And now for a capper (or "why is it everything I buy ends up a project?)

Started by Adirondack Jack, September 29, 2010, 11:46:39 PM

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Adirondack Jack

Fleshing out the "kit" for the better half's new '62 Pocket Navy (we'd not been in the C&B biz in over a decade) I bought a Slim Jim holster, a Ted Cash "universal" snail capper, and some odds and ends.  The stuff arrived today, and of course the capper, while very nice and well made, wouldn't fit the diminuative 5 shot .36 cylinder on the '62.  At first i was gonna send it back, but after studying HOW MUCH the nose of the capper lacked of fitting into the notches around the nipples, (seemed like a mile), and what could and could NOT be trimmed away on the capper, I decided to go for it.  After several rounds of everybody's favorite game of "Fit and try", I trimmed away enough of the nose to get it down around the nipple.  Then the durn spring wouldn't let it free when ya capped a nipple without yanking on it too hard.....  So I first re-bent (gently) then ground the nose of the spring until capping happiness was achieved.



Note how there is NO extra material around the cap once in the "ready" position.  The spaces around the nipples on the little cylinder are pretty tight.  I suspect the same would be true for the pocket police or the '49 Pocket revolvers.



Anyway, with a proper pistol flask a pard gave us (real nice 2nd Gen Colt), the holster and capper, we're about "there", well except for a dovetailed front sight to get er to shoot POA, which will be a winter project.....

I'd forgot just how much fun the C&B guns are.  Might have to git me another '61 one day....
Warthog, Dirty Rat, SBSS OGBx3, maker of curious little cartridges

Montana Slim

Amen  ;D
They is a hooot!

Added bonus is not having clean and relaod the cartridge brass when you get home :D

I've lost count on C&B pistols, but 20-something might be in the neighborhood.
Should lay them all out for a group photo (& hug) someday

Slim
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Drayton Calhoun

Indeed they are! Been burning powder in CandB for better than 30 years now. Up to 15 or 16. Got a Navy Arms Bisley and a Blackhawk, but the frontstuffin' wheel guns are my favorites.
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