New guy pistol question?

[Mike Sequeira]

Is this any good for pistols?

 

[Gtrubicon]

I have that one, I did a lot of filing/fitting to the nose to get it to work. It Works ok. I’d like to find something that works better.

 

[Mike Sequeira]

I have that one, I did a lot of filing/fitting to the nose to get it to work. It Works ok. I’d like to find something that works better.

Wow that sucks. so keeping them in the tin is the best route at the moment?

 

[Phil Coffins]

I have that type and the snail type, both work but I’m more likely to use them straight from the tin.

 

[SDSmlf]

Is this any good for pistols?View attachment 276944

Curious, what type of pistol? With a single shot, should work. With a cap and ball revolver, maybe. Depends on clearance in the cylinder around the nipple.

 

[Bad Karma]

Is this any good for pistols?View attachment 276944

I use that type for rifles and most revolvers. if I’m shootin at a bench I’ll use my fat fingers…

 

[CaptainVane]

That is a Traditions, I have 3. I had to do a lot of filing to get it to try to work on a Colt. Still wont work right. They stay home in a box labeled “Useless stuff i bought“. I take 3 i bought from Ted Cash that actually work.

 

[ppg1949]

I use the old CVA type shown in your picture. I use it on all my rifles, shotgun and revolvers. I never had a problem with it.

 

[wiscoaster]

OMG, I absolutely HATE those CVA and Traditions straight-line brass cappers. The snail cappers, too. Get yourself a plastic star capper. Something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Capper-Muzzleloaders-Percussion-Holder-Powder/dp/B09471YKV6?th=1 - for which there are numerous vendors, as they're easily manufactured with a 3D printer.

I have a couple that take twelve caps, but I can't for the life remember where I bought them, and a cursory search of amazon, ebay and etsy didn't find them, either. They work SO well and are SO convenient, you can take those brass cappers and melt them down for the metal, IMO.

 

[dracer]

welcome to the forum

 

[ZUG]

I have a Ted Cash snail and a straight one like you show. I find that the snail one works on most of my rifles & pistols and the straight one works on the others. There are 3-D printed ones that look like a "star" that work well on most all percussion guns and they are cheap. Looks like this
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254171684088

 

[Tyler L]

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I have a couple that take twelve caps, but I can't for the life remember where I bought them

Perhaps it was Guns of the West?
https://gunsoftheweststore.com/products/12-cap-capper-pack-of-3

 

[Rifleman1776]

I have that one, I did a lot of filing/fitting to the nose to get it to work. It Works ok. I’d like to find something that works better.

In my limited experience with C&B revolvers, I found the straight line to be the best. Howsomever, they often do require a lot of fiddling, bending, filing and cussing at to make them work well. Fingers is more reliable.

 

[wiscoaster]

Perhaps it was Guns of the West?

Yup. That's it. Great cappers!!

 

[PastorB]

I've never used anything other than my "Fat Fingers" to cap any gun, including revolvers. Since I would have to handle a cap to put them in a capper one at a time, why not just use that same amount of time/effort to place the cap directly on the nipple when ready to fire? Plus, using "Fat Fingers" I can pinch the caps slightly if I desire to make it stay more securely on the cones of my revolvers. Some say that leads to chain fires, and I'm sure it has happened to some, but in 48 years of shooting cap and ball revolvers, I have never had a chain fire (knock on wood). Also, if I put a #11 cap on my nipples/cones without pinching, one or two will invariably fall off. Remington #10's alleviate this problem to a great degree, but good luck finding those. I'm saving my remaining Remington #10's, about 2,000 or so, for "serious" work, and pinching my CCI #11's which I have a huge supply of, for everything else. I very rarely/never have a cap issue related to using pinched #11 caps vs. #10's.

 

[1stnamebassist]

Yup. That's it. Great cappers!!

I bought a couple of those. One of them started breaking and falling apart as I used it. Didn’t try the other one or two yet. The part that holds the caps kind of crumbled.

 

[M. De Land]

Is this any good for pistols?View attachment 276944

I use which ever one works or modify the gun to work with one of them. Click on to enlarge and see all of them.

 

[kh54]

With my first revolver I bought a Traditions straight capper. It fell apart after about three uses. I then bought a Ted Cash straight capper. After four or five years it still works fine. I have two that I load up while watching TV then I don’t have to fool with the tins at the range. I also have a Ted Cash snail type that I use for rifles and sometimes the larger revolvers. If you buy either type of capper go with Ted Cash or not at all.

 

[No second place]

The Polish capper is a great option with no tuning needed. A match winning favorite of mine...c

 

[garypl]

I printed a bunch of these and they work well on revolvers and other caplocks. Anybody wants to print their own, PM me and I can email you the gcode file to print 6 at a time.