Patch/Cap box on a percussion rifle

[deerstalkert]

Why not an In-Line capper hung low around your Neck , theyre practical, safe and women find them attractive ......

And Condoms......
Over the Rifles muzzle .....
On rainy days.....or Goats intestines for authenticity....

i guess the first justifies the second?

 

[Grenadier1758]

If I am going to have a capper around my neck, then it's going to be this one.

Much easier to use on a cap lock rifle than the in-line cappers.

 

[cynthialee]

I have a jag (for sure) and a ball puller or a patch worm...I forget which one I left in there last. They are kept from rattling around with a pair of ear plugs.

 

[FishDFly]

I keep caps in mine. Makes it super easy to cap the nipple as I step up to the firing line.

Sounds like a good way to drop caps into the grass and dirt trying to get one out.

 

[gunnyr]

Why not an In-Line capper hung low around your Neck , theyre practical, safe and women find them attractive ......

No, No that would give the SgtMaj something else to grab to lead me around with.
Gunnyr

 

[Coinneach]

If I am going to have a capper around my neck, then it's going to be this one.

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Much easier to use on a cap lock rifle than the in-line cappers.

I've no idea what kind of in-line cappers you use over there, but the straight narrow channelled brass one I've used for years now has never let me down.

 

[Grenadier1758]

The in-line cappers have their uses. I do like them for putting caps on my revolvers. My leather capper above is useless for that.

 

[Widows Son]

If they were unnecessary, would gun makers have gone thru the effort to add them?

Its a ‘nice feature’, like a sunroof on a car. I didn’t say patch boxes are actually useless, just unnecessary. To each their own.

I assume you have Traveled to the East if you know Hiram.

 

[skwerleater]

I use the cap boxes for a few caps, and a few patches and maybe a ball of it fits. A patch box which is bigger, holds some patching, a ball, a worm and sometimes a small flat turn screw. Works for me, to have those items on the gun when I am hunting. From the bench, I usually have everything spread out in front of me so don’t go into the cap or patchbox then.

 

[UndeadPoet]

Its a ‘nice feature’, like a sunroof on a car. I didn’t say patch boxes are actually useless, just unnecessary. To each their own.

I assume you have Traveled to the East if you know Hiram.

Widows Son and JB67, I am a “traveling” poet , and am currently abiding in the East this year…stop by if you are ever in my part of NC.

 

[necchi]

a percussion rifle with a patch/cap box, what do you carry in it (if anything)?

Spare nipple and a ball puller for that gun and rod. Other wise I think the purpose of them has been lost on us modern folk. We really don't need to use them.
There's nobody around to teach us how handy a patch box was to have and use, .
In the development of firearms, the military of the world didn't seem to have a need for them,, but with personal guns, they seemed to be common and many times very ornate

 

[Widows Son]

Widows Son and JB67, I am a “traveling” poet , and am currently abiding in the East this year…stop by if you are ever in my part of NC.

My ‘mother’ is #9, in Idaho. I’ve been a member of my ‘sister’ #86 in Queensland Australia for a looong time.

Always glad to greet a Brother

 

[FPDoc]

If you have/carry a percussion rifle with a patch/cap box, what do you carry in it (if anything)?

Keys to the truck?

 

[necchi]

I can understand about caps not fitting, I have had to find which caps fit which rifle.

I struggled with that too;
Rifle A,B,C,, each with nipples A,B,C,, caps for each A,B,C,,
That's when I became aware of caps not fitting.
Then I found out that nipple A, fit's cap B really well.

So I put nipple A on all the gun's, and bought a bunch of cap B.

 

[necchi]

Widows Son and JB67, I am a “traveling” poet , and am currently abiding in the East this year…

Lewis here. You guy's, always talking code, Pop was 33rd, 50yr pin. He always came back to "traveling man". The times Dad was in the east,, I overheard him say once "Hold the gavel firmly, but tap lightly."
He gave his children foundation.

 

[Coinneach]

Its a ‘nice feature’, like a sunroof on a car. I didn’t say patch boxes are actually useless, just unnecessary. To each their own.

I assume you have Traveled to the East if you know Hiram.

"Here's to the Sons of the Widow
Whenever wherever they roam
A speedy relief to their afflictions
And if they desire,
a speedy return to their home"
(Brother R. Kipling).

My ‘mother’ is #9, in Idaho. I’ve been a member of my ‘sister’ #86 in Queensland Australia for a looong time.

Always glad to greet a Brother

So Mote it Be.

 

[Coinneach]

The in-line cappers have their uses. I do like them for putting caps on my revolvers. My leather capper above is useless for that.

To be honest I've never used one of those leather cappers, and its always wondered if Caps can be lost using them.

 

[DuncNZ]

The cap boxes I have seen on antique British made rifles are highly engraved and will sometimes take an old time tin of caps , I think these boxes were to fill in a space and show off some engravers skill . a little like false side plates on a modern s/s shotgun . After all one's gun bearer or Ghillie did the loading .

If you make one of those leather cappers ,just never put it in your back pocket .

 

[Tumbledown]

Sounds like a good way to drop caps into the grass and dirt trying to get one out.

Nope, just deep enough to hold the caps, shallow enough to be able to pick one out.

 

[Tumbledown]

Wow, how many caps do you go though on a woods walk? I can understand about caps not fitting, I have had to find which caps fit which rifle. Comes from shooting too many different rifles!

The woods walk at my old club had 16 or so targets, a stash of 20-25 caps was plenty. Inline cappers only hold 10-ish.