I have been looking on the Bay for a while and have seen these magspark .209 adapters for the old army and was wondering if anyone has any knowledge of how these perform. They appear to be magspark .209 primer pockets that screw in the cylinder nipple holes but they have no firing pin mounted cover like the other adapters. It looks like it's the hammer that ignites them.
I have also seen a cnc US made fluted cylinder sans nipples from another seller.
I will always assume that any after market cylinders (or any after market high pressure parts, barrel etc..) for the Old Army are only good for normal black powder loads since no one is willing to go the extra mile to use the super strong steel and quality control that Ruger used in their original Old Amy Cylinders, parts etc.. and revolver. For hot loads such as a cylinder full of 4F (yes that right it's within original Ruger specs.) it would be time to put all the original parts back in.
I just wanted to mention that often neglected fact.
Now back to this magspark. Respectfully I don't want to hear rants about how nipples are the only way a respectable person should shoot a percussion revolver there are other forums that I respect that hold to these views as a whole in this forum it's just another personal opinion nothing else.
The appeal in my opinion is the use of blackhorn .209 and not having to search for hard to get at times often unavailable percussion caps whenever one wants to go to the range. Percussion caps have no real size standards. The current sizing scheme used to this day is crude but effective at best and with when in use with a Ruger Old Army unreliable if your Old Army does not have perfect hammer to nipple alignment which they often do not (another fact not often mentioned.)
The perfect hammer to nipple alignment is what allows one to dry fire the Old Army which is something I can live without. Remington New Model Army revolvers fire all kinds of crap percussion caps with no problem but will hammer the nipples flat when dry fired. That is something I can live with for reliability. I understand to fix the problem on the Old Army requires some file work on certain parts of the hammer to allow it to protrude more toward the nipple but that still will not enable the use of some good clean burning Blackhorn .209.
Any thoughts (pragmatic thoughts only please)
I have also seen a cnc US made fluted cylinder sans nipples from another seller.
I will always assume that any after market cylinders (or any after market high pressure parts, barrel etc..) for the Old Army are only good for normal black powder loads since no one is willing to go the extra mile to use the super strong steel and quality control that Ruger used in their original Old Amy Cylinders, parts etc.. and revolver. For hot loads such as a cylinder full of 4F (yes that right it's within original Ruger specs.) it would be time to put all the original parts back in.
I just wanted to mention that often neglected fact.
Now back to this magspark. Respectfully I don't want to hear rants about how nipples are the only way a respectable person should shoot a percussion revolver there are other forums that I respect that hold to these views as a whole in this forum it's just another personal opinion nothing else.
The appeal in my opinion is the use of blackhorn .209 and not having to search for hard to get at times often unavailable percussion caps whenever one wants to go to the range. Percussion caps have no real size standards. The current sizing scheme used to this day is crude but effective at best and with when in use with a Ruger Old Army unreliable if your Old Army does not have perfect hammer to nipple alignment which they often do not (another fact not often mentioned.)
The perfect hammer to nipple alignment is what allows one to dry fire the Old Army which is something I can live without. Remington New Model Army revolvers fire all kinds of crap percussion caps with no problem but will hammer the nipples flat when dry fired. That is something I can live with for reliability. I understand to fix the problem on the Old Army requires some file work on certain parts of the hammer to allow it to protrude more toward the nipple but that still will not enable the use of some good clean burning Blackhorn .209.
Any thoughts (pragmatic thoughts only please)