# 10 Percussion caps for BP Pistol?

[sussexmuzllodr]

Can a video be produced showing a chain fire due to pinched caps on a cap and ball revolver. Just asking...thats all....

 

[CaptainKirk]

I am not all sure a #11 pinched to allow it to remain on a cone would lead to a chain fire. If that’s ones own experience on a particular revolver then by all means don’t do it. I’ve gone thru numerous thousands of
#11caps, Remingtons and CC’s on revolvers from the 1862 Police, the Navies, the Armies, a Walker, ROA’s Rogers and Spencers, an G and G and a Spiller Burr and a revolving carbine.
I did experience a chain fire just last week on the Remington Revolving Carbine. The #11 on one of the cones fell off, I hadn’t pinched it.
But that’s just me and my guns.

I don't think it's the pinching of the skirt as much as it is the pinched cap falling off and leaving an open nipple to a charged chamber.

 

[Tenring]

I am NOT CONVINCED that chain fires come from pinched caps.