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Percussion Cap

admin · 2026-03-16T23:04:06.205Z

Spent a good chunk of time at a muzzleloader match last fall watching guys fight their flintlocks in a light drizzle — missed shots, delayed ignitions, the whole circus. It's a good reminder that percussion ignition didn't just make guns more convenient. It made them actually work when you needed them to. "The jury is still out as the competing claims are based on personal accounts and have little or no independently verifiable evidence." The percussion cap is one of the most consequential ...

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Percussion Cap

The percussion cap — also called a caplock or percussion primer — is a small copper cylinder, closed at one end, containing a shock-sensitive explosive compound. Place it over a hollow nipple on a firearm, pull the trigger, and the hammer crushes it

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