For storage an idea is to obtain glucose test strip containers, which are often thrown away when empty. These are very water tight to protect the unused test strips.
Nice video, valuable info! I've had good results getting plain old safety matches to go bang when wrapped in foil & hit with a hammer (not as a PC) by powdering the matchhead and scraping off just a few crumbs of striker & mixing it in. The chemistry is similar to the caps & much easier to get -- I think I'll give your method a try with matches & striker powder.
One time there was an ammo draught and then Goex went under, it was a dark time. And then Hoffman Reproductions showed us all how to get through it. Thank You Ben God Bless, and even with the current difficulties, making powder and now caps, is actually adding to the fun and enjoyment. I know it sounds crazy but maybe this will be remembered as a good thing in the end, a time we can look back on with a proud memory, a time we did not break or got forced helplessly to our knees, no it was a time we faced head on and got stronger from, you made that happen Ben, we are standing because you helped us up.
We Sir, not sure I deserve all that credit & praise, but I am grateful to be able to share what I have learned with others. You are right, this all started out of a need but it has become really enjoyable to be able to produce usable goods for black powder shooting! Thank you most kindly for your words & watching! Merry Christmas!
You wouldn't really want to get into a self defence war only armed with black powder muzzle loaders or cap and ball, however, it's still a massive upgrade on nothing at all!
Well said and thanks to all who accept the challenge of self sufficiency. It is the same spirit that pushed the forefathers (and mothers) through the hard times. Surprising how projects like this can raise your self worth as well as survival skills. Not to mention just plain fun!
@@MrOldclunker Black Powder is classified as an explosive, and it is illegal to manufacture it without the appropriate licenses from the BATF1. However, individuals do not need a manufacturer’s license if they manufacture black powder for their own personal, non-business use and the black powder produced is not a “commercial” product within the contemplation of the exemption and must be stored in compliance with the appropriate regulations2. Regardless, persons engaged in the business of importing, manufacturing, or dealing in black powder in any quantity must have a federal explosives license, and comply with recordkeeping, storage and conduct of business requirements3.
I got the kit from 22loader or whatever they're called. Took 2 months to get it. I then got sick and got into flintlocks so haven't made any, go figure. I still have one cap rifle and an 1860 Army so I guess I can make some up when I need to.
Make your own mercury fulminate or if you can find red phosphorus (old flares from WW2) make some potassium chlorate. Mix pot Chlorate, 10% phosphorus, 4% aluminium powder/ A ligh spray of varnish to fix it and that's it. I bought my punch from Dixie 20y ago..
word of the wise.... If you take any book of matches.. scrape off enough of the striker material. (red phosphorous) then crush up enough match heads to equal a 50/50 ratio.. Mix it with a tiny bit of 90% rubbing alcohol till it makes a thick paste. fill your caps with a drop and let dry. homemade percussion cap.
I tried this in my revolvers but they only worked about 20% of the time with Black Powder and almost never with Pyrodex P. I use the priming compound from .22LR Reloader but leave out the yellow Dextrin part of the mix andseal with a mixture of about 60% Acetone and 40% Duco Cement which is Nitro Cellulose Lacquer, let dry overnight . This works well with Black Powder or Pyrodex P. You can also add a tiny bit of 4f Black Powder on top of the mix before the Duco. Don't overfill or the hammer won't reach full velocity before hitting the cap. If you have trouble with the caps tearing in the forming die run a propane torch over the strips before Punching them to Anneal the Aluminum or Copper strips.
BP guns are a pretty limited "niche" market in the US, VERY LOW production volume in the grand scheme of the ammo market. So it's not that the USA can't MAKE percussion caps, there's just not enough people interested to fuel much of a market, very limited demand. So prices will spike when tons of noobs flock to BP after a wave of Democrat induced "SHTF tremors" wakes people up to the value of guns in general, but BP guns especially as the most self sufficient means of "DIY" guns if things go REALLY tits-up back to the stone age. As Ricky from Trailer Park Boys would say "Supply and command, it's basic economics!".
You might want to store your homemade caps in a Ziploc bag with some of that silica gel. those little dryer packs you get in electronics. The powder in the Caps is hydroscopic. Stored in this way they'll last almost forever
@@mikemcchesney2555me too, those things were so useful. As a teenager I’d put ten or fifteen grams of flash powder in them, a bit of fuse and those firecrackers were awesome!
So if Armstrongs mixture is used, it can be "wetted" to reduce volatility. It can also be pipetted while wet into a percussion cap blank. Then you can use a standard food dehydrator to drive off the moisture. This aids in large "batch" creation. Just a little knowledge transfer.
Thank you! I was thinking that alcohol might do the trick but it probably isn’t substantially better, evaporating alcohol attracts water so the final result might be about the same.
As a 15 year old in 63 my friends father taught me trap shooting and hand loading. He had a home made primer loader he loaned me to hand load my own primers too. I'll never forget the process, place the primer up and punch out the old primer, flip the primer over and press down the anvil Place a pistol primer over the top and press it into the brass. It saved me a little of that teenage money that I would then spend on power and shot. Once in a while I had a misfire but that got me into the habit of not flinching. This was before the one piece plastic wad too so the loading of the shell was a lot different too.
Suggestion: Drill a bunch of holes in that board, just large enough for the caps to stick a tiny bit. This should improve production speed, I believe. When they’re done, just use the pin to push them out.
Great video!! I did a video on this subject as well. You can also use strike on box matches. Grind up the heads, and using a Razer scrap some of the box( sand paper). mix very carefully. Makes great impact ignition powder. plus you get alot out of a box. But make in small batches.. Very powerful. Use rubbing alcohol in the mixture makes it easier to full caps. Dos not take much. And when the alcohol dries it works perfect... Cheers
I do a mix of the matches stacked in paper cap Oreos? going to try an acetone clear nail polish (used my fishing lure build nail polish Not my Wifes) (5:1) to try to keep it all in place for better assembly and handling. I may have also watched your content?
@@davefellhoelter1343 that's a great idea let me know how it gos please. That's the biggest problem with making them is keeping them from falling apart. And if you have seen some of my videos. Thanks i am rebuilding my original Confederate Griswold and Gunnison revolver on the channel right now.
@@snappers_antique_firearms I did try the acitone 4or5:1 with prim all compound in some lg Lg spent empty riffle caps for an exsperiment on my 1858, not totally enthused, but need more practicing.
You are so blessed to have a stream running through the woods....reminds me so much of the northern woods I grew up in! Thanks for the info on making your own caps! (Caps are currently very hard to find (June 2022)).
Ordered mine for #10 and 11 with compounds and paper caps too and Berdan priming system! I took it a step farther made my own die and anvil then ordered some copper sheeting of dif thicknesses. my modern new manufactured caps are failing at a 50% rate and have a poor fit. Link to your Powder Ingredient KIT Please! LOVE your info keep them SMOKING I was 12 in 1972 when I bult my first Rem 1858 cap n ball! Now I am getting into Flint Locks!
22lrreloader also has a primer compound that can be used instead of roll caps. A supplement video might be good although your caps seemed to work well. Good video!
I'm new to this channel and absolutely love it! Making our own bp and now percussion caps, this is what I like, to know how to make my own kit items when possible. Thank you so much for your content here. Wish I could hang out with you sometime and shoot our smokepoles or do a small bore squirrel hunt in the fall. Muddy Bear- brushy mtns NC
I've made several thousand of those caps. Tried gluing BP onto paper and inserting that in the cup. Worked but really fouled the outside of the nipple area. Came across a brass gadget that put a small amount of FFFF powder in the nipple for removing uncharged balls. A pan primer works as well. I can use Pyrodex in the rifle rather than BP as it's ungodly expensive here. Put a couple of grains in with it and rarely had a misfire using only a single cap in the cup. Not to mention the cap stayed in place and there was no exterior fouling. At nearly $0.20 for one percussion cap, these are a blessing.
That is so awesome! Keep it up! Percussion guns seem to be cheaper too. I love the level of self reliance. Your how to make powder videos were great too
If their were one thing I could own in America land of the free but with 10% usery every yr. I’d like a primer factory! I’d feel so safe and patriotic knowing I was makings viable ways to help patriotic Americans! If you’ve ever handload u know
I use kids red round snap caps for percussion caps the plastic ones for revolvers they work fine very strong and corrosive just pull the paper out. If theirs powder in em their 💯 reliable! U can see if their a dud very easy self explanatory. Still hard to find apparently kids buy em up in a hurry!!
Thanks Ben. I always find your videos entertaining as well as informative. May have to try this after I get the powder making down. Merry CHRISTmas to you and yours. Max
Really like your content since the videos are filled with alot of good information and not a bunch of irrelevant shit like so many other channels. Could you please do a video on how you antique and treat wooden knife and axe handles? Would be really helpful to see.
Thanks for the video very interesting I assembled the same CVA BP rifle many years ago, all my guns were stolen while on vacation. That rifle was very accurate at a 100 yards, enjoyed shooting it hated the clean up. LOL
When I first got into black powder shooting I tried the plastic caps made for a cap gun revolver. At first just to clear the flash hole before loading. Later I tried them for actual shooting. They worked pretty good. Obviously lower power than a real percussion cap but if its shtf days then you do whatever it takes. They are extremely corrosive. Even more so than black powder or even corrosive primers. After giving my .36 revolver what should have been a good cleaning I later found it crusted over. Had to break out the old military corrosive cleaner.
@@jamesbrill7318 if you are in a real pinch and relying on a blackpowder gun as a shtf weapon I would say you are having a very bad day. I bet if you had to you could open up paper caps and use the compound as a primer compound in a percussion cap. Dunno how to make it stuck to the inside like a factory cap. Maybe just fill the nipple with that stuff and put some foil or even tape over it. Interesting thought. Now my brain is on it. I will try and find some paper caps and test a few methods. Let you know how it works.
This is all well and good, but getting back to real basics calls to question "How to make black powder caps from full scratch?" What is the formula for the toy pop gun rolled caps, and how to make a cap without the ability to order online and get exotic materials? One day, in the near future, we could lose the power grid from a massive solar flare, and with that also all internet and phone traffic, solar power, everything will be lost. Black powder can be made off grid from scratch, but what is the best formula for the powder in a percussion cap from the 1950's?
Learning to make your own Poweder caps and balls/conicals would be priceless in the event that all hell breaks loose and grid/ internet/ everything goes down. Plan ahead folks.
Why do you keep saying the accuracy is good for the caps? The caps only ignite the powder. So, the caps don't have anything to do with accuracy. The powder, bullet and shooter, generally have the effects on accuracy. JS
Another level of self sufficiency would be to make your own cap powder (which at the moment I can't think of what it is called). It's in primers. I watched a video about a year ago where a guy made his own.
So you're using caps to make caps? I'm going to bet the original poster that asked the question was referring to 100% from scratch! Can you do that can you make percussion caps from raw materials?
Ya know what's harder to find than percussion caps? Paper caps for toy cap guns. Why doesn't someone have a video instructing us how to make the proper chemical that goes into primers and percussion caps?
Great video! I remember seeing those dies when I was a kid, in every shooting or hunting magazine. I think even “Boys Life” magazine when I was in the Cub Scouts had them. But I hadn’t seen or thought about them in the past 40 years. And certainly never actually saw one used. Very cool! And those paper caps…I can smell them in my memory! Good times. It does make me wonder if there’s not a diy chemical compounding way to make the percussion in those cut out cups, though… Anyway, Merry Christmas to you and your family, Ben, and God bless!
Thank you! Yes, that smell of the caps brings back many good memories for me too.. I believe there are a few such mixes that can be used to create the spark in the cap. I just have no information on those methods. Merry Christmas to you as well!
One day this may be the only way you'll only be able to get percussion caps. People these days have so much free time on their hands but then say this is too tedious to do but just sit around and do nothing but complain that they can't find caps?
What you want to make is mercury fulminate. There's instructions on this site how to make it. It's a bit dangerous. Basically you have to make it outdoors and be upwind of it. But you only have to mix 3 things together. Mercury, nitric acid and ethanol. Have fun.
@@gunslingerfromwish4656 one of the tricks is to just make a small batch at a time. A little bit would make a lot of primers. I think when you're first done the stuff is safe. When it dries out then you have to be careful. Silver fulminate is so unstable it can go off just under its own weight. So yeah don't try to make that.
First aluminum wasn't in wide use in cowboy days. Second if your gunna make it mist well make it right. Commercial caps are made with brass which is just as thick as your can. They don't disintegrate on detonation. In cowboy days they used a metal that was thinner and wouldn't jam the gun. Try that.
There's no need to fuss with capgun papers. Mercury Fulminate is a very simple to make. If you rinse the crystals with ice water to increase purity then dissolve it in ethanol (everclear), you can use an eye dropper or syringe to fill the caps and let id re-crystalize right in the cap, itself. For safe storage, just leave it dissolved in the ethanol and make sure to top off the ethanol whenever you start to see crystals forming in the bottom of the jar.
Had the set up to make my own caps about 20 years ago. I found that they were less powerful than the weakest commercial caps. They also do not work well with a gun that has an angle to the fire path, like a Hawken. Now for a pistol or rifle with straight path from nipple to powder it works better. It also is no good for pyrodex.
Did you ever try the make your own mix for the caps. They sell a bag of powders to make caps or 22s. I haven't tried it yet. Maybe I need to buy a second bag for a test
Instead of using those cap gun loads, use a Match Book. Crush a match head and scrape some of the striker strip into the mix. Load your cap and place a bit of toilet paper in the cap for retention.
For storage an idea is to obtain glucose test strip containers, which are often thrown away when empty. These are very water tight to protect the unused test strips.
Nice video, valuable info! I've had good results getting plain old safety matches to go bang when wrapped in foil & hit with a hammer (not as a PC) by powdering the matchhead and scraping off just a few crumbs of striker & mixing it in. The chemistry is similar to the caps & much easier to get -- I think I'll give your method a try with matches & striker powder.
One time there was an ammo draught and then Goex went under, it was a dark time. And then Hoffman Reproductions showed us all how to get through it. Thank You Ben God Bless, and even with the current difficulties, making powder and now caps, is actually adding to the fun and enjoyment. I know it sounds crazy but maybe this will be remembered as a good thing in the end, a time we can look back on with a proud memory, a time we did not break or got forced helplessly to our knees, no it was a time we faced head on and got stronger from, you made that happen Ben, we are standing because you helped us up.
We Sir, not sure I deserve all that credit & praise, but I am grateful to be able to share what I have learned with others. You are right, this all started out of a need but it has become really enjoyable to be able to produce usable goods for black powder shooting! Thank you most kindly for your words & watching! Merry Christmas!
You wouldn't really want to get into a self defence war only armed with black powder muzzle loaders or cap and ball, however, it's still a massive upgrade on nothing at all!
Well said and thanks to all who accept the challenge of self sufficiency. It is the same spirit that pushed the forefathers (and mothers) through the hard times. Surprising how projects like this can raise your self worth as well as survival skills. Not to mention just plain fun!
Making black powder is illegal in ANY amount!
@@MrOldclunker
Black Powder is classified as an explosive, and it is illegal to manufacture it without the appropriate licenses from the BATF1. However, individuals do not need a manufacturer’s license if they manufacture black powder for their own personal, non-business use and the black powder produced is not a “commercial” product within the contemplation of the exemption and must be stored in compliance with the appropriate regulations2. Regardless, persons engaged in the business of importing, manufacturing, or dealing in black powder in any quantity must have a federal explosives license, and comply with recordkeeping, storage and conduct of business requirements3.
I got the kit from 22loader or whatever they're called. Took 2 months to get it. I then got sick and got into flintlocks so haven't made any, go figure. I still have one cap rifle and an 1860 Army so I guess I can make some up when I need to.
Cool! Sounds like you'll be set!
Thank you for sharing this knowledge very kind of you sir God bless.
The instructions state to use aluminium cans not steel, made many of these caps for my BP revolvers works very well.
Yes Sir. Old pop cans is what I use.
Make your own mercury fulminate or if you can find red phosphorus (old flares from WW2) make some potassium chlorate. Mix pot Chlorate, 10% phosphorus, 4% aluminium powder/ A ligh spray of varnish to fix it and that's it. I bought my punch from Dixie 20y ago..
word of the wise.... If you take any book of matches.. scrape off enough of the striker material. (red phosphorous) then crush up enough match heads to equal a 50/50 ratio.. Mix it with a tiny bit of 90% rubbing alcohol till it makes a thick paste. fill your caps with a drop and let dry. homemade percussion cap.
Pretty cool. I’ve never heard of this before. 🇺🇸
I tried this in my revolvers but they only worked about 20% of the time with Black Powder and almost never with Pyrodex P. I use the priming compound from .22LR Reloader but leave out the yellow Dextrin part of the mix andseal with a mixture of about 60% Acetone and 40% Duco Cement which is Nitro Cellulose Lacquer, let dry overnight . This works well with Black Powder or Pyrodex P. You can also add a tiny bit of 4f Black Powder on top of the mix before the Duco. Don't overfill or the hammer won't reach full velocity before hitting the cap. If you have trouble with the caps tearing in the forming die run a propane torch over the strips before Punching them to Anneal the Aluminum or Copper strips.
Hmm... I have a 1860 colt reproduction and found these work very well. Who knows... Thank you for sharing your thoughts and method. All good!
wonder, why I didn't find your channel earlier 🤷♂
Very good and interesting topics well explained, exactly what I am looking for 👍👍
Thank ya much!
A potheads hand t press would probably work for that
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Always wondered if you could use the cap shaped toy gun caps, as a joke.
Where do you buy the roll of caps?they are impossible to buy in the UK.
With just the thumbnail without context I would think this was a torture tutorial.
wondering if it's possible to use any other material aside of metal as the cap
Yes indeed! I've see others use small rubber tubing that worked well.
good vid
Good video. !!
Thank you!
Could match heads be used ?
I have heard they work, but have never tried them myself.
Hey mate, idk if youll respond but how exactly are you supposed to make that stick?
Thank you so much for the tutorial btw you're a lifesaver
Make the paper sick in the cap shell? They fit in with just friction being a bit larger than the metal cap.
Is it possible to make rifle/pistol primers?
I know you can reload them but I have never tried it.
Great video. Seems the primary reason I haven't gotten into BP guns is that fluctuation your talking about.
Thank you! For sure.
Size number ,,11. Not for musket rifles.
No, check out our other vid on making musket sized.
USA can't make percussion caps...wow
BP guns are a pretty limited "niche" market in the US, VERY LOW production volume in the grand scheme of the ammo market. So it's not that the USA can't MAKE percussion caps, there's just not enough people interested to fuel much of a market, very limited demand. So prices will spike when tons of noobs flock to BP after a wave of Democrat induced "SHTF tremors" wakes people up to the value of guns in general, but BP guns especially as the most self sufficient means of "DIY" guns if things go REALLY tits-up back to the stone age. As Ricky from Trailer Park Boys would say "Supply and command, it's basic economics!".
We still have them, just hard to find sometimes.
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Its an instructional video. Hard to instruct without using words.
You might want to store your homemade caps in a Ziploc bag with some of that silica gel. those little dryer packs you get in electronics. The powder in the Caps is hydroscopic. Stored in this way they'll last almost forever
Thanks for sharing!
Good to know.
Plastic pill bottles are smaller, rugged and come in a variety of sizes. They are also transparent.
@@Comm0ut I MISS 35mm FILM CANISTERS!
@@mikemcchesney2555me too, those things were so useful. As a teenager I’d put ten or fifteen grams of flash powder in them, a bit of fuse and those firecrackers were awesome!
As a new person to black powder arms this helps alot due to the shortage, thanks
Thank you!
So if Armstrongs mixture is used, it can be "wetted" to reduce volatility. It can also be pipetted while wet into a percussion cap blank. Then you can use a standard food dehydrator to drive off the moisture. This aids in large "batch" creation. Just a little knowledge transfer.
Info like this is what our country needs right now. God bless you.
Thank you! I was thinking that alcohol might do the trick but it probably isn’t substantially better, evaporating alcohol attracts water so the final result might be about the same.
As a 15 year old in 63 my friends father taught me trap shooting and hand loading. He had a home made primer loader he loaned me to hand load my own primers too. I'll never forget the process, place the primer up and punch out the old primer, flip the primer over and press down the anvil Place a pistol primer over the top and press it into the brass. It saved me a little of that teenage money that I would then spend on power and shot. Once in a while I had a misfire but that got me into the habit of not flinching. This was before the one piece plastic wad too so the loading of the shell was a lot different too.
I'm shocked using Chinese toy gun caps this guy is getting any live fires.
YES discredit the inventors of black powder, they've only been producing it since the 9th century 🤡🤡🤡
Suggestion: Drill a bunch of holes in that board, just large enough for the caps to stick a tiny bit. This should improve production speed, I believe. When they’re done, just use the pin to push them out.
I believe primer shortage in political anti gun agenda. Along with other loadind components.
Great video!! I did a video on this subject as well. You can also use strike on box matches. Grind up the heads, and using a Razer scrap some of the box( sand paper). mix very carefully. Makes great impact ignition powder. plus you get alot out of a box. But make in small batches.. Very powerful. Use rubbing alcohol in the mixture makes it easier to full caps. Dos not take much. And when the alcohol dries it works perfect... Cheers
Thank you! Very cool! Thank you for sharing!
I do a mix of the matches stacked in paper cap Oreos? going to try an acetone clear nail polish (used my fishing lure build nail polish Not my Wifes) (5:1) to try to keep it all in place for better assembly and handling. I may have also watched your content?
@@davefellhoelter1343 that's a great idea let me know how it gos please. That's the biggest problem with making them is keeping them from falling apart. And if you have seen some of my videos. Thanks i am rebuilding my original Confederate Griswold and Gunnison revolver on the channel right now.
@@snappers_antique_firearms
I did try the acitone 4or5:1 with prim all compound in some lg Lg spent empty riffle caps for an exsperiment on my 1858, not totally enthused, but need more practicing.
Can you provide more detailed instruction using this method. I'd like to try it out, especially since I can't buy caps right now.
Thank you for helping out the black powder community with another educational video on being self sufficient!
Thank you Jake! Really grateful for your vids as well Sir! Merry Christmas from Ohio!
@@HoffmanReproductions merry Christmas!
In bleak times, perhaps a matchlock or a flintlock might be good investment.
Very true.
Now all we need is a video on casting round balls from scrap lead and we'll have all the ingredients for shooting.
Just make sure you use pure soft lead , not wheel weight lead . Vent stack pipes on old houses sometimes are flashed with the pure soft lead
How to make percussion caps
Step 1: Buy some percussion caps
You are so blessed to have a stream running through the woods....reminds me so much of the northern woods I grew up in! Thanks for the info on making your own caps! (Caps are currently very hard to find (June 2022)).
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you Sir. We are blessed for sure.
Good video. I've got about 10,000 caps. I'm good to go! I've had them for more 25 years and I never get a misfire. Thanks fer the video
Lol...bet the atf will be knocking on ur door soon..😏
Ordered mine for #10 and 11 with compounds and paper caps too and Berdan priming system! I took it a step farther made my own die and anvil then ordered some copper sheeting of dif thicknesses. my modern new manufactured caps are failing at a 50% rate and have a poor fit.
Link to your Powder Ingredient KIT Please!
LOVE your info keep them SMOKING I was 12 in 1972 when I bult my first Rem 1858 cap n ball! Now I am getting into Flint Locks!
22lrreloader also has a primer compound that can be used instead of roll caps. A supplement video might be good although your caps seemed to work well. Good video!
Yes Sir, saw that on their site. Was reluctant to say anything since I have never tried it though. Thanks for watching!
22 reloader primer powder is very corrosive clean you rifle good are it will be rusted the next day
You can use Armstrong's Mixture as a primer mix. You simply cover it with a tiny drop of nail polish to waterproof it.
I'm new to this channel and absolutely love it! Making our own bp and now percussion caps, this is what I like, to know how to make my own kit items when possible. Thank you so much for your content here. Wish I could hang out with you sometime and shoot our smokepoles or do a small bore squirrel hunt in the fall.
Muddy Bear- brushy mtns NC
Thank you most kindly Lynn! Glad you like the vids! Hope to meet ya one day.
I've made several thousand of those caps. Tried gluing BP onto paper and inserting that in the cup. Worked but really fouled the outside of the nipple area. Came across a brass gadget that put a small amount of FFFF powder in the nipple for removing uncharged balls. A pan primer works as well. I can use Pyrodex in the rifle rather than BP as it's ungodly expensive here. Put a couple of grains in with it and rarely had a misfire using only a single cap in the cup. Not to mention the cap stayed in place and there was no exterior fouling. At nearly $0.20 for one percussion cap, these are a blessing.
That is so awesome! Keep it up! Percussion guns seem to be cheaper too. I love the level of self reliance. Your how to make powder videos were great too
Thank you Sir!
If their were one thing I could own in America land of the free but with 10% usery every yr. I’d like a primer factory! I’d feel so safe and patriotic knowing I was makings viable ways to help patriotic Americans! If you’ve ever handload u know
Bass Pro hasn't had Precussion In 4 months.! The US government is making it Really Hard to Get These So you Will have to end up Making Your Own!
I use kids red round snap caps for percussion caps the plastic ones for revolvers they work fine very strong and corrosive just pull the paper out. If theirs powder in em their 💯 reliable! U can see if their a dud very easy self explanatory. Still hard to find apparently kids buy em up in a hurry!!
Thanks Ben. I always find your videos entertaining as well as informative. May have to try this after I get the powder making down. Merry CHRISTmas to you and yours.
Max
Thank you Max! Merry Christmas to you as well!
Really like your content since the videos are filled with alot of good information and not a bunch of irrelevant shit like so many other channels. Could you please do a video on how you antique and treat wooden knife and axe handles? Would be really helpful to see.
Thank you! Planning to do one on that subject at some point.
Thanks for the video, I have enough caps for my needs, as usual your video will help me deal with any shortage. Keep up the good work.
Great to hear! Thank you!
Thanks for the video very interesting I assembled the same CVA BP rifle many years ago, all my guns were stolen while on vacation. That rifle was very accurate at a 100 yards, enjoyed shooting it hated the clean up. LOL
When I first got into black powder shooting I tried the plastic caps made for a cap gun revolver. At first just to clear the flash hole before loading. Later I tried them for actual shooting. They worked pretty good. Obviously lower power than a real percussion cap but if its shtf days then you do whatever it takes. They are extremely corrosive. Even more so than black powder or even corrosive primers. After giving my .36 revolver what should have been a good cleaning I later found it crusted over. Had to break out the old military corrosive cleaner.
Thanks for sharing Martin!
Got a home made alternative to the paper caps?
@@jamesbrill7318 if you are in a real pinch and relying on a blackpowder gun as a shtf weapon I would say you are having a very bad day. I bet if you had to you could open up paper caps and use the compound as a primer compound in a percussion cap. Dunno how to make it stuck to the inside like a factory cap. Maybe just fill the nipple with that stuff and put some foil or even tape over it. Interesting thought. Now my brain is on it. I will try and find some paper caps and test a few methods. Let you know how it works.
if you're getting the new cap maker from 22lrreloader, you might as well get their prime-all, so you can stop fooling around with paper caps
Yes Sir, they do sell that. I was reluctant to endorse it as I have never tried it.
@@HoffmanReproductions it works, it's h48, so corrosive, but so are paper caps and black powder
Also, don't see why you can't save your caps and "recharge" them...
The caps are blown apart by back blast when the powder ignites.
i have this tool and it works great
That's alot of work. I just use the red plastic ones that fit cap gun revolvers. Just have to trim them into individual caps of course.
Does that work? I can’t find caps anywhereeeee in my area and online it’s always a minimum order of $100 and I don’t have that at the moment
@@parkerfiske4707 I use them on my 44navy reproduction. They work fine for me
I believe DGW sold a similar die back in the day…good video…
Thank you!
This is all well and good, but getting back to real basics calls to question "How to make black powder caps from full scratch?" What is the formula for the toy pop gun rolled caps, and how to make a cap without the ability to order online and get exotic materials?
One day, in the near future, we could lose the power grid from a massive solar flare, and with that also all internet and phone traffic, solar power, everything will be lost. Black powder can be made off grid from scratch, but what is the best formula for the powder in a percussion cap from the 1950's?
Learning to make your own Poweder caps and balls/conicals would be priceless in the event that all hell breaks loose and grid/ internet/ everything goes down. Plan ahead folks.
Very informative video Sir! Is there a particular brand of toy pistol paper caps that you recommend?
Thank you! These are American Western brand but not sure of the best brand for this use.
Why do you keep saying the accuracy is good for the caps? The caps only ignite the powder. So, the caps don't have anything to do with accuracy. The powder, bullet and shooter, generally have the effects on accuracy. JS
Some home made caps generate a weak and delayed ignition and thus, throw the shooter off target. These don't.
Out of curiosity, have you ever tried the liquid 22 primer material for rim fire reloading? 22 reloading sells it online too.
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Also a good way to rebuild your 209 primers for shotgun rounds..
Another level of self sufficiency would be to make your own cap powder (which at the moment I can't think of what it is called). It's in primers. I watched a video about a year ago where a guy made his own.
Match heads ground up work I've been told.
Aluminium foil +match stick head n p cap is ready why this?
Very corrosive. But I guess something is better than nothing !
coming from 2024 here, i'm going to have to make them so this video saved me a headache
Also people who can make their own powder caps and ammo could sell to others
Thanks that is certainly helpful unfo.😂
So you're using caps to make caps? I'm going to bet the original poster that asked the question was referring to 100% from scratch! Can you do that can you make percussion caps from raw materials?
There are several different ways you can make them. Made from 100% scratch? Not sure that can be done.
An if You take the lead folia that is around the bottle necks of more expensive liquors or wines? The lead is softer and more easy to modulate.
Ya know what's harder to find than percussion caps? Paper caps for toy cap guns. Why doesn't someone have a video instructing us how to make the proper chemical that goes into primers and percussion caps?
You can use match head ground up to.
I have been looking for #10s for 3 weeks....
match compound made from cigarette matches ... works for jail birds!
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With this tutorial we can make our own muskets
Great video! I remember seeing those dies when I was a kid, in every shooting or hunting magazine. I think even “Boys Life” magazine when I was in the Cub Scouts had them. But I hadn’t seen or thought about them in the past 40 years. And certainly never actually saw one used. Very cool! And those paper caps…I can smell them in my memory! Good times. It does make me wonder if there’s not a diy chemical compounding way to make the percussion in those cut out cups, though… Anyway, Merry Christmas to you and your family, Ben, and God bless!
Thank you! Yes, that smell of the caps brings back many good memories for me too.. I believe there are a few such mixes that can be used to create the spark in the cap. I just have no information on those methods. Merry Christmas to you as well!
That really is quite impressive to be honest. As an alternative, would it be possible to use 22 short blanks with the crimped end removed?
One day this may be the only way you'll only be able to get percussion caps. People these days have so much free time on their hands but then say this is too tedious to do but just sit around and do nothing but complain that they can't find caps?
Thank You! I find if I do 12 or so a day, you can generate a large amount without to much missed time.
@@HoffmanReproductions I was just saying there are people out there to lazy to do it
@@robertmartin2060 I got ya. Your right lol!
Storage with humidity control
Caps for black powder made from cap gun cap rolls? Looks interesting, I may have to try this. Thumb up for the idea and demo.
This is great. Thank you so much for sharing this information with us. Especially the shelf life information!
Welcome!
Paper caps are hard to find these days, even on ebay. Would match heads be an effective substitute?
Yes, some feel they work even better.
Informative and entertaining; thank you for posting!
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LR22 now makes a #10 cap maker.
And with this, I may now be isekai’d XD
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Any way to make bp impact sensitive? There's no caps where I live.
What you want to make is mercury fulminate. There's instructions on this site how to make it. It's a bit dangerous. Basically you have to make it outdoors and be upwind of it. But you only have to mix 3 things together. Mercury, nitric acid and ethanol. Have fun.
@@gunslingerfromwish4656 one of the tricks is to just make a small batch at a time. A little bit would make a lot of primers. I think when you're first done the stuff is safe. When it dries out then you have to be careful. Silver fulminate is so unstable it can go off just under its own weight. So yeah don't try to make that.
They would feed thru cappers also? Very neat thanks
Have not tried it one. Thanks!
First aluminum wasn't in wide use in cowboy days. Second if your gunna make it mist well make it right. Commercial caps are made with brass which is just as thick as your can. They don't disintegrate on detonation. In cowboy days they used a metal that was thinner and wouldn't jam the gun. Try that.
How to make those strips of cap gun ammo?
Bought them did not make them myself.
Tis the season……
There's no need to fuss with capgun papers. Mercury Fulminate is a very simple to make. If you rinse the crystals with ice water to increase purity then dissolve it in ethanol (everclear), you can use an eye dropper or syringe to fill the caps and let id re-crystalize right in the cap, itself. For safe storage, just leave it dissolved in the ethanol and make sure to top off the ethanol whenever you start to see crystals forming in the bottom of the jar.
Had the set up to make my own caps about 20 years ago. I found that they were less powerful than the weakest commercial caps. They also do not work well with a gun that has an angle to the fire path, like a Hawken. Now for a pistol or rifle with straight path from nipple to powder it works better. It also is no good for pyrodex.
Did you ever try the make your own mix for the caps. They sell a bag of powders to make caps or 22s.
I haven't tried it yet. Maybe I need to buy a second bag for a test
@@richardhenry1969 I've heard that works very well but have never tried it.
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Instead of using those cap gun loads, use a Match Book.
Crush a match head and scrape some of the striker strip into the mix.
Load your cap and place a bit of toilet paper in the cap for retention.
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