Trouble capping pocket navy

[Shootemup]

I picked up  a pocket navy from a fellow  member  on here but I have a question  how in the heck do you cap this thing  on the gun?  I'm using CCI number  11 caps they touch the frame making them go on at an angle and I'm not able to get them on.I've resorted to loading the cylinder  on the gun then taking it off to cap then reinstalling it . It's an ASM if that helps.

[Captainkirk]

Just me, maybe...but I would try using #10 caps on that little thing. Hell, number 11s fit my Hawken guns. I use 10s on every revolver I have.

[Shootemup]

Thanks Captain  I've tried  # 10 . Off the gun 10s have to be really  forced on.  On the gun same problem if not worse. Number 11s fit great. I think maybe I should pm  the member i got it from  and ask him what he did.

[Hawg]

Thanks Captain  I've tried  # 10 . Off the gun 10s have to be really  forced on.  On the gun same problem if not worse. Number 11s fit great. I think maybe I should pm  the member i got it from  and ask him what he did.

He sold it to you.

[45 Dragoon]

 

Mike

[ssb73q]

Hi Shootemup, try using a small dowel to seat the caps on the nipples.

Regards,
Richard

[Shootemup]

Thanks Captain  I've tried  # 10 . Off the gun 10s have to be really  forced on.  On the gun same problem if not worse. Number 11s fit great. I think maybe I should pm  the member i got it from  and ask him what he did.

He sold it to you.

That was a good one Hawg

[Shootemup]

Hi Shootemup, try using a small dowel to seat the caps on the nipples.

Regards,
Richard

Thanks Richard that seems to work. They still seem to be a little crooked and drag on the frame but after spinning the cylinder around once and then using the dowel again they seem fine.

[Shootemup]

Mike

45 Dragoon
this gun has been through your hands  fantastic work!!!

[Captainkirk]

Mike

45 Dragoon
this gun has been through your hands  fantastic work!!!

There's your trouble! 

JK, Mike!

[Fingers McGee]

Take all of those CCI caps and throw them in the circular file  Then get yourself some #10 REMINGTON caps.  You`ll have a more harmonious outcome. 

Ps,  RSS 1075 caps work as good as - if not better than -  the Remington #10s

[45 Dragoon]

Thanks Shootemup!!  Does that one have coils or flats?

  A cap groove  in the recoil shield cutout would probably help  or even "fix" the problem.   Also, you can dress the outside edge of the recoil ring as sometimes they are a little thick causing the caps to drag as the cyl cycles.

Mike

[Shootemup]

Thanks all I played around with it today while  I was working pushing them on with the dowel is exactly what I needed to do. They are flat 45 Dragoon. jaxenro said this might have been the first cap rake you installed.

[45 Dragoon]

Wow!! Yap, that's the first "pocket" gun I ever did!! And, you're correct, it is the first cap post I ever did on a pocket as well! There's almost no "meat" to drill and tap to screw in a post so I cut down a dovetail front sight  and fitted it in place. That was  the ONLY one I did that way as well!!!

Mike

[Shootemup]

Nice to know I have a one of a kind.