Caps falling into mechanism

[Micah Clark]

That's an impressive report.


Thanks on the slixshot info.

 

[M. De Land]

The thing I never liked about that approach though is the purposeful disabling of a safety system engineered into the revolver so that all six chambers could be carried while charged.
As others have stated, there did not seem to be a cap sucking issue with first generation guns.

 

[jaxenro]

Goon fit a post to a few of mine that holds the spent cap on the cone

What he does to the action is a joy to behold

 

[Flintlock_bob]

One thing I do is when I cock the pistol (1860 Colt replica) is tilt the pistol a little to the right as I cock it. Maybe 30 degrees. If the spent cap falls loose as many of them do it is less likely to drop down into the action. There have been several other threads here giving other modifications people do to the Colts especially to help prevent the problem. You may not want to do that to a 2nd generation as most folks were modifying replicas.

I too rotate the gun to the right but full over about 90*, very rarely have a cap jamb.

 

[Flash Pan Dan]

Further update, I replaced the Tresco nipples with the Pietta factory nipples and fired 36 shots using 38 grains of 2fg with both round ball and 220 grain Lee bullets. And again no cap jams at all. I was surprised by this even though Duelist1954 does the same thing in his video. I thought for sure those warthog bullet loads would blow the caps apart and jam them, but no, all functioned flawlessly. I think I just saved myself $36 plus shipping on a set of Slixshot nipples.