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I use one, I also have some homemade leather cappers. I have also gone hunting and to the range without using one. Just keeping them in the tin.
 
Capper can be nice but most are just as a PITA to load as much as just putting them on out of a tin. I like my 100 cap capper but the caps can tip on their side in it and make me want to dump it in the nearest trash can.
 
I use an inline capper. Much easier than digging them out of a tin in the field. I wouldn’t wanna be without one when I’m hunting. At the range though, digging out of a tin isn’t that big of a deal.
 
I use an inline capper when hunting that hangs on a leather cord around my neck. When target shooting just use them from the tin.
 
Someone on here, I don't remember who, posted about his grandfather shaking caps out of a tin with a hole in the lid. I tried it and it works pretty well. I just kept making the hole a little larger until they would usually come out one at a time. When I get two I just drop one back in. If the tin is less than half full there is hardly ever an escapee into my bag.
 
I broke down and bought one of the snail shaped cappers and it's the biggest piece of manure I've ever had the displeasure of using. Junk. The straight lines are only marginally better. When at a range I just dump some caps on a table and load singly from there. If I was hunting I don't really know what I'd do about caps.
 
The Straight line cappers that I have work pretty well and just save me time when hunting. I plan on getting a couple loading blocks for my guns as well to help speed things up when squirrel hunting this fall.
 
Who here uses a capper as an accessory to your Hawken or other percussion long gun ? If not a capper what do you use to organize your percussion caps in your hunting pouch or hunting bag ?
The only thing I've ever done is keep a small quantity in the bottom of a pocket when hunting. I can't believe I'm the only one who does this.
 
I have one of the Ted Cash oval cappers that holds about 80 caps. If you pour about 50 caps into it and gently shake from side to side, most of the caps will orient themselves correctly. That capper works fine on my cap lock rifles whether drum and nipple or a snail breech. I also have one of the brass snail cappers, but I prefer the oval one for the rifles. I have also made a capper from a scrap of thick leather cut in a half circle with holes punched for the caps. I cut a slit in to the holes to allow the caps to be installed and released on the nipple. Good for my rifles and single shot cap lock pistols.
 
What's a star capper ?

Not being sarcastic but it's a capper that has arms radiating outwards from a central cap storage area. Each arm holds a single cap and is easy to put onto a nipple. It's made of plastic.
 
Here are the cappers I use, both work fine and hold I'm guessing 80 - 100 #11 caps each. Load once and shoot a long time before having to reload. I hang them on outside of bag when shooting, store them inside when not shooting.
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