How can you use a toy cap like they use in cap guns to hunt big game?
by admin on Thursday, March 11th, 2010 | 8 Comments
Hold on now I am not joking here. There is a way. You have to put on your thinking cap.
Your only hint is black powder percussion rifle or shotgun. There I made it easy.
So how can this be done?
I am talking about the cap gun caps that come in a roll made of paper that has spaced powder charges for kids cap guns.
Thanks for answering my question..
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So what you are saying is use it like a percussion cap on a black powder gun to ignite the powder than? I would guess just not knowing much about them, you might be able to use it.
I don’t know if this can be done to be honest lol, or if it would have enough of a charge to ignite the powder (and all the process, only know so much about black powder/muzzle loader type guns.) This is an interesting question though.
EDIT: If they are under powered use more than one cap with the thing you said was called the “Tap-o-Cap?”
You could place it on the nipple instead of a percussion cap and with a chancy result,must try.
Newer in line black powder guns use a 209 primer, which has considerably more flame than a cap. I can’t imagine, absent the best luck in the world, that a cap would generate enough flame to ignite the powder charge. Percussion caps (the precursor of the .22 rimfire) generate a lot more juice than a kid’s toy cap, too. I don’t do blackpowder, and I’m trying to use some intuitive thinking here. I could be wrong.
Before the invention of the copper percussion cap, a tape similar to a roll of kid’s caps was used in some firearms. And though I’m old, I’m not old enough to remember it.
Hmm… I’m thinking you could almost contain it in a really thin copper shell, and place it over the nipple. All the copper shell has to do, is direct the blast downwards into the charge… no big deal there other than practicality.
Probably not the most effective device though. I prefer CCI #10 and Triple seven when playing with BP. (1851 navy repro)
You mean like the Burnside rifle? The roll caps they have now are direct descendants of the “auto-prime” used on that rifle.
I believe the Sharps also had an auto-primer, not sure if it was the same system…
Careful there ‘Bear Crap’. Those ‘caps’ aren’t ‘black powder’ except for the color.
They’re a chlorate percussion mix a whole lot less stable than the black powder
used in muzzle loading rifles.
Lets not go putting ‘crap’ out on the web, especially in regard to explosives.
That stuff is really corrosive!
But let’s assume something went wrong “politically”, you made a deal for a big box of Roll Caps, you have a 45-70, and must feed your family. The stuff can be used to reload primers, and charge the cartridge. BUT, it has a fast burn rate like Unique or Red Dot, so be careful of overpressure WAY before you get to Big 5 African power levels!