Fragmenting caps...

[TFoley]

This started yesterday, and thankfully, I have the habit of wearing protective eyeglasses.

I opened a brand new tin of Remington caps, loaded up six to clear the nipples before commencing shooting, fired them off and was liberally sprayed with tiny hot and stinging fragments with every fall of the hammer on my ROA. As was the guy standing about four or five feet to my side.

Hoping that I had just picked six extremely fragile caps, I carried on, and rolled my sleeves down over my by-now bleeding forearm, having picked out about twenty pieces of cap with my handy Leatherman.

I gave up after the next twelve shots - all of which liberally peppered my face and shooting hand with bits.

What gives, folks? This has never happened to me before in almost forty years of BP revolver shooting.

Sadly my local dealer only has Remington caps on sale, and my next source of caps is a 100-mile round trip.

Is this a QC glitch, or has anybody else experienced the same problem?

tac, reaching for the elastoplasts

 

[mykeal]

Very unusual. It's never happened to me with any brand.

 

[Cabofdoom]

The only time I get peppered w/ anything it's when Im firing my 1858 Remington Carbine. First shot is dead nuts on target...but after that I start to flinch. Only BP gun I own that begs for a conversion cylinder...But I have never had the problem you describe, and I shoot Remington #10 caps on all my revolvers...they stay on better for me

COD

 

[Dphar]

This started yesterday, and thankfully, I have the habit of wearing protective eyeglasses.

I opened a brand new tin of Remington caps, loaded up six to clear the nipples before commencing shooting, fired them off and was liberally sprayed with tiny hot and stinging fragments with every fall of the hammer on my ROA. As was the guy standing about four or five feet to my side.

Hoping that I had just picked six extremely fragile caps, I carried on, and rolled my sleeves down over my by-now bleeding forearm, having picked out about twenty pieces of cap with my handy Leatherman.

I gave up after the next twelve shots - all of which liberally peppered my face and shooting hand with bits.

What gives, folks? This has never happened to me before in almost forty years of BP revolver shooting.

Sadly my local dealer only has Remington caps on sale, and my next source of caps is a 100-mile round trip.

Is this a QC glitch, or has anybody else experienced the same problem?

tac, reaching for the elastoplasts

I think Remington has a problem with alloys or heat treatment.
There have been reports of Remington 6 1/2 small rifle primers bursting, not piercing, at the bend of the cup and gas cutting breech faces of high pressure (500000+ psi) rifles. These are the same thickness as CCI SR and other primers so it has to me metallurgy.
Obviously something is fundamentally wrong.
I would contact Remington.

Dan

 

[TFoley]

Dan, I agree with you there. Sadly, from past experience, I can tell you that Remington ignore letters emanating from outside CONUS, even Canada.

tac

 

[jethro224]

:hmm: You didn't grab a tin of #11 caps instead of #10's did you?
Just a thought.

 

[hanshi]

:hmm: You didn't grab a tin of #11 caps instead of #10's did you?
Just a thought.

That's was my first thought, too. They should fit the nipples pretty snug & be hard to get off.

 

[widget350]

I've never had a problem with a whole tin, but I've gotten a bloody lip from fragments of a CCI cap flying off a sidelock pistol. I've been using CCI for years, and while it doesn't happen often, every once in a while you find one that does it.

 

[Poor Private]

If it's only 1 tin that your woried about toss it out-- they are cheap. Not worth the body damage.