What aboot makin the nipples fit yr caps? Chuck em in a drill or dremel tool chuck (small lathe is better if you have it but drill chuck should work) work em down to size with some emery paper with the drill chuck spinnin - I do stuff like that with emery glued to a pop stick - fit the caps as ya go .
I thought about that, but on the one hand I don't have the tools, space or expertise to just say "Hey, I'll do THAT!"
On the other foot, (Movie reference) it IS a stock, supposedly unfired (So surmised the seller) F series 2G pretty much actual Colt which I gather will paper if I wanted to spend the bux. It seems to me, if you have the gun, numbers all match (even the barrel wedge) and I WILL bet nobody could find traces of powder or cap residue, because I'VE never been able to shoot it, I have the box with the little booklets, as far as I know or care everything that came with it originally) you don't NEED the paper.
It's like being too intelligent to spend the bux to join MENSA so you can hang out with eggheads de lux.
I mean, (and I don't bandy THAT phrase lightly,) I really don't want to alter the original If I can avoid it.
It's as, when I was a teenage surfer in So Cal in the mid 60s, I bought an original (pre pop-out] Velzy surfboard from a church friend.
I modified that thing no end. Long story short (I know, too late) that thing would be worth 1K bux plus today.
Research Dale Velzy, As far as I know, he's the only person to have a surf break on the North Shore of Oahu named after him
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