I have a Knight Bighorn using musket caps and I'm interested in doing the 209 conversion since it's now legal in WA, which I was told involved just switching out the breech plug. I can't seem to find just the breech plug, but instead I'm finding the 209 conversion kit that makes you use plastic jacketed primer holders. This brings up some questions that I can't seem to find an answer to, such as:
1) Can you re-use the plastic jackets or are you stuck buying those forever?
2) If you can re-use the jackets how do you get the primers out easily?
3) I don't see any kind of capper that you can carry around your neck with a bunch of jacketed primers ready to load like the old school musket cappers I use, so how is everyone carrying them hunting? Or do they fit into the musket capper/decappers?
4) In WA we were always irritated being forced to hunt with an exposed breech (not even allowed to tape over it in the rain) and musket caps. Now I'm wondering if it's worth doing the 209 conversion on the BH since the breech is still exposed. Would it make more sense to sell the BH and get a CVA break barrel with the enclosed breech (which is now legal) and not have to worry about the plastic jacketed primers?
5) If the bare primer breech plug is still available somewhere I'm not seeing what kind of hammer/firing pin does the BH need exactly? I read it needs to be a "universal" on a forum but the picture shows a coned shape on the hammer and the OP noted it was ground down to shoot some kind of primer so it wasn't much help. Mine isn't really pointed and it's not flat on the end, it's kind of coned but rounded on the end.
6) What's the reason the bare primer breech plug isn't available? Disadvantage over the jacketed?
1) Can you re-use the plastic jackets or are you stuck buying those forever?
2) If you can re-use the jackets how do you get the primers out easily?
3) I don't see any kind of capper that you can carry around your neck with a bunch of jacketed primers ready to load like the old school musket cappers I use, so how is everyone carrying them hunting? Or do they fit into the musket capper/decappers?
4) In WA we were always irritated being forced to hunt with an exposed breech (not even allowed to tape over it in the rain) and musket caps. Now I'm wondering if it's worth doing the 209 conversion on the BH since the breech is still exposed. Would it make more sense to sell the BH and get a CVA break barrel with the enclosed breech (which is now legal) and not have to worry about the plastic jacketed primers?
5) If the bare primer breech plug is still available somewhere I'm not seeing what kind of hammer/firing pin does the BH need exactly? I read it needs to be a "universal" on a forum but the picture shows a coned shape on the hammer and the OP noted it was ground down to shoot some kind of primer so it wasn't much help. Mine isn't really pointed and it's not flat on the end, it's kind of coned but rounded on the end.
6) What's the reason the bare primer breech plug isn't available? Disadvantage over the jacketed?