Hopkins and Allen .45 underhammer

[Pukatea Bay Boy]

I agree that the capping procedure can be kind of dicey. I was trying to cap with one of the number 11 caps and the hammer slipped out of my fingers for an accidental discharge. I was sitting in the back of my hatchback and luckily the rifle was pointed away from me up into the tree line when I was capping it. Everybody seriously freaked out as well as myself because I had no idea how it happened.

That's when I decided to switch to musket caps because I can put one of those on while it's on half instead of full.

I've been thinking about the way to develop a sort of safety mechanism for it, although that may take more fabricating work than I'm capable of.

Oohh.
That would have been extremely loud in a hatchedbck car
Glad you all came out ok.
Hope you had it pointd out the window?
made a safety myself.
Bit just point at safe position .
I made up a shaped wood but it fell out somewhere .
Glad you are all OK after that & hopefully your car liquid sunshine dosnt come dripping inside your auto nowadays?
Kia Ora Tatou
Chris

 

[Southern_Saint]

Oohh.
That would have been extremely loud in a hatchedbck car
Glad you all came out ok.
Hope you had it pointd out the window?
made a safety myself.
Bit just point at safe position .
I made up a shaped wood but it fell out somewhere .
Glad you are all OK after that & hopefully your car liquid sunshine dosnt come dripping inside your auto nowadays?
Kia Ora Tatou
Chris

I was thankfully on the tailgate with the muzzle pointed safe direction. Thankfully my car is not leaking liquid sunshine in the trunk area.