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So much has been said on here about caps falling off, caps having to be pushed
on with a stick, caps just won't fit ect. In the 50 years I have been shooting
these revolvers, I have never had a cap problem. I had learned 50 years ago
that you fit your nipple to the cap. Not the other way around. Choose a cap that
is easy to get and fit your nipples to it. No matter what the size. At the time
I could get RWS 1075 cheap 24.00 a thousand so I put the nipples in a drill
press and turned and then polished them so the cap was just a sliding fit without
falling off. We all did this back then. No problem. Later when RWS got too expensive , I changed to CCI No. 11 standard cap. I had to slightly change the
nipples to fit these caps. People wonder about mis-fires. The anvil on the nipple
should look like the ones I have done here. I just use a drill bit. Caps fire every
time even with weak main springs. I would rather spend my time shooting than
messing around with nipples, arbors, what kind of lube on wads, which are a joke themselves, and all the other things you can find to mess with. If you look
hard enough you can find something wrong with anything and start messing with
it. Me, I would rather be shooting, trying to improve on that, not messing with
my gun all the time.
Regular CCI No. 11 cap
on with a stick, caps just won't fit ect. In the 50 years I have been shooting
these revolvers, I have never had a cap problem. I had learned 50 years ago
that you fit your nipple to the cap. Not the other way around. Choose a cap that
is easy to get and fit your nipples to it. No matter what the size. At the time
I could get RWS 1075 cheap 24.00 a thousand so I put the nipples in a drill
press and turned and then polished them so the cap was just a sliding fit without
falling off. We all did this back then. No problem. Later when RWS got too expensive , I changed to CCI No. 11 standard cap. I had to slightly change the
nipples to fit these caps. People wonder about mis-fires. The anvil on the nipple
should look like the ones I have done here. I just use a drill bit. Caps fire every
time even with weak main springs. I would rather spend my time shooting than
messing around with nipples, arbors, what kind of lube on wads, which are a joke themselves, and all the other things you can find to mess with. If you look
hard enough you can find something wrong with anything and start messing with
it. Me, I would rather be shooting, trying to improve on that, not messing with
my gun all the time.
Regular CCI No. 11 cap