate (rain wet'ed) miss-fires.
Never dawned on me to exchange a B/P Cap with small pistol primers. I wonder if the use of a Magnum S/P primer would ignite some of those hard to ignite {inline rifle} substitute powders? ~~~Don't know if that idea benefits a side lock all that much?
If you are curious if they’d ignite BH209 the answer is no. A fellow made some custom nipples that fire large primers and someone who received a set tried this. He needed a booster charge for it to work well. I’ve never had issues igniting T7 or Pyrodex with a percussion cap.
I have been doing this for about 3 years now. SP primers at about $28.00/1000 vs caps at $60.00/100, no brainer. And you can sometimes get 2-3 uses from the piece of tubing.
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Wow, why didn't I think of that. I will try that on a rifle.
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Nit Wit
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Fantastic ! A super use for all those cheap out of diameter Rusky primers.
Another thought... Good tight fitting tubing may be near water tight. Those sudden shower days that catch us out and wandering may become near "no issue" without "dripping hot wax".
Mike in Peru
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Jeeves! This is genious, pure genious!
This looks like it might solve another problem common to BP revolvers and that is broken cap fragments jamming the works. Not sure, but I bet that vinyl tube will hold the cap in place after shooting a full-power load.
I have tried using Large Rifle primers and simply removed the anvils. They fit Ok on a #11 rifle nipple but were a pain to deal with.
Have any one try this on a side lock rifle? if so how did go?
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BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |