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Reload vs Recapper - What's the difference?

reload | recapper |

In firearms terms the difference between reload and recapper

is that reload is to make one's own cartridges using spent (or new) cases and new powder, primer, and bullet/shot while recapper is a tool that applies a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.

As a verb reload

is to load (something) again.

As a noun recapper is

a tool that applies a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.

reload

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To load (something) again
  • (computing) To refresh a copy of a program in memory or of a web page on screen
  • (firearms) to make one's own cartridges using spent (or new) cases and new powder, primer, and bullet/shot.

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    recapper

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (firearms) A tool that applies a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.
    • (Webster 1913)