are roll caps coming back?

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Was shopping in the local HEB (food store) and walked by the toys on one isle, was a cap gun there, looked closer, they had ROLL caps! I bought a card. My tapo-o-cap is in storage as we're about to close on a house in the boonies, but soon as I find it......:D

I had NOT seen roll caps for sale in some time. I hope it's a trend.
 
I read that, in a pinch, the older do-it-yourselfers would place a cap from a roll inside a piece of thick aluminum foil and swage it on the nipple when they didn't have percussion caps.
 
I have some roll caps and a Tap o' Cap just in case I run out of those copper ones. Roll caps were every popular when I was a kid. Who didn't want to run around like Roy Rogers or some G-Man?
 
I read that, in a pinch, the older do-it-yourselfers would place a cap from a roll inside a piece of thick aluminum foil and swage it on the nipple when they didn't have percussion caps.
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Pretty much the tap-o-cap function. You stamp your cap bodies out of aluminum cans you cut into strips for the process, punch out about 3 roll cap centers and put 'em in the body you made. They work GREAT in revolvers, but are a little weak for a side lock percussion gun loaded with a substitute. One can always help it along by pulling the nipple and dribbling some pyrodex under it, though, I mean, in a pinch....:D

http://www.midwayusa.com/product/842064/forster-tap-o-cap-11-percusion-cap-maker
 
I'm with you MC , it would be a great trend.
Man those were some good times and I wouldn't mind reliving a few of them.
 
Yeah, we shot at each other with roll fed cap guns all the time because we knew the difference between toy guns and real guns. The bedwetters around here will have a cow when they read this thread......
 
On the way to the range yesterday I grabbed a pack of roll caps from my local Safeway, they're a fun toy from my childhood that I will always remember fondly! :)

I took the rolls of caps and did some cool stuff with them. When they take a .44 bullet from my Remington (or one of my 365 grain conicals they really blow up nice!
They also blew up when I put a .22 short through them, that was a lovely surprise! I was using CB shorts and I could hear them explode!

Roll caps are too much fun, I need to buy more of them.

Levi
 
Our local Tractor Supply has roll caps in the kid's Christmas gifts area. They were German made. Saw them last saturday while buying new bands for our slingshots. BTW the Daisy bands are working so far on a twenty year old folding wrist rocket which looks a whole lot like the Daisy with wrist brace.

Saw caps a few months back in Wall Mart toy section but they were Chinese which I understand do not have enough "umph" for the tap-o-cap.

Tin Foil and paper caps? This sounds like a test for yea old New Orleans Ace single shot to try.

It worked with plastic ring caps cut off individually but the plastic melted and then hardened and was a pain to clean off. I have shot plastic caps only on one of the .44 brasser '51s but not set off a charge yet.

-kBob
 
They are seriously cheap, I can get 1000 of them for $1.25 at the grocery store.
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Haha, not a bad mark up. Only $1 in 50 years.
Wow, that's agin' me huh :uhoh:
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Oh man, roll caps and a hammer! It's been a while since I tried that. I think Eisenhower was still president.

One Christmas in the 50s I got a Roy Rogers outfit and his 2 gun rig of cap guns. My little sister got the Dale Evans version. We saved our neighborhood from a lot of cattle rustlers and bank robbers with those guns. :D

Gotta get me some to try with the percussion guns.

Jeff
 
This sounds like a job for........Greenie Stickems

Man do they bring back memories, I had a Fanner 45 and an Indian Scout rolling block. Man was I cool. LOL Those little gray bullets were all over the house!
 
MAN! I remember those things.... my dad got me some when I was really little. Haven't seen them since i was 8 or 9. I used to have one like in the picture - only it was older and without the orange thingie...

Yep - when i was in elementary school the other girls played with Barbie. I played army and cowboys 'n' indians. :p
 

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Now if only someone would make a replica of the Maynard tape primer for faster reloading of the Sharps carbine replicas.....

One more item for my list, once I save up another grand.... :(
 
A whole roll? That's alright, I guess...I been known to do a whole box!
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Mmmm..that pulls from the depths of my childhood grey matter an incedent when someone, can't recall who, stood a whole box on end, ( had to do it that way to be able to hit it all with a hammer), gave it a good full swing SMACK!!! and i can see that hammer blowin back and smackin him in the face.:eek:
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It was actualy more productive, in terms of BOOM, to just hit a single roll at a time. Got far more detonation and less cap waste that way :D
 
Yep - when i was in elementary school the other girls played with Barbie. I played army and cowboys 'n' indians.
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Haha, you and my wife both Jenny. She just remarked tho that she was allways disapointed in caps because they jist didn't make enough boom. lol
 
I found a few boxes at K-Mart. Bought some, then haven't seen them again. These were made in Germany, too. Not china.

Maybe they'll return for the Christmas toy frenzy.
 
Jim - I know the feeling. I kept trying to double and triple them to make it louder. Then I got a BB gun when I was 8, and a .22 at 10, and my first .38 revolver at age 12. So much more fun!
 
Hello, everyone. When I was a kid, I couldn't wait to get into muzzleloading..I just knew that real black powder had to smell just like those toy caps:) What a surprise when I found out it was more like :cuss: rotten eggs!
 
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