I have been thinking more and more as time goes on about making caps, if you tap the little brass cup out of spent shotgun primers (the part that is struck by the firing pin) hammer out the dent, and pinch it with some pliers it will fit on the nipple of a revolver just fine. I tried putting some paper cap explosive material in the cups and then put them through my Super Companion with some Pyrodex. They lit the powder just fine actually, it does me good to know I've got caps and primers handled.
I think strike anywhere matches would work, maybe if you were to get the material off the tip of the match, make a paste with some alcohol and the match tips, and put some into the primer cups with the anvil.
The only problem is that Diamond has started issuing "Greenlight" strike anywhere matches. The tips are green with the very tip of the match being white, and the wooden sticks are made from "responsibly recycled wood" or something like that.
You can't light em' on your teeth, or your thumbnail, or do any other cool stuff with them. They are no good at all, but that's all I can find. They are much less sensitive than the red tipped ones.
72 Coupe is right, it's surprising how easy it is to make that stuff. Some of the most powerful explosives are pretty simple. Usually only a few ingredients. When I made nitroglycerine I carefully mixed it with sawdust to stabilize it, that would make it much safer to handle.
Glad I still have all my hands and those pictures of big craters still in my mind!
Careful about those young ones, they usually get ideas if you tell them stuff like that. I can't tell you how many things I made when I was young that went bang. :banghead: