DougB
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I recently went on a 3-day "Mormon Pioneer Handcart Trek" - essentially a moving re-enactment with around 130 teenagers plus adult leaders. I dressed more or less in 1850's clothing and carried a Hawken-style replica rifle and a Colt 1860 Army revolver. Anyway, I had eveything I needed to shoot and maintain my rifle and revolver in a leather shoulder bag and a belt pouch. Everything worked fine, except neither of the two new brass cappers I used for the first time were of any use.
I have one straight-line and one of the semi-round ones. Both jammed almost every time I used them and I had to remove the caps by hand. I used the straight-line with #11 caps for my rifle, and the rounded one with #10s for my revolver. Generally, the caps would get sideways or othewise jam in the feed end. It would have been easier to just carry them in their original tins.
So, is this typical? Was I doing something wrong? Do I have bad cappers (they were pretty inexpensive - both well under $20 I think)? What the handiest way to carry caps in the field? I find that with my rifle, even when I could get the capper to feed one properly, I need to pull it off the nipple, squeeze it, and then replace it to get it to stay on (obviously not the capper's fault).
Doug
I have one straight-line and one of the semi-round ones. Both jammed almost every time I used them and I had to remove the caps by hand. I used the straight-line with #11 caps for my rifle, and the rounded one with #10s for my revolver. Generally, the caps would get sideways or othewise jam in the feed end. It would have been easier to just carry them in their original tins.
So, is this typical? Was I doing something wrong? Do I have bad cappers (they were pretty inexpensive - both well under $20 I think)? What the handiest way to carry caps in the field? I find that with my rifle, even when I could get the capper to feed one properly, I need to pull it off the nipple, squeeze it, and then replace it to get it to stay on (obviously not the capper's fault).
Doug