Who makes good 12 GA snap-caps?

I had some plastic snap caps from Pachmayer with the spring loaded firing pin cushions. The cushioned brass firing pin part worked great but the strong ejectors on my over and under shotguns eventually broke the rims off.
I've got the Azoom aluminum snap caps and they have held up well but the primer cushuion is not spring loaded so after a while (as a previous poster mentioned) the primer cusions don't do they're job any more. I've gotten to the point where on my sporting clays gun I just drop the trigger asembly out and ease the hammers down by hand now if the gun isn't going to be used for a few days.

I'm seriously thinking of drilling out the Azoom snapcaps from the primer pocket hole through to the end, putting in a brass plug followed by a spring and threading a steel plug in from thye muzzle end to hold everything together, one of those cold weather tinkering projects.
 
Never came across a snap cap that would stand up to repeated ejections, no matter what the material they were made from. Plastic or metal, the rims always get wrecked and before long they won't work properly. 870s for instance are very sensitive to slight amounts of that kind of damage. Barring some version I haven't been lucky enough to encounter, shotgun snap caps are made to allow the safe relaxing of a shotgun's internal springs with no damage to the firing pins. They say the dry firing of modern guns no longer poses a risk to gun components but to that I say I'll use snap caps anyway.
 
You do....punch the primers out of some empty hulls and fill the primer hole with automotive silicone. My wife and I use them for trap practice drills with our Terry Jordan Wall Chart and fire them so to speak thousands of times w/o issues.
 
I'll add this to the discusion, if you have your shotgun cased and in your vehicle, make sure you take the snap caps out while on the road. If you get pulled over and the cop inspects your firearm they may not know what snap caps are and nail you with having a loaded gun! Same thing if your traveling by air, the agent checking your luggage may think it's loaded too.
 
Falconflyer said:
I'll add this to the discusion, if you have your shotgun cased and in your vehicle, make sure you take the snap caps out while on the road. If you get pulled over and the cop inspects your firearm they may not know what snap caps are and nail you with having a loaded gun! Same thing if your traveling by air, the agent checking your luggage may think it's loaded too.
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Man, that's scary if cops don't know the difference between snap caps and regular rounds.

I just always keep a chamber flag in the guns when they are not in use, whether it is at the range, travelling, in the safe, etc.
 
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