New to BP revolvers.. What took me so long?

[jstein650]

The only BP gun I've ever owned is a Wal-Mart special CVA inline, scoped. Purely utilitarian - got me two more weeks of deer season, for which it has performed admirably in every sense. Just got the bug for a revolver, as the more I thought about it, the more fun it sounded. Have an 1858 steel frame 'New Army' .44 by Euroarms on the way.
I was perusing some threads on percussion caps the other day, and noticed a passing reference to large pistol primers in the discussion. Seems caps have become hard to come by these days. I have some No. 11's in my stash from somewhere (?) so I haven't even tried to buy any yet. Anyway I also have a pretty well wrecked 1860 Colt Pietta (given to me). Curious, I pulled the anvil from a LPP and stuck it on a nipple. It fit. Pulled the trigger - it fired. Also reset the hammer! My question: has anyone out there done this in a pinch? I guess I wouldn't really want a BP gun to go full auto; or maybe semi auto with the trigger still pulled... still, maybe cap one at a time?

 

[zimmerstutzen]

Hammer rebound is dangerous
Too much power.

 

[Crawdad1]

The innerds of the nipple should be shaped like a cone with the larger hole on top and the smaller hole on bottom resting in the chamber to direct or funnel the fire from the nipple into the chamber. The bottom hole of you nipple may be too large and allowing the blowback. But, be that as it may, the hammer shouldn't blowback.

 

[jstein650]

This was just a test fire, using a wrecked gun that I had to half hold together - main spring and trigger there, plunger and hand assembly gone - I think the nipple geometry is fine. No powder charge. I repeated the experiment tonight, and it didn't blow back the hammer...
When my Remmy comes in this week, I may try some LPP's just to see what happens. No powder, of course, unless all else seems fine.

 

[Crawdad1]

Oh, I get it. Please disregard my comment and carry on.

Keep us up to date on how your Remmy shoots.