Remington #10 cap quality

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Hi all, I recently acquired a Thompson/Center Seneca in 36cal. It's been a while since I used BP, but still have a revolver in 36cal. When I was looking through my stash for supplies to use in the Seneca, I found my stash for the revolver. In it was a nearly full tin of #10 caps. When I opened the tin to see how many caps were left, I noticed that a number of the caps were missing the charge. I looked at all of them & found that 9 had no charge. None of the missing charges are in the tin either.

Is this normal? I do seem to recall a lot of miss-fires when i last used the revolver.. Now I want to get it back out & see if it is perhaps more reliable than I remember...
 
If they are coming apart like that you might just want to toss them or use only for blowing the channel clear before loading.
Before you go pick up more check if they fit on the Seneca. Most rifles take #11 but on a small gun like that you might get lucky and only need to stock #10 for both.
 
Interesting. I always look for Remington caps. They work best on my Uberti made Remington 1858. I find 100% reliability. Other makes of caps seem to be too hard. Often I would have to go through the cylinder twice, hitting each cap twice. With remingtons, no problem.

Kevin
 
kevinasch said:
Interesting. I always look for Remington caps. They work best on my Uberti made Remington 1858. I find 100% reliability. Other makes of caps seem to be too hard. Often I would have to go through the cylinder twice, hitting each cap twice. With remingtons, no problem.
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I have always disliked Remington #11 caps because they did not split when my rifle was fired; that made them a nuisance to remove from the nipple. I only ever recall seeing the detonating compound come out of a cap and I suspect it was probably a CCI because that was what I used most of

cheers mooncoon
 
kevinasch said:
Interesting. I always look for Remington caps. They work best on my Uberti made Remington 1858. I find 100% reliability. Other makes of caps seem to be too hard. Often I would have to go through the cylinder twice, hitting each cap twice. With remingtons, no problem.

Kevin
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This has been my experience also.
 
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