[Oldfalguy]

I am dumber than sack of rocks-

I just spent the last 2 days at a machine gun shoot in Oklahoma
Well after hammering off over 10K round through a 1917 and a Vickers gun I figured I would finally get an opportunity to shoot my SS ROA-:p
Brought everything BP related I have bought- some stuff I didn't even need-:rolleyes:

So a flask charge two shots with 30gr Goex 3f, top them with wonder wads and very easily ram'ed in .457 balls. They fit perfect:D

And then..................guess who FORGOT his percussion caps.........:cuss:
Yes it was I :banghead:

Out of all the gear one has to remember to have to keep these old mg's running I manage to forget 2 little bitty caps-:fire:
UGH!

Mark

[Ratdog68]

I'll bet ya had fun with the full-auto gear !! Life ain't always perfect. :neener:

[2RCO]

I'm guessing you were at the Shoot put on by the folks from Firing Line in Wyandotte.. There are several places around the area you could have gotten caps.

[AussieTH]

Don't feel too dumb mate!

I took the wife to the club & range for the first time yesterday. She was unhappy about being given a Ruger semi auto .22 to shoot but I lined her up with a member who has an 1860 Army. That was more her scene and she fondled it etc and was ready to go - except - he had forgotten to bring the BP with him. Had everything else but no powder!

I got her all the joining forms etc and promised to buy her a Police Pocket next week so she calmed down a bit and I even got dinner that evening!

Aye

Tony

[MCgunner]

Get yourself a plastic box at Walmart with hinged top, like a tool box or tackle box. They have 'em cheap there, 10 or 12 bucks. It'll hold all your BP stuff, so you just have two things to forget, the box and the gun. Forget one of those and, well, I can't help ya. ROFL!

[Gaucho Gringo]

I have got all my black powder guns, balls, powder, caps, holsters, gunbelts, loader and everything else in a big laptop carry bag. Everything is in one place, it has different zippered compartments, it is almost impossible for me to forget something (unless I forget the bag) and it was cheap ($5.00 at a yard sale). It works for me. I have all my handguns set up this way with various size bags for each.

Update: I have added pictures of it.

[BCRider]

I've done sort of the same thing. I fly radio control model airplanes as one of my too many hobbys. Twice over my life I've remembered the airplanes but forgot the control transmitters. One isn't any good without the other.

Any of us that say they've never forgotten an item of critical support equipment for any of their hobbys or sports can be safely said to be lying through their teeth.... :D

[danprkr]

I did a shoot last year to teach safety etc for my wife's sons (among others), and for the fun part of the afternoon packed my SKS, but no ammo. Happens. :what: Regardless, the boys had fun with my little Puma, and others. But, it was annoying as I wanted to shoot the SKS:fire:

[Ratdog68]

I landed on an island for a deer hunt. Uhhhhh? Key for my bowcase? Back on the mainland. Well... at least I had a rifle too. :banghead:

[.38 Special]

I used to arrive at the monthly .22 match invariably missing something. It was never anything critical, but always annoying. So I got smart and put together a checklist, which included everything I needed/wanted but the gun. You guessed it; I showed up at the next match with everything but my gun.

So in the OPs shoes I wouldn't feel too bad. No matter how dumb you think you are, there's always someone dumber!

[BCRider]

Oh Lordy! Have we turned this into a "True Confessions" thread now? :D

... showed up without the gun.... Oh that IS priceless..... :D And yes, for the record this does indicate that I like to throw rocks inside my glass house.... :D

[Ratdog68]

karma awaits. :evil:

[Oldfalguy]

Yes it was the Wyndotte shoot but I had no idea where there was a place to get anything gun related, much less P. caps
All the mg spare parts are in 2 large tackle boxes-
I picked up a plastic case that holds 4 pistols with layers-
Pistol on top and everything else (I thought) on the next layer-

Think I will indeed get a small tackle box with a clear top so I can
easily check it against a CHECKLIST- and a ball bag/can- that Hornady box was a hassle to open properly for some reason.
Only thing worse is when I get home (in the truck now) I find the caps somewhere odd in the pistol case

[Matt-J2]

I once got to the range without the nipples for my C&B revolver.

[Pulp]

Try shooting Frontiersman category at a SASS match when you've left your balls at home!:D

[Ratdog68]

why give 'em to the little woman? :neener: :evil: :neener:

[BCRider]

Pulp, thankyou for deflecting Ratdog's focus for a while.... :D

Although it was pretty much a given when you posted that one.... :D

[Ratdog68]

Where you think you're swimmin' off to with that hook buried in your jaw? :evil:

[AussieTH]

Tut tut Ratty - do not even need bait around here - how have you survived for so long?

[Ratdog68]

no bait needed. :evil: Don't even need to "snag" sometimes... just drop the hook and wait for sumpin' to run with it. :D But, hey... I expect to get it just as much. Banter is a good thing. The company here sure beats anything on network TV !! :cool: It should be common knowledge by now... take half of what I say with a grain of salt... and just toss the rest of it.

[John-Melb]

I remember once, many years ago setting up at the range to discover I had brought 1 x .38 revolver...................... and 350 rounds of 9mm.

[Shultzhaus]

Goucho has the same idea with the laptop bag except I had to fork over $25 at a K-mart. Does hold everything including a folder full of targets(I print my own). There is a zipper pouch that has loops for pens, but holds a row of screw drivers instead. Binoculars, ear muffs, and stapler are handy. Alas I did go to the range one time with BP stuff, and my Marlin .22 and forgot the .22 ammo. Moral of the story is, take more than one gun, at least you might have the right stuff for one of them.

[bigbadgun]

Last trip to Arizona packed my Walker and '58 got to Phoenix
stopped at Sportsmans Warehouse purchased everything but Caps.
Will my brother lives about an hour and a half out side of Phoenix.
We wanted to go shooting that afternoon. Will back in the truck for a 3 hour ride to go by a $5 tin of caps.. Now my brother keeps stuff in stock for my stupid self.ROFL

[Voodoochile]

I've been known to bring my rifle & forget something to load it with like Patch & Ball.

[sackettboys]

I had taken my ar15 out to the range, inserted the magazine, racked back the bolt and it stuck in the open position. Yep, I had forgotten to put the buffer spring back in when I cleaned it.

[4v50 Gary]

Done the same and bummed caps off of friends.

[Shultzhaus]

From reading all these replies about something we have all done in silly forgetfulness. Unless I missed something, the good news seems to be, that nobody got hurt. Safety first still reigns.

[mykeal]

How could anyone get hurt? Nobody could shoot their guns!!!:evil::D

[arcticap]

And then..................guess who FORGOT his percussion caps

And no one had some hairspray and a cigarette lighter? :neener:

[BCRider]

How could anyone get hurt? Nobody could shoot their guns!!!:evil::D

That made me just about spit my dinner wine onto the monitor! ! ! ! ! BAD MYKEAL, BAD! ROFLMAO ! ! ! ! !

[Matt-J2]

I suppose it depends on whether I not I had wandered around asking random strangers if they'd seen my nipples. Coulda been hurt that way. :D

[4v50 Gary]

And no one had some hairspray and a cigarette lighter?

It's easier with a flintlock that it is with a percussion cap. Flame-thrower ignition system. Apart from charred wood, burnt fingers and singed eyelashes, it should work. :D

[Oldfalguy]

I don't feel so alone anymore!!!!!!!!!:D
Thanks Fellas

At least I really did forget the caps at home and not just unable to find them in my case (that would truly been worse)

[1-12 INF (M)]

Just last week I loaded up all my brand new (to me) musket stuff out to the range, only to learn (in front of two friends) #11 caps aren't musket caps. Not even close.

[kBob]

1974.

My fireteam leader discovered that BP revolvers were not controlled in Germany at that time. He got an 1851 Coltclone in .36 and asked me what else we needed besides the gun. Two days later we were to do our occassional daylight patrol of the local dump to make sure nothing improper was being tossed (The Artillery and Engineers on that Pershing Combat Alert Site frequently failed to properly dispose of documents.) Besides checking the dump we took the oppertunity to war with the rats that infested the place. We had used air guns sling shots BFRs and smuggled M193 ball to send rats on to the great beyound. Ah now we would have boom and smoke!

When we got to the dump, I asked Ray if he bought everything I told him to and he happily answered yes and handed me the revolver. To be honest I didn't know much more than he but when he handed me a strofoam tray with .36 sized BP pellets in it I happily dropped them in the revolver (guy at the store said loose powder was controled like modern ammunition but pellets were not, go figure) then seated a lube heavy ball in each chamber. The action of the ram spread the waxy lube aroound. Then I asked him for the caps and he handed me a roll of kidde cap pistol caps.

Now if he had bought an original M1855 Springfield........

I think I saw one of the rats laughing.

Of course he had no nipple wrench and amazingly there was not one in the company armorer's kit. I did eventually get the nipples out and the now cruched and loose powder poured out and pushed out the balls with a large nail.

-Bob Hollingsworth

[reverendfranz]

sounds like you forgot to tell him to buy a Tap-o-cap too, then you would have been in business.

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=351665

[arcticap]

Then I asked him for the caps and he handed me a roll of kidde cap pistol caps.


I had some German paper roll caps once and they were extra loud but the paper backing was double thick which made them very hard to set off with the kiddie pistol.
But just last week I was rummaging through a box that had the kid's cap pistols in it and lo and behold I found 2 sealed packages with boxes of roll caps that were made in Canada and not China! Who would have ever thought that Canadian made roll caps would be a thing of the past. Nosireebob, nosiree! :rolleyes:

[BCRider]

Oh Lordy... now you guys got me thinking about the cap gun I had as a kid!