Pedersoli 209 Conversion Nipple

[Tasbay]

Picked up a Pedersoli 209 Conversion Nipple from a guy at work, who mistakenly bought it for his rifled Musket only to find it didn`t fit. I have fitted it to my Pedersoli Traditional Hawken, and it works fine. My issue is only the front edge of the hammer strikes the nipple plunger on firing. Is this likely to cause damage to the hammer cup (edge). Anyone else have one and any issues?.

Before anyone asks what was wrong with using #11 percussion caps, Nothing and I still have about 30 tins of those along with thousands of the plastic toy caps which I normally use on all my percussion guns. I also just happened to have 2 boxes (2000 primers) of 209 Shotgun sitting around that were not being used, I don`t load shotgun ammo.

 

[northernThaiguy]

Tasbay, could you please take a pic of the plastic toy caps and post it? I'm curious about those!
Thanks!
Lloyd

 

[tallPercshooter]

The red plastic toy caps I have seen are far too small to fit on a #11 nipple. I made a toy gun and used a cutoff small finish nail for a nipple. they fit just right on that.

 

[sethwyo]

Can't find percussion caps but have been thinking about an adapter that would take a large rifle primer, I have been looking for some kind of an adapter there's a heap of these 209s around

 

[sethwyo]

Not exactly what I was looking for but I do have about a thousand of these 209s that I didn't know what I was going to do with them

 

[springfield art]

Picked up a Pedersoli 209 Conversion Nipple from a guy at work, who mistakenly bought it for his rifled Musket only to find it didn`t fit. I have fitted it to my Pedersoli Traditional Hawken, and it works fine. My issue is only the front edge of the hammer strikes the nipple plunger on firing. Is this likely to cause damage to the hammer cup (edge). Anyone else have one and any issues?.

Before anyone asks what was wrong with using #11 percussion caps, Nothing and I still have about 30 tins of those along with thousands of the plastic toy caps which I normally use on all my percussion guns. I also just happened to have 2 boxes (2000 primers) of 209 Shotgun sitting around that were not being used, I don`t load shotgun ammo.

30 tins? Look outside your window, there's about 3 dozen guys clambering on your lawn!

 

[Tasbay]

30 tins? Look outside your window, there's about 3 dozen guys clambering on your lawn!

Yeh I`m kind of protective about my percussion caps. Only use them for hunting, mostly at the range it`s the Plastic toy caps that get used but also use those hunting, depending on whether it`s small game- Goats or Deer.

 

[Tasbay]

Tasbay, could you please take a pic of the plastic toy caps and post it? I'm curious about those!
Thanks!
Lloyd

They are just the Red plastic toy ring caps for kids revolvers you get at 1$ shops or toy stores. I generally use the Taiwanese ones, but the Chinese ones also work. What I do is pick out the white paper insert from inside the cap and sprinkle in some black powder till the cap is about half full (just powder between your fingers).Compress lightly with a match stick. Give the caps a good spray with cheap hairspray and let dry.
Roll them onto the nipple from the side and don`t push down hard (that will set them off). I use them on my Zouave , CVA, Pedersoli, T/C all with #11 Nipples. I find the caps almost 100% effective and as good as CCI #11.

 

[Acohill1]

sounds like keeping the caps around so long is biting u

 

[Sam squanch]

Around here small pistol primers are coming back at reasonable prices.

 

[exarcher]

Can't find percussion caps but have been thinking about an adapter that would take a large rifle primer, I have been looking for some kind of an adapter there's a heap of these 209s around

i remember conversions for rifle primers back in the late 70's,, several of my friends had em on their t/c side locks... i've not been able to find info on such these days though,, just 209 conversion (Mag Spark) and pedersoli, (which suggest not using with black powder, only for indoor primer fired projectiles).. it does have a quite large flash hole..

 

[springfield art]

Just as with 'strike anywhere' matches, I think the paper kit's caps of today are not a powerful as when I was a kid! Way back when! Anyone else thing that? I've not done experiments to try to prove....