Is anyone making their own percussion caps?

In Ron Brown's book Homemade guns and Homemade Ammo there is a recipe for primer compound, that a friend of mine is using. He has had pretty good success making primers with that mixture, so I will probably give that a whirl before I abandon the project.
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I don't know about Ron Brown, but the stuff you want is called Armstrong's Mixture. It is exceedingly dangerous to make, so be careful.
 
update!

Roll caps they make now are wimpy compared to the older ones. When I was a kid they were loud and there was a lot of smoke.
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I have been playing with the cheap Chinese roll caps and I have found a system that works really well. See the problem with the Chinese caps is not that the compound isn't powerful enough.
The problem is the dots are smaller (not as much compound) than the ones we had when we were kids. When you use the hole punch you add more and more of the heavy backing paper with
every cap. I discovered that, with a little bit of practice, I can scrape the cap off the roll even more quickly than I can punch it out! This means I can fit a lot more caps (with less paper) in each aluminum cup. I
think 5 is going to work really well but there is easily room for 20 if you really wanted to make some hot caps!

check out my video.
http://s901.photobucket.com/albums/ac214/deardelmar/?action=view&current=scrapecaps.flv

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After I put as many caps in the cup as I want, I spay it with a little bit of cheap hair spray and let them
dry overnight. It holds the stuff in really well.
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