you are the man!!7000 caps
you are the man!!7000 caps
As a contemporary of RUDYARDS Iv'e used many Victorian caps as when we started lots of older gunmakers and gun shops had vintage stock as they didn't live in todays throw away culture. I still use F4 21's and F3 16's(same size as Musket,without the skirt) made by Joyce & Co. Can't remember any misfires with those in 60 odd years. Plenty with modern No.11's apart from FIOCCHI brass ones. Easy ways to be rid of bad ones is soak 'em in old engine oil.. or Diesel..Iv'e used caps that where Victorian & where in India they didn't fail me if I only opened one tin .
Rudyard
LOTS of early caps used Fulminate of Mercury as the as the detinator. It's the mercury wats corosive and highly Toxic. Can't even get Mercury batteries these days .O.D.no like Chlorate primer corrosive
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An ol fella told me some years ago that they use to chew them a little and if a couple popped off they knew the Caps werent too old to use; he had to repeat that a few times though as I couldnt understand him on account that he didnt have many teeth.......
how can this post keep on going for so long? unbleavable!!!
You do realize that now, someone here, after reading the above will accept that it is a way to test caps will go and do it don't you?
Gee thanks. As if ROs don't have enough stupidity to deal with every time we're on the range.Why not just throw them in the spent brass bucket at the range. Let the RO deal with hem.
Just don't go shooting your mouth off!
Natural Selection works!You do realize that now, someone here, after reading the above will accept that it is a way to test caps will go and do it don't you?
Why wouldn't you use them?duca,
It's no joke--and they're soaking in a bucket of water right now.....
joliver
Why wouldn't you use them?
They're probably better than what you can buy now.
SMH
I would bet that they still work...and with the election year coming next year..., they might get hard to find again. I'd recommend just keeping them.
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