WARNING!!!

[timbrayford]

During transport, I meant.
A bit like removing the bolt from your rifle and keeping it on your person. You do the same with the shotgun fore end.
But even so, someone who was criminally minded could still fire two shots from a double barrelled shotgun without the forend. But not if the firing pins have been released onto snapcaps. That makes it impossible to fire until reunited with the fore end.
At least, that is my understanding of it.

To be frank when we've been traveling on the gun bus on public roads between one bit of the estate to another, not once in the past 30 years have I seen anyone take their gun apart.

 

[VSS]

To be frank when we've been traveling on the gun bus on public roads between one bit of the estate to another, not once in the past 30 years have I seen anyone take their gun apart.

I was thinking more about when travelling on public buses rather than gun buses. Or when leaving a shotgun in an unattended vehicle at a service station. Those kind of scenarios.
Or in a hotel room, perhaps.

 

[Dunwaters]

During transport, I meant.
A bit like removing the bolt from your rifle and keeping it on your person. You do the same with the shotgun fore end.
But even so, someone who was criminally minded could still fire two shots from a double barrelled shotgun without the forend. But not if the firing pins have been released onto snapcaps. That makes it impossible to fire until reunited with the fore end.
At least, that is my understanding of it.

Put the cocking levers against a hard surface and push.
You’ll cock the gun as often as you want.
I’d love to know where these theories originate, obviously not from anyone who’s ever taken the time to actually look at how a gun works.

 

[Skinny Pete]

Put the cocking levers against a hard surface and push.
You’ll cock the gun as often as you want.
I’d love to know where these theories originate, obviously not from anyone who’s ever taken the time to actually look at how a gun works.

Mainsprings are still under some tension when fired , even with snap caps. Also when fired the ejector springs are then under tension ( if it’s an ejector).
So springs are never properly relieved.

 

[1000kilograhams]

I used to be in the habit of using them to relieve the springs for storage.

Just as a heads up for others on this Springs don't mind being in a compressed state indefinitely, it makes no odds to them, it's the act of compressing and unloading which gradually wears on them.

I know it seems counterintuitive as we seem to naturally think of a spring being compressed for a long time as being bad, but it isn't People used to apply this to torque wrenches and all sorts also.

Back to snap caps in general though, can be handy for rim fires where you often cannot dry fire without risking damaging things, or as someone else said showing unfamiliar people what's what in respect of a particular firearm.

As for travelling with a snap cap in, not sure why you would but also it's plastic so I don't see how they could ever call it loaded... Is it loaded with a chamber flag in it? Usual craziness, if true...