Ruger Old Army Shotgun Primer Conversion

[tacfoley]

The charges need to be reduced because of the additional pressure created by the shotgun primer over a percussion cap. I have been told that the primer alone is enough to send a ball down the barrel with no powder at all.

I want to try them because they keep the back end of the gun cleaner, no flash back through the nipple with cakes the hammer up with crud and finds it’s way down into the mechanism. The added sweetener is a shotgun primer costs half what a percussion cap does.

Cheers
Greg

Thanks for the explication.