What is this???????

[Mogorilla]

Okay,
So, getting ready for a Pistol shoot at the Jesse James Farm in Kearney Missouri.  As I am on the board, I thought I would bring several extra pistols incase a looker wants to be a doer.  Today, I am loading cappers and I find this oddity on my bench.   I have no idea what it is.   In the past 2 days, the bench has hosted (all pieta) a 1860 Colt Army, 1851 Colt Navy, Dance Brothers Revolver, 1858 Remington, and another 1858 Remington with a R&D cylinder.    Today, it hosted 10 inline cappers.   In the last month, it has also seen a Uberti Henry and a Cimarron 1878 Double Barrel Shotgun.    I have no recollection in my years of tweaking these guns of seeing anything like it.  I put a percussion cap (Remington No.11) in the photo for size perspective.  HELP!!!

[Coffinmaker]

Obviously ..... It's one of those.   

Coffinmaker

PS:  And there is a Percussion Cap inna picture too 

[Ben Beam]

Looks to me like a rear window out of a buckhorn sight.

[kwilliams1876]

well.........
could be a anvil out of an old shotgun primer. seems vaguely familiar to me.
kw

[Scattered Thumbs]

well.........
could be a anvil out of an old shotgun primer. seems vaguely familiar to me.
kw

Give this man a big fat ceegar! He got it right.

[Major 2]

I want to play !

here is my contribution .....

these two items were found and removed from behind the lock plate on a Uberti 1866 rifle...   not mine

The action had jammed and upon disassembled, these fell out     The Gun is a Taylors import date code 2013 and had a new loading gate installed after the OEM tab failed on it's first outing , stage 1 ,  5th-6th. round.

So the plate was off, the gun has run without issue the last two years, until it jammed (above )  
once they were out, the gun runs fine.

as with Mog's post,  the penny is for scale

[Mogorilla]

Thanks!!  I did hand load some shotgun shells there.  Whew.  I did not want to share a gun tomorrow if it was missing a piece I had never seen before.  Obviously, I need to clean my bench a wee bit more often.  Thanks guys!

[Major 2]

apologies, for the Highjack, thought maybe we'd have some " what is It fun "

[Mogorilla]

No worries on that.  I support most acts of piracy, helps with climate change

[Professor Marvel]

My Dear Mogorilla-

yes, I concurr ( as if consesus is required lol )  it is a shotgun primer anvil.

I have seen it's like amongst the used primers I save.

Being a cheap barstich frugal sort, I have been known to save "anything" wood or metal, especially if it was previously manufactured. I  am still saving a coffee can full of small carbon steel cutoffs :-)  , but I do draw the line at metal shaving and swarf
( owww! )  :-(

By taking junk apart and perusing it,  I found it interesting to discover that the apparrently "large" 209 shotgun is merely a
large cup holding a more "standard size" primer and this large anvil.

see here


why did I tear them apart? the dearth of .22 rimfire. I found this, using 209 primers to propell pellets


then I experimented and found a 209 primer will propell a well-lubed .22 bullet accurately out of an old .22 rifle barrel like a CB
and that a 209 will propell a well-lubed 150 gr lead bullet quietly out of a .30 rifle ( kinda a "blooper load" - I could see the bullet!)

You really need to take more crap apart!

yhs
prof marvel

[Scattered Thumbs]

My Dear Mogorilla-

yes, I concurr ( as if consesus is required lol )  it is a shotgun primer anvil.

I have seen it's like amongst the used primers I save.

Being a cheap barstich frugal sort, I have been known to save "anything" wood or metal, especially if it was previously manufactured. I  am still saving a coffee can full of small carbon steel cutoffs :-)  , but I do draw the line at metal shaving and swarf
( owww! )  :-(

By taking junk apart and perusing it,  I found it interesting to discover that the apparrently "large" 209 shotgun is merely a
large cup holding a more "standard size" primer and this large anvil.

see here


why did I tear them apart? the dearth of .22 rimfire. I found this, using 209 primers to propell pellets


then I experimented and found a 209 primer will propell a well-lubed .22 bullet accurately out of an old .22 rifle barrel like a CB
and that a 209 will propell a well-lubed 150 gr lead bullet quietly out of a .30 rifle ( kinda a "blooper load" - I could see the bullet!)

You really need to take more crap apart!

yhs
prof marvel

Wow Professor. That is very cool. No, not the Scrooge Mcduck frugal sort thing.

That thing you did with the pellets the cases and the primers.

PS. Got a 92 in .32 WCF? I see the makings of the ultimate gamer cartridge using the .31 ball.

[Coffinmaker]

Mogo,
A cautionary note.  A Neat, Clean and Orderly Work Bench is the sign of a truly Sick Mind.  I have a 3 X 8 Work Bench.  I actually have about a square foot and a half to actually "work" in.

Coffinmaker

[Professor Marvel]

BTW images stolen shamelessly from the webs, I can't seem to get a good photo to upload to save my whateverr

My Good ST -

yeeeeaaaahhhhh.... I have to play with some greased .31 RB in those cases!

My Dear CM
now I don;t feel "quite" so bad LOL

yhs
prf mumbles

[Coal Creek Griff]

Rather than a "what is it?" thread, I could use a "where is it?" thread.  It could cover dropped parts that seem to hit the tip of my foot and vanish, springs that spring into the ether and maybe tools that were just here the other day. Many days, I could use it for my mind. What was I just saying? I don't recall.

CC Griff

[Scattered Thumbs]

Rather than a "what is it?" thread, I could use a "where is it?" thread.  It could cover dropped parts that seem to hit the tip of my foot and vanish, springs that spring into the ether and maybe tools that were just here the other day. Many days, I could use it for my mind. What was I just saying? I don't recall.

CC Griff

I can relate to that. 

There's a lot of odds and ends that theoretictally are still in my house. If I only knew where. 

The last one was a tiny spring from my Colt Gold Cup. The dreaded sear depressor spring.