If you use a quality nipple in the first place - you don't have that issue.
I do not have that issue on either one of my Italian revolvers.
Please explain the "confusion" part of your statement.....
AND - what does that have to do with making the firearm safer???
Crimping a cap while loaded on a nipple would be a safety issue -
I have never been "confused" by a misfire.
Greetings,
in answer to your questions;
I'm speaking from the viewpoint of a gentleman shooter Living in leafy Surrey, England.
A world very different from the American shooter who perhaps has very different laws and restrictions not withstanding a total lack of caps, powders and other basic shooting items others take for granted. Let me explain...
You see, firstly in the Uk (post 1997 cartridge pistol ban), the only pistols/ revolvers we can shoot at a sensible barrel length (under 16inches) are muzzleloaders, which are exempt. This has many pros, and cons..the cons are that they are without saying, more high maintenance than say a cartridge nitro revolver, but, this aside because i just wish to answer your initial questions...
The cons are there are few ranges nationally where we can shoot these, and few guns shops that carry black powder or even the substitue black powders, caps are also very random and often a brand that you had singled out for use will then not be in stock for months maybe even a year because our pistol market is roughly at the last count just under 5,000 people out of a population of 67million, again, don't quote me on that , the Uk is ever expanding, ie more peope than there are actully houses.
The other problem is the guns...The revolvers we can get for under £400 are often lower range italian copies, none of which are well machined and often require a lot of gun smithing, they lye in the realm of the hobbyiest or shooter enthusiast who is like me prepared to either rebuild it or modify it, that is to say to slick it up and add improvements to it, be it asthetical or mechanical. then you have the medium range, things like modern Tauruses or Alpha Proj's with elongated barrels. Then the top end like a Westlake conversion or a straight Colt or Smith and wesson which start at £1000 and end up to £3,000 depending on what disipline of shooting you are doing and how much you want to pay etc...Most will have over a foot long bareel to them and some kind of shooting brace...
Which leads me to my nipple idea...Basically there were two things that needed adressing for my average ML guns, since Piettas do vary a lot in tolerances for both the guns the internal parts and yes the nipples too. Also along with this the width of the caps and diameters have variation in them too, hence my idea for a universal nipple which can take any cap regardless of the make, since i cannot guarantee that one cap i buy will be as good a fit as another.
The caps I would recomend for a Pietta remington standard blued 1858 model .36cal Navy with a 6.5"barrel and factory nipples would be the Long RWS 1055 brand they are excellent, but usually all i can get hold of is cci 10's 11's and remington 10's which also aften would get thrown from the gun with recoil. My idea allows any cap to be molded on with crimp pliers and stay on until all 6 chambers have been fired, which for me, is a huge leap in reliabiliy and safety, because chain fires can happen from the back of the cylinder when an arked spark from a cap thats detonated can in theory jump to a bare nipple which has thrown its cap....which in itself is anoying as you might only get two shots off the other have all been thrown onto the floor, like i said unsafe, unreliable and more than frustrating if you expect all 6 to go off. My idea illiminates this.
The confusion bit, and i'm sorry if you were confused by this...Purely was a loose social reference to the fact that at our National Shooting centre at Bisley NRA there are a breed of RCO'S who take great sadistic pleasure in pointing out whether a shooters weapon in their eyes is "manure" or not....Which is not sportsmanlike, or polite, and actually causes shooter anxiety where the sportman literally looses his nerve or composure after one misfire after another and having to obey the usual 30second rule, thus adding to "confusion" from the shooter who then has the stress of a) clearing a live gun or partilly fired gun infront of a waiting audience, and b) having to peer down a partially loaded gun to assertain which chambers need re-capping, again with my idea this just illiminates this from happening. Lastly caps whether they are by CCI, Remington, or RWS will not explode unless the head of the cap is hit... so pinching a cap or in my case denting a cap onto a groove in my cones will not cause a premature combustion and therefore is safe.
Lastly, in conclusion, what I do with my gun may inspire others or not, i don't care either way, i'm not gaining anything from this post, or my invention, its purely my own novel opinion, if you don't like my idea, thats fine, but don't dismiss something you havn't even tried.
Yours Cordially,
Roxdale.