- May 15, 2007
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I use the end of a wooden dowel to fully seat the caps on the nipples.
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Powder
Powder measure
Powder flask or something that dispenses powder (people have used condiment dispensers but some ranges may say it has to be metal)
Percussion caps
Over-shot grease (Crisco works) or Wonder Wads
Nipple wrench
Nipple pick
Round brush for cleaning bore and cylinder
Grease for nipple threads
Rags
Not necessary to shoot but makes life bearable:
Loading stand
Capper
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The nice thing about '58's is that you can take the grips off, spray with your favorite soap and water, rinse and lube and you are done. Colt's take a little more time to clean.
I second the loading stand as it makes squeezing the balls into the cylinder much easier. You may think you can do it holding onto the gun, and you can, but it is much easier with the stand.
I second the loading stand as it makes squeezing the balls into the cylinder much easier. You may think you can do it holding onto the gun, and you can, but it is much easier with the stand.
Archeryrob
Undecided on a great many things
Hands down way better than doing the over grease.
Couldn't agree more.
I have Wonder Wads and use them on occasion, but I can get beeswax from my beekeeper brother. I thin it with a little olive oil.
Wonder wads don't work well with Remmy's as you need the extra grease or it will carbon up after a couple of cylinders full.
Funny, that never happened with mine. Were you using real BP by any chance?
Wads prevent chain fires. [Cue discussion about grease and nipples.]
Funny, that never happened with mine. Were you using real BP by any chance?
Wads prevent chain fires. [Cue discussion about grease and nipples.]
Yes I was. As for chain fires, I have never had one in almost sixty years of shooting BP.
We didn't have wads when I was a kid and we shot real Colt's and Remingtons. They were pretty heavy for us kids.
- May 15, 2007
- 24,493
Funny, that never happened with mine. Were you using real BP by any chance?
Wads prevent chain fires. [Cue discussion about grease and nipples.]
Nipples and chain fire? I think that's extremely unlikely. Unless you didn't have all nipples capped.
Bought the snail capper, tried it out in the basement. Caps like dream. Allows sufficient pressure to ensure the cap seats and will clear the cylinder backing plate (or whatever the proper name is for the frame part that always jams up the cylinder when the caps aren't properly seated) As a bonus, the capper cavity acts like a turning plate to get all the caps facing properly, No ridges, so I don't know how. Just dump them in and start jiggling. Uberti 1860 Army.
The magic of gravity, IMO. Glad to hear it worked for you.
I never had one, so I couldn't say from firsthand experience. I've read in other BP/C&B forums (fora?) that chain fires are due to flame entering via a non-contiguous ball seal or via a loose cap on one nipple. They seem to take this as gospel, with one maintaining a chain fire log which I've never been motivated enough to look at.
When I first started BP revolver I read all about the danger of chainfire and used bore butter to cap the top of the ball. After the first firing the heat of the cylinder melted it into a gooey mess. I really think the danger of chain fire is based on people that just pour powder directly into the cylinder from a flask and get some stuck on the face of the cylinder. I don't use anything over the ball, just seat the ball and cap the nipple.
That gooey mess is what you need to keep a '58 Remmy turning through several cylinders full. They need the lube to keep the carbon soft on the cylinder pin and at cylinder/barrel gap.
Blacksmith101
Grumpy Old Man
- Jun 22, 2012
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A good discussion on percussion caps including how pinched caps could lead to chain fires.
http://guntoters.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Percussion-Caps-and-Nipples2.pdf
http://guntoters.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Percussion-Caps-and-Nipples2.pdf
I use slixshot nipples on my Colt's and Remmies and am very happy with them.
That goey mess runs down my arm and drips off my elbow. There is no way a significant portion ends up on the bore. I still use bore butter on the base pin, just not in the cylinders
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