Easy way to handle caps??

[happyhunter]

I am a newbie to percussion rifles. I recently bought a used 50 cal TC Renegade. Is there some sort of holder for keeping percussion caps handy and making it easy to handle the little things?

Thanks,
Happy Hunter

 

[ohio ramrod]

Because I have arthritis I had to find a way to get the caps on my rifle long ago. After trying several commerical cappers I was told by an old timer how they did it in the old days. Take a leather strip about 3/4 inch wide, 3/16 inch thick. Punch a series of 3/16 holes about 1/2 inch apart down the center. Then take a sharp knife and cuy small "V's" into the holes from one side. Then take two wider strips and rivet or sew them so that the punched strip slides between them. This will give you a strip and that you can load with the caps and pull out as needed. You then put the cap over the nipple and slide the strip off the cap. This not only holds the caps, allows for easy loading the leather cover helps to keep water ond moist air from the caps.I have two types one longer one I use on the range. And several shorter ones that I use as a necklas for hunting. This way I have dry easy to reach caps available at all times.. If you are interested I can email you photos if you give your email address. I still have trouble with the photo bucket thing.

 

[musketman]

I am a newbie to percussion rifles. I recently bought a used 50 cal TC Renegade. Is there some sort of holder for keeping percussion caps handy and making it easy to handle the little things?

Thanks,
Happy Hunter

Many of the muzzleloading supply stores carry cappers for percussion caps, they look like what I have pictured below.

You can also make your own using a heavy piece of leather and a leather punch the size of the caps, then hang it from a string and you are ready to go.

 

[happyhunter]

Ohio Ramrod,
thanks for the info. I would like to see the picts. I sent you my email address on a private topic.

Thanks,
Happy Hunter

 

[CoyoteJoe]

I highly recommend the Ted Cash teardrop shaped capper. They hold a full can of caps and are very quick and easy to load. I can load 100 caps in the Ted Cash capper quicker than 10 in one of the straight line cappers. I use mine for a variety of rifles, shotguns and revolvers, anything which takes a #10 or #11 cap. It does take a little practice to learn to use it but once mastered it is so much easier than handling individual caps.

 

[happyhunter]

Coyote Joe,
that looks great. But my question is do they rattle and make noise? That would not be good for hunting.

 

[paulvallandigham]

I use the Tedd Cash oval capper in brass. Yes, the caps rattle, but you can't hear them more than a couple of feet away. Its basically copper bumping against brass, and the sound made is just not pitched high enough to carry very far.

Its actually more of a dull, muffled, ticking sound. You have to shake it holding it between your thumb and forefinger, next to your ear, to hear the sound you might describe as a " rattle". When its in your hunting pouch, or pocket, you cannot hear the rattling at all.

{Secret TIP: If you fill the capper FULL of caps, you reduce the Rattling to near ZERO. There simply is no place for the caps to move to "rattle".} :hmm: :surrender: :hatsoff:

You will get more Sound putting the cap on the nipple with nervous fingers, than you get from any rattling of caps in a capper.

The layered leather cappers, described above, work with both #11 caps, and with those " MUSKET" caps that are being discussed. Musket caps don't produce any hotter flame, or more flame than does a standard #11 cap. Musket caps do cost more, however, and generally require a different nipple to hold them in place on your gun. Yes, they can be fired using a standard nipple, but the musket cap sits loose on the nipple.

For Safety Sakes, I prefer NOT to load caps on nipples holding a cap in my bare fingers.
:hmm:

 

[oldfrank]

It is not traditional but I love this star capper for when I use the tiny percussion caps. The little fingers hold a cap for easy placement on the nipple and extra caps are stored inside.
http://possibleshop.com/s-s-cappers.html

 

[paulvallandigham]

To each his own. I don't like plastic anything in my pouch. Why not make a similar capper with a few pieces of leather? The center one has hole punched in it to hold the caps, with a slit to the edge of the leather( often a circle, or rectangle). The center piece is protected from water by two pieces on each side of it. The one keeps the caps from falling out, and the other protects your thumb as you are pressing the caps onto the nipple( in case of a premature firing). :hmm: :thumbsup:

 

[rabjr]

I always used a straight brass capper. Worked well for me and easy to use. When I switched to musket caps, I found a inline brass capper that worked with the RWS non-flanged caps. I found them quiet and easy to use. But I use rocks now..

 

[Rat Trapper]

For hunting for even range work, I really like TC's star seven capper.

 

[Cpl-epps]

I have only skim read most of this but what most guys in my re-enacting unit do is replace the nipple to use the dog ear type of cap in stead of the corrugated pistol caps

 

[stewart.leach]

Break down and get the Ted Cash oval shaped capper. Quality product. This is one of those devices that once you have it, you ask yourself "why didn't I get one sooner?".

Tie about a foot of leather lace to the ring on the end of the capper, and a wire nipple pick to the other end of the lace.

Get uniformly good results by using the capper in this manner: with latch side down, press button and shake a cap into position at the tip. Press cap on nipple, and pull capper off sideways. Turn capper over and use back of capper to firmly press cap down on nipple. 100 % firing on first strike.