If you have/carry a percussion rifle with a patch/cap box, what do you carry in it (if anything)?
Patch/Cap box on a percussion rifle
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They were made for caps
Most are too small for a cleaning kit.
grease to grease a patch or grease your gun when cleaned
Emergency stash of tobacco
Patches
Cleaning patches
Most are too small for a cleaning kit.
grease to grease a patch or grease your gun when cleaned
Emergency stash of tobacco
Patches
Cleaning patches
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Once at a m/l gun show , a guy had an original Bedford Co. Pa. rifle w/ a brass patch box. He opened it so we could see , and the box still contained residue of some kind of a bees wax formula patch grease. The hardened grease was also stained greenish from contact w/ the underside of the brass patch box lid.
I keep caps in mine. Makes it super easy to cap the nipple as I step up to the firing line.
I have never understood why they were ever built into rifle butts. They are really unnecessary.
That being said…I carry a cleaning jag and a ball screw in mine.
That being said…I carry a cleaning jag and a ball screw in mine.
I carry cleaning patches in mine.
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I have carried pre-lubed and cut patches for woods walks and carried caps once. With a capper, no real need to carry caps in there. Having pre-cut and lubed patches is convenient. I transitioned to using spit patched and cut at the barrel in the field so no longer use pre-cut and lubed patches.
Same here.
Some rifles had a spot for a spare nipple and nipple wrench.
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Sometimes patches or a jag, other times those bite sized Snickers Bars.
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Why not an In-Line capper hung low around your Neck , theyre practical, safe and women find them attractive ......
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A spare Nipple in a Patch box should be screwed into the inside to prevent loss, small hole drilled eases that.
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I found that using a small leather neck suspended patch bag works well, pre-lubed patching in strip form with a "tail" hanging out, is easy to draw on and seat over a muzzle being ready to cut when the Ball is seated. Alternately use a Loading block (I use both).
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I've seen one ML shooter with his FL Vent picker slung and a hoard of pre-lubed pre-cut patches pierced through by the Vent pick hanging there. Seemed like a damn practical idea to me at the time.
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And Condoms......
Over the Rifles muzzle .....
On rainy days.....or Goats intestines for authenticity....
They don't hold enough caps for a woodswalk, it's another thing hanging around the neck, and are a pain to use if the caps don't fit the nipple well. I can open the capbox, grab a cap, pinch it a bit, and put it on the nipple faster than I can type this.
If they were unnecessary, would gun makers have gone thru the effort to add them?I have never understood why they were ever built into rifle butts. They are really unnecessary.
That being said…I carry a cleaning jag and a ball screw in mine.
On a side note, may I call you Hiram?
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While I do carry/use an inline capper, I keep a couple of "emergency" caps wrapped in a cleaning patch (or three) in my stock's cap box
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!
