So.
I broke down and ordered a cap punch and die to make the percussion caps. It looks like this:
![[Image: IMG_4386_1024x1024.JPG?v=1471040729]](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0824/4621/products/IMG_4386_1024x1024.JPG?v=1471040729)
A video showing how it works:
As it turns out, turnaround time on them is forever, in dog years anyhow. I ordered it last Sunday evening, thinking it would get sent out over the course of this week. When this evening rolled around with still no shipping notification, I started investigating, and it sounds like delivery time is in the range of 4-6 weeks.
Maybe it'll be here in the spring, when it's warm enough for me to finally mold some bullets, too.
ETA: Got a message from the vendor. About 4 weeks total before shipment. That's some serious lead time in this day and age, but I can't do anything with it anyhow until the spring thaw, so it's all good.
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This picture ain't got nothing to to with nothing. I'm just dropping it here for @"Finspiracy" :
I broke down and ordered a cap punch and die to make the percussion caps. It looks like this:
A video showing how it works:
As it turns out, turnaround time on them is forever, in dog years anyhow. I ordered it last Sunday evening, thinking it would get sent out over the course of this week. When this evening rolled around with still no shipping notification, I started investigating, and it sounds like delivery time is in the range of 4-6 weeks.
Maybe it'll be here in the spring, when it's warm enough for me to finally mold some bullets, too.
ETA: Got a message from the vendor. About 4 weeks total before shipment. That's some serious lead time in this day and age, but I can't do anything with it anyhow until the spring thaw, so it's all good.
.
This picture ain't got nothing to to with nothing. I'm just dropping it here for @"Finspiracy" :
Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’