Recent content by Randy Lee Miles

absolutely right. thanks to your good memory and the sharing of same.

I bought both #10 and # 11 and the tens stayon my pietta .44 better. I lost a couple 11s and the hammer fell on a bare nipple. *** is going on?

I ended up tripling the loads in the toy caps and got ignition but there was a lag between cap going and then the charge. Not as much as flintlock but a lag that could be crucial. Glad I found the CCIs.

I am a novice and have nothing to offer at this point but I find this all very enlightening. I want to extend thanks to those whose wisdom I will pilfer as often as possible.

@ hullraiser... are you looking??

I finally found #10s and #11s locally and promptly bought all I could and will be back to get them all. Perseverance

I haven't gotten any fffg yet, but I'm off to see the wizard today so I can test the new cap loads. I got five out of six to go off using pyrodex and hope the fffg will get me to 100%. This is my only option for self protection since I got drunk and into trouble a year out of high school in...

I wonder how long folks are going to blame Obama for all the wrongs brought on by the last ....oh.....several white administrations. Seriously folks, start doin your own research and stop listening to the idiots that want to keep the rich rich, and the poor their oppressed slave labor force.

The charge does go off in the caps or rolls if using metal tools on dry caps were but no problem for me when I wet with a scant drop of alcohol first.

# 11 s I found that by putting a scant drop of alcohol (I'm using 190 proof) into the plastic caps the charge turns into a gel that can be removed with a nut pick and added to a cap already containing a charge thereby doubling it, and tripling if necessary. After adding extra charge work the...

After reading a few posts here and being the owner of a new 44 navy BP pistol,and being unable to find # 11 percussion caps, I had to try the plastic ring caps. I found them lacking the necessary crack to ignite the charge. However after adding a german made strip cap to the plastic ring caps...