mossback said:
Where can I find the RWS 1075 at online? Is the T/C firestorm nipples any good in #11 or musket cap. The last hang fires I had were with cci musket caps...For some reason I thought that #11 were better. I have a hot shot nipple #11 on the way also. I don't know if this is ok, can I mix say 10g of Swiss in with my Pyrodex P or is that a no-no??? I would rather my gun go off and miss than to hang up again!!!!!!!Nightmares
CCI makes two kinds of caps they make a standard and a magnum. The CCI standard caps do not work real well for me. Their magnum caps on the other hand work real well. They Dynamite Noble are getting hard to find. The last time I came across them I bought 20 tins of them.
The #11 caps and the musket caps throw approximately the same flame temperature into the breech although the muskets throw a little bit more flame. Still a good powder and a #11 cap is all I use in most my inline rifles.
Can you duplex Pyrodex P... yep sure can. Dump 10-20 grains of Swiss, and tap the butt of the rifle on your shoe to level the load, then adjust your Pyrodex for the fact you have black powder in there, and load accordingly. Test a few loads on the range. You will see they work just fine. But normally if you prepare that rifle, they go off.
That hot shot nipple you have on the way should work just fine if the threads match up. If it was for a Knight or T/C it will work just fine in the breech plug.
Before you shoot your rifle next time, take a patch and lightly dampen it with isopropyl alcohol 91%. Now swab the oil out of the bore. After that, take a dry patch and swab the bore. With a dry patch still on the jag, push that down on an empty breech and put a #11 cap on the nipple and fire that off. Pull the patch and check it. There should be a burn mark on it. If not, put a new patch on and do the same thing. Normally by the second time, the breech is cleared and it will show burn marks on the patch the second time around.
Once you have burn marks on the patch, pop one more #11 cap. This carbons the plug. Now load your Pyrodex P and try that. I've hunted all day with it and never had a problem. A #11 cap is a lot more water proof then you might think. If you have to sit in the woods, put a small piece of plastic over the open breech to shed any water or snow away from that area. Over the muzzle, you can put a ballon, a muzzle mit, or a finger cot over the end of the barrel to keep any water out from that end. Also you can shoot right through that.
If you have a dry rifle to start with, and you load on a dry rifle and hunt all day with a dry rifle, there is no reason it should not go off...