Percission caps

[airgunnut]

Living in sight of Hadrian's Wall seems to be a pre-requisite for percussion cap purchase...anybody here live a tad nearer the Channel who has easy access to the bl**dy things? A guest day on our range can easily use a tinful, often more.

tac

Buying caps and black powder, yet another reason to move up north!

[tacfoley]

Buying caps and black powder, yet another reason to move up north!

Joking apart, we have a great love affair with the North of the country, and have often thought of a move North of York. I used to do a lecture/presentation to the SOCO course up at Harperly Hall near Fir Trees, and one of the joys of the journey was stopping in roadside rest-places to see the wondrous scenery. Hereabouts, of course, there is totally b*gger-all scenery, which is why the locals make so much of the 'BIG East Anglia sky....'.

Truth is, there's nothing else to see.

tac

[Rollo]

As an alternative if you are extremely patient you may be able to pickup a 2nd hand Forster Tap-O-Cap and make your own caps. They aren't made anymore and I sold mine years ago as I didn't have the patience to churn out any usable number of caps but they did work.

Its a punch/die for making the cap body out of coke cans and the ignition element out of paper roll caps for toy guns.