Does anyone make/sell something like a snap cap cone to dry fire a revolver?

[Flintlock Whiskey]

Know one can get away with dropping the hammer on a cone. But if it is an expensive weapon....

 

[Uncle Miltie]

On a properly set up revolver the hammer never touches the nipple: there is just enough clearance to detonate the cap.

 

[cynthialee]

On a properly set up revolver the hammer never touches the nipple: there is just enough clearance to detonate the cap.

while that is indeed the ideal, most of the revolvers folks have do not meet the expectation

To the question at hand....I just use percussion caps. Get a fun bang and you are not messing up your nipples. (when we were kids my dad used to play quickdraw with me and my brother using his revolvers loaded with just percussion caps, fun times, probably not the dad of the year but we were having a blast)

 

[Uncle Miltie]

while that is indeed the ideal, most of the revolvers folks have do not meet the expectation

To the question at hand....I just use percussion caps. Get a fun bang and you are not messing up your nipples. (when we were kids my dad used to play quickdraw with me and my brother using his revolvers loaded with just percussion caps, fun times, probably not the dad of the year but we were having a blast)

It's simple to do: you file each cone one at a time to achieve proper clearance.

 

[Colonial Boy]

A simple solution is to cut a piece of thin leather and lay it in the channel for the hammer, easy to put in and easy to get out.

 

[French Colonial]

A simple solution is to cut a piece of thin leather and lay it in the channel for the hammer, easy to put in and easy to get out.

I do basically the same thing but use a foam ear plug cut in half, works for two or three cylinder rotations, falls out and I put it back in, easy peesy

 

[wiscoaster]

A simple solution is to cut a piece of thin leather and lay it in the channel for the hammer, easy to put in and easy to get out.

This is the solution I know of, and if my memory can be trusted (but getting iffy these days), I think it's posted somewhere around here.

 

[AlexB]

I tried using leather and it was cutting a plug and clogging the nipples.
Went with uncharged tap caps and they work great.
You can really see exactly how hard and how flush the hammer strike is works on rifles as well.

 

[TNGhost]

Get a length of clear vinyl tubing (like that used in aquarium pumps) that friction fits over the nipple and cut it just longer than the surface of the nipple to cushion the blow from the hammer..

I have also heard that in times of need, this setup can be tweaked to be used to hold the ignition device of the self-contained ammo of unmentionables when caps are not available.

 

[ppg1949]

I’ve read where one can use those red plastic cap gun caps in place of a percussion caps in a pinch. Perhaps that is possible solution. Or just remove the nipples and have at it.

 

[French Colonial]

I tried using leather and it was cutting a plug and clogging the nipples.
Went with uncharged tap caps and they work great.
You can really see exactly how hard and how flush the hammer strike is works on rifles as well.

You don't put it on the nipples, you put it in the curved channel where the hammer goes......lower than the nipples.

 

[Jappo]

Get a length of clear vinyl tubing (like that used in aquarium pumps) that friction fits over the nipple and cut it just longer than the surface of the nipple to cushion the blow from the hammer..

I have also heard that in times of need, this setup can be tweaked to be used to hold the ignition device of the self-contained ammo of unmentionables when caps are not available.

That's what I use. And by the way, they sell them already cut to fit. I think they are called "cap keepers" they might work.

 

[springfield art]

On a properly set up revolver the hammer never touches the nipple: there is just enough clearance to detonate the cap.

True, but most common revolvers aren't that finely "tuned"; a guy on here is making computer-printed percussion caps that he puts the fulminate in; maybe he should sell them as "bumpers" for dry fire use.