I'd like to see the results also. I'll probably wait until the weather warms up here in Northern Iowa. Would like to do when the air temperature is more likened for loading percussion revolvers and the temp wouldn't affect the caps/powder combustion. Not sure how it does so on them, really haven't ever read or heard ilf and how as it does with some smokeless powders.
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Good advise Slixshot are the best with Remington #10 or #11. OK with CCI#11 but not RWS to my disappointment as I have a bunch.
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Slixshots on my Walker and 1858 Remington using any brand #11 or 1075's. All good. I put Track of the Wolf on the 1851 Navy and found #11 caps sometimes did not seat all the way even using a dowel. I put the nipples in my drill and lightly polished them and reblued them. The 1851 is now the best running of the three. Also polished the sharp edges on the hammer. Spent caps follow the channel and generally shed off with cylinder rotation.
OK, here is a picture of percussion cap dimensions that a CAS Forum member posted a few years back. I attempted to post the whole three page thread on the caps. It was posted by a former member that went by the name of Mako who was very knowledgeable on percussion guns, their workings, faults, and fixes. He was some kind of an engineer by trade I believe and was very talented in posting CAD drawings of any type of firearm you could mention. Of course, this thread has to do with percussion revolvers and the various percussion caps available and nipples available at the time. At the time of the posting Treso nipples (Mako and some others on CAS call them cones) were the rage of the percussion community. Slix-Shots were not on the market yet, but after the posting of this thread, postings on the CAS black powder forum related how the Slix's and Treso's were blood brothers.
I attempted to attach the whole three page thread but because my computer skills are lacking alot of know how and ability to do so, I kept getting a "Unable to Download" signal so I just took a picture of the cap chart, downloaded that to my desk computer and went from there. If you want to read the whole thread, which is very informative on caps, nipples, cap to hammer relationship, cap construction, relative power of caps, etc, you'd be missing out on a real real informative article by not reading. I know--CAS has to do with cowboy action shooting of an era that occurred later than flint lock and percussion rifles and pistols (kind of after 1865 era), but the basic information that is relative to cap and ball revolvers from the beginning of Colts Paterson to the last of the cap revolvers developed in the early 1860's is the same. Not all CAS shooters shoot conversions or the 1873 Colt Army 45 Colt. Alot shoot percussion and even muzzleloaders in competition.
If you want to read the thread go to The CAS Forum. Scroll down to 'The Darksiders Den'. At the top of the page you'll see 'The Dark Arts', click on that. About 2/3 down the page is a thread originally posted by a guy call 'Mako' called 'Cap Gun Primer: Correct Cone Length". Click that and three pages of top shelf info follow. I got the cap chart off of page 2. Enjoy. Oh WOW, got it to download. Ifin some outfit hired me to do computer work for them I'd be sent down the road before the 0900 break. I never grew up with these things or had a job that needed the ability of my fingers. Even the 21 years I was a Police Officer the dispatcher did all the work. I typed reports on a typewriter and used a copier for additional copies. Were not even smart phones, much less flip phones around then, carried a Colt Trooper .357, no Tasers, no body camera's, just my 6-shot Colt, Mace, and a side handle baton, plus my deadly trained hands.
I attempted to attach the whole three page thread but because my computer skills are lacking alot of know how and ability to do so, I kept getting a "Unable to Download" signal so I just took a picture of the cap chart, downloaded that to my desk computer and went from there. If you want to read the whole thread, which is very informative on caps, nipples, cap to hammer relationship, cap construction, relative power of caps, etc, you'd be missing out on a real real informative article by not reading. I know--CAS has to do with cowboy action shooting of an era that occurred later than flint lock and percussion rifles and pistols (kind of after 1865 era), but the basic information that is relative to cap and ball revolvers from the beginning of Colts Paterson to the last of the cap revolvers developed in the early 1860's is the same. Not all CAS shooters shoot conversions or the 1873 Colt Army 45 Colt. Alot shoot percussion and even muzzleloaders in competition.
If you want to read the thread go to The CAS Forum. Scroll down to 'The Darksiders Den'. At the top of the page you'll see 'The Dark Arts', click on that. About 2/3 down the page is a thread originally posted by a guy call 'Mako' called 'Cap Gun Primer: Correct Cone Length". Click that and three pages of top shelf info follow. I got the cap chart off of page 2. Enjoy. Oh WOW, got it to download. Ifin some outfit hired me to do computer work for them I'd be sent down the road before the 0900 break. I never grew up with these things or had a job that needed the ability of my fingers. Even the 21 years I was a Police Officer the dispatcher did all the work. I typed reports on a typewriter and used a copier for additional copies. Were not even smart phones, much less flip phones around then, carried a Colt Trooper .357, no Tasers, no body camera's, just my 6-shot Colt, Mace, and a side handle baton, plus my deadly trained hands.
