Revolver paper cartridges with caps

[snubnose57]

If I remember correctly, did not some boxes come with caps also?
Were these caps enclosed in a paper tube back then? Cannot remember now, but I think I saw a You Tube video of someone capping his revolver from such a tube.
Thoughts, anyone?

 

[Mean Gene]

I'm not sure what video I saw it in when I was researching paper cartridges I watched all that were out there. I remember seeing in one I think it was on cap and ball (you tube) that in the original cartridge boxes caps were included. I think they were just wrapped up and included.

 

[hawkeye2]

Some folks place a cap in each end of a short length of aquarium tubing to put the caps on with. I have never tried it but it sounds like it should work well. Original packets of 6 rounds often contained 6 or 7 caps but not in a tube.

 

[crockett]

Yes. SOME of the DC Sage combustible cartridges had a 7th hole in the block that contained the caps. Colt and all the other manufacturers- to the best of my knowledge- didn't include caps. The DC Sage box was a mono-block or single piece of wood- about the size of a deck of cards with six blind holes drilled into one side (or 7th if caps). Like the Colt, there was a paper wrapping (shellacked) over the entire box and a pull string. I think Colt had wire and Sage had string. You yanked the string and that ripped open the area over the holes and you dumped the rounds into your hands.
There is a lot of information on these cartridges, I think Terry White of Gettysburg, PA has written several books. You should find plenty on the internet.
And....on the paper tube? I don't think there was any. All I've ever seen is an x-ray of an original DC Sage box with the 7th hole containing caps and it looks like the caps are loose- no paper tube. The references I cited probably have all the details.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Check out the capnball channel
He has lots of great videos.
https://youtu.be/-2HUcfAyaaQ