muzzeloader question

[tonyp813]

Hey guys i dont know much about muzzeloaders besides what my grandfather showed me as far as loading the weapon and cleaning the weapon, yet my grandfather gave me his old muzzel loader and I wanted to hunt with it a couple times I know now how much powder i need and what size ball etc,

now for the question the weapon has a 209 primer and it seems like a remember a cap that used to screw over top the primer and the hammer hit that, we cant seem to find the cap in his gun cabinet no where or on the internet or gun stores, soooo, im looking for sugestions please

[MichiganHunter]

hmmm....thats a new one to me, I know tha some guns used the disc's that went around the primer but you say it screwed on it hmm....I'll look into it and ask some friends and see what we come up with....post a pic of the gun and it's action...that might help

[tonyp813]

ill try and post pics this afternoon but the primer sits down in like a cup and the cap screws down over it it has threads but it is a very loose thread like it will still move around but not fall of cause of the threads then there is a pin inside the cap the hammer hits the cap and it moves just enought on the threads to set off the primer

[Cybertech_hound819]

ya ul have to post some pics so we can tell better but only thing i can come up with is the plastic cap things

[MichiganHunter]

ya ul have to post some pics so we can tell better but only thing i can come up with is the plastic cap things

Thats the same thing i was thinking...but I have no idea till I see a pic

[RangerClay]

ill try and post pics this afternoon but the primer sits down in like a cup and the cap screws down over it it has threads but it is a very loose thread like it will still move around but not fall of cause of the threads then there is a pin inside the cap the hammer hits the cap and it moves just enought on the threads to set off the primer

Is this it?

Its called a Mag Spark. It was created to use 209's on side lock ML's. About the same it was invented so were in-lines so it never caught on. I have no idea how good these things work. What make and model ML do you have? Maybe we can make some suggestions.