Shooting English Percussion Revolvers.

[jantee]

I have had a lot of problems shooting my .36 cal George Daw's revolver as the smallest percussion caps I can get are 10's and most of the English revolvers take the much smaller 25's. You can pinch them on, but somehow they always fall off and gum up the mechanicals. I had a rush of blood the other day and bought some toy gun super caps (the ones in an 8 shot plastic ring). I cut off the individual caps and tried them on the nipples - perfect fit. To cut a long story short - they work perfectly giving 100% ignition with Swiss No 2 in any case. There are two major benefits - they do not split and fall off and, - they are about 1/10th of the price the of normal caps!

Jan Trussler.

[Fabian23]

I have an Adams revolver, which I have not yet had time to try (so many guns, so little time) however the nipples appear to be of average size, will have to try some caps for size.

[Øyvind F.]

Sounds like a good solution. Do you have pictures of your revolver? How's the accuracy?

[jantee]

Will get you a picture. Still working on accuracy and a decent load. Probably needs more than the 9 grains I am feeding it at the moment.

The Adams revolvers I have seen all have small nipples unless they have been changed. My Bentley and Webley Longspur also have the same size nipples.

Jan Trussler

[jantee]

Here are some piccies of the George Daw revolver. It was considered the best of its type in its day and had a fixed sight radius on the barrel which did not alter with how the wedge went in like the Colts. It also had a complete nipple shield when the hammer was down, a piece of the shield being part of the hammer itself. Although a 5 shot model it held its own with 6 shot models as it was customary to keep one cylinder empty with the hammer down on it. With the Daw, there are pins on each of the cylinder webs which fit into a corresponding hole in the hammer. the gun could be carried loaded with 5 shots and the hammer safely pinned to the cylinder webs inbetween loaded cylinders.




Jan

[Fabian23]

Beautiful!  Looks like a robust revolver. Is it 54bore or smaller?

[jantee]

It's actually 88 bore or .375". This model competed with the pocket Colt and earned a better reputation. Daw did make other models, and I have seen a 6 shot 60 bore example which was much bigger than mine. Jim Hallam seems to be the expert on these.

Jan Trussler