[SML] Stage pistol?

[Jerry Durand]

Mentioning the primers, if you were to have one of the Pietta black
powder guns modified to just use the percussion caps, be aware that the
cap often shoots bits of copper out of the sides of the gun and in any
case the remains tend to fall out of the gun.  When I fire mine, the
caps are pretty shredded.

The ones on the site listed are specially made to use cartridges, NOT
percussion caps.

On 05/03/2016 03:53 PM, Duncan Mahoney via Stagecraft wrote:
> Another thing with "blank firing only revolvers" that can really matter is your choice of blank brands (or primer brands if you load your own).  Some blanks have weak primers that will bulge backwards towards the firing pin when fired.  Given that tolerances of many blank guns are "looser" than those of real guns, surfaces are not polished as smooth and burr free, and some blank guns allow the hammer to rest lightly against the firing pin when the hammer is down (keeping the firing pin from fully retracting), and you have a combination of factors that can cause the gun to jam when the actor has to fire more than once.  Alternately, most blank guns have lightweight hammers that do not hit the firing pin as hard as "real guns" do, so primers made from thicker/harder material may not reliably ignite when struck, leading to a different type of miss-fire.
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