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    Nipples & Caps

    I am very new to this hobbie and one thing I noticed right away with mine, which was a pawn shop, was the nipple had mushroomed. After many hours of reading and learning I read the worst thing you can do is dry fire a percussion cap revolver because it will mushroom the nipples. I think a lot...
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    Percussion caps

    I've seen these at Sportsman's warehouse. I got them on a whim they weren't $10 I forget but I wanna say they were lik $6.99. Anyway I couldn't get #10 to fit on my Pietta 1851 and fire the first shot would seat them the second would fire it so I tried these and during test fires with no loads...
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    Newbie With Revolver Cylinder Rotation Problem. Help!

    Funny I bought an 1851 pietta at the pawn shop a couple months ago and read up, took it completely apart cleaned it up real good, it was trashed. It spun freely at half cock(not a spin but moved) locked where it should at full, had to sand the nipples. I finally went and shot it yesterday...
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    New Member? Introduce yourself here (just intros, questions get answered elsewhere)

    Hi I'm new from Colorado, Military and very family oriented. I'm just now learning to reload my own rounds and have only done 10 good ones and two bad ones so far. Haven't had a chance to shoot them yet. I have a lot to learn and not much to offer, yet. I have skills in other areas and...
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