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1861 CVA Navy Pistol?
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PreserveFreedom
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Mine takes #11. They are also way more common so that would be your best bet.
Jeb:
If you buy the #11 caps and they are loose on the nipple you can pinch the open end of them a bit with your fingers to make them out of round.
This will make them stay on the nipple.
You can use any black powder or synthetic black powder in your gun and it will need .375 diameter lead balls.
If you buy the #11 caps and they are loose on the nipple you can pinch the open end of them a bit with your fingers to make them out of round.
This will make them stay on the nipple.
You can use any black powder or synthetic black powder in your gun and it will need .375 diameter lead balls.
PreserveFreedom
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Well it is always possible it takes #10 caps, but #11 are more common. If it is meant for #10, #11 pinched will work. If you have a micrometer and can measure the outer diameter of the top of a nipple we can be sure.
Jeb.
The #10 caps may work fine and if they do then use them.
If they seem to hang up and not seat properly then the #11's would be the way to go.
With either of these caps a good indication that they are not fully seating is when the hammer falls and the cap doesn't fire. Then, when the same cap is again hit by the hammer and it fires.
What is happening when that happens is the hammer is pounding the cap down on the nipple where it should have been when you placed it on the nipple. Then, the second hammer blow fires it.
There are no hard and fast rules that define the size of the caps or the size of the nipples so each company seems to make their best guess as to the correct size and then produce it.
That is why folks will talk about CCI or Remington or Winchester or Dynamite Nobel caps working while others caps don't.
It's just something that each of us has to work out for our own guns.
The #10 caps may work fine and if they do then use them.
If they seem to hang up and not seat properly then the #11's would be the way to go.
With either of these caps a good indication that they are not fully seating is when the hammer falls and the cap doesn't fire. Then, when the same cap is again hit by the hammer and it fires.
What is happening when that happens is the hammer is pounding the cap down on the nipple where it should have been when you placed it on the nipple. Then, the second hammer blow fires it.
There are no hard and fast rules that define the size of the caps or the size of the nipples so each company seems to make their best guess as to the correct size and then produce it.
That is why folks will talk about CCI or Remington or Winchester or Dynamite Nobel caps working while others caps don't.
It's just something that each of us has to work out for our own guns.
