12 ga snap caps - advice and Canadian Source?

I'm not a big fan of the homemade snap caps. Even if they are cut off at the base they look like live shells when they are in breach of an open sxs or o/u. You might know they are snap caps but the sight of the brass in the chamber can be unsettling to other shooters whether in the field or at the club.

I like the A-Zoom caps and have several of them but I use them only for dry firing. When I store the gun I release the triggers using a block of wood held against the breach face (gun broken down.) Then the gun is then reassembled and put in the safe.
 
I've had a problem with the plastic ones too: they are too light (and/or short) and they manage to get caught vertically in my 3.5in BPS from time to time. I'm either going to make them longer or weight them down so they don't flip around anymore...
 
i have a set of brass ones ... they don't feed worth a damned

Do what i said use 209 primers and make a copy of your round load exactly as you would use a similar weighted mesure of sand an exact copy of your normal loads besure to lable them as dommys

if you want and you know a machinist have a plug machined to the same size as a 209 primer slighly longer the shell with a taper lubricate it as you would with a bedding job make a few a steel rod is cheep you might want a spair

fill with resin to the exact lenth of your loadthen wait till it hardens remove it then either chcuk it in a lathe and widen the opening so you can decap it

then throw the snap cap in and walla training round that is easaly identifyable to you that if it fails you pop the old snap cap out and put a new one in

two options that are pretty easy to make

the plastic ones break from all accounts and any rapid loading drills will require that and machined one's are two heavy to feed some timesand often don't feed wehn the lifter falls
 
curtmg said:
I've got the clear pastic ones, if you plan on using them a lot, I don't recommend them. Mine are chewed up pretty bad. They've gone through the gun and onto the floor at least 500 times each though (was a long 3 weeks waiting for range membership). If you use them less than that, should be fine though.
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I had some plastic ones that I was using to verify that I'd dremeled (is that a word?) enough material off the internal magazine bulges in my 870. After a few cycles, I realized that the brittle plastic was getting shredded by the feed mechanism-especially the rim. Not a recipe for accurately simulating a shotgun roundI've since bought the metal ones (red anodized aluminum) and they seem pretty skookum so far.
 
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