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Atlast357
08-25-2013, 10:17 PM
Where I live, the shortage of center fire ammo is beginning to ease up.
but for us black powder shooters, caps are in short supply. All my local
stores have nothing and prospects for future stock ain't looking good .
I'm running low where do I turn. My revolvers use #10 and #11 CCI or Remington.
I was ready to refit all with Ampco nipples to accept one size, but don't want spend
$30 per to convert when neither size caps are available.
My go back further in time and get flint ignition...........:smile:

Battis
08-25-2013, 10:25 PM
A few years ago I bought a Tap-O-Cap to make my own caps. The concept is good - you punch the caps out of empty beer cans and use those little rolled red toy caps for ignition. The problem I had, and apparently many others are having, is that those little red toy caps aren't as strong as they used to be, and they don't consistently set off the powder. But check it out (if you haven't already)
http://www.midwayusa.com/Product/842064/forster-tap-o-cap-11-percusion-cap-maker

Sweetpea
08-25-2013, 10:31 PM
I seem to have no problem finding them around here...

I bought 1000 CCI #10 magnums recently, just in time for my older T/C to bite the dust.

Funny how all the newer inlines use a MUCH more expensive ignition system!

starmac
08-25-2013, 10:37 PM
Older tc bit the dust????? What happened.

Sweetpea
08-25-2013, 10:45 PM
System 1...

I had the stock split, and the action has set back nearly 1/8"

The bolt won't lock back, and of course, NO accuracy, and not the safest situation.

I've been in contact with T/C for two weeks now, and I still have no return label.

They told me when I first called, that it was obsolete, and if it wasn't deemed abuse they would just send me a new muzzy.

So far it seems like I just get the stroke job song and dance.

Boerrancher
08-25-2013, 11:31 PM
I have well over 2k of no 11 caps and the only gun I use them in is my .32 Crockett. Everything else I shoot is a rock lock. I would buy a couple hundred every time I would find them I would buy a couple hundred, plus last year I bought a thousand while at Grafs. I will wait until Walmart puts them on clearance come Jan. I will continue to collect them when I find them. I do have other cap guns but never shoot them.

Best wishes,

Joe

Squeeze
08-26-2013, 06:49 AM
I just got some from sportsmans warehouse, best bet is just to order some from somewhere, even if out of stock at the moment. It seems caps go out of stock now and again, but the wait for resupply is usually pretty short. they have gone in and out of stock at many places now a few times that ive seen lately. its nowhere near like .22 ammo. chances are if you order now, youll prob have em in abt a month

Boerrancher
08-26-2013, 08:38 AM
Grafs has them in all different brands I was there last Friday and saw them. I would just order a couple of thousand and store them in an old GI ammo can. They won't go bad, the price won't get any cheaper, and you know you are going to use them.

Best wishes

Joe

GunSlingerNM
09-03-2013, 03:38 PM
I never thought I would have problems getting caps but.... usual places out of stock. I found a LGS that had # 11 CCI and bought 500. Most of my revolvers use #10 but I guess I can bend the 11s out of round.
I have no idea why they are hard to get locally but can be ordered online, just have to pay the $27 hazmat fee.

fouronesix
09-03-2013, 03:53 PM
Good luck. Grab some if you see some.
http://www.grafs.com/retail/catalog/category/categoryId/3511?
http://www.midwayusa.com/find?sortby=1&itemsperpage=24&newcategorydimensionid=19859

gkainz
09-03-2013, 05:37 PM
I can't find them around Denver ... with muzzleloading season rapidly approaching and I find I'm now down to just a few left. Poor planning on my part. Anyone read the NRA article about the overall ammo shortage and possible cause? Abnormal buying, and not only by speculators ... also caused by panic buying, according to the author.

GunSlingerNM
09-03-2013, 06:32 PM
I don't remember where I read it but.. with manufactures cranking out as fast as they can for cartridges bp stuff is on the back burner.
Sounds like a reason but really I may just be spreading another rumor.

GREENCOUNTYPETE
09-04-2013, 01:18 PM
try here http://www.addictedtoblackpowder.com/2.html , I just got powder from him he lists #11 and #10

I have bought powder a couple times from him he is always good to work with.

Crash_Corrigan
09-04-2013, 02:00 PM
I know I can make my own BP from easily obtained components. However Percussion caps are a different story. This is why I have opted for a Flintlock action rifle. No matter what idiotic measures O'Bammer comes up with I will still be able to shoot. Not so fast but with accuracy. Remember a one eyed man is King in a country of blind people.

armexman
12-14-2013, 08:07 PM
Gkainz, try Ace Hardware in Loveland, they have 1000's in CCI#11 Magnums

JSAND
12-15-2013, 11:05 AM
Atlast357, I hope your shortage has eased up. None of the LGS around here carry 10 or 11 percussion caps, or stock the black. I can travel 100 miles North or South and get it, but at what it cost me round trip, time and gas, I can order both online in quantity and it's cheaper for me that way.

jimwill48
12-15-2013, 11:54 AM
Found them locally at Gander Mt but $7.99 a 100 is a bit steep....

dondiego
12-15-2013, 05:34 PM
Same here for me at Cabela's! 8 cents for a cap???? Too much!

bob208
12-16-2013, 01:55 PM
i was at an auction few weeks ago. picked up 5000 caps. 10-11 and Remington 12's for $35 the whole lot. some are Remington some cci, rws. some are even in cva tins.. but for the price I will shoot them.

I have been looking for one of the forester tools for years. I think those caps would work fine on my underhammers.

Maven
12-16-2013, 02:25 PM
Found them locally at Gander Mt but $7.99 a 100 is a bit steep....

That's the price at our Gander Mt. as well, but their prices are obcenely high on most things.

waksupi
12-16-2013, 05:03 PM
I order 30 flints, for around $49 bucks yesterday. I figure on a hundred shots per, so that's 3000 shots for a lot less than a cap gun firing the same amount, by quite a bit. Yes, I'm cheap.

TheCelt
12-16-2013, 05:06 PM
I order 30 flints, for around $49 bucks yesterday. I figure on a hundred shots per, so that's 3000 shots for a lot less than a cap gun firing the same amount, by quite a bit. Yes, I'm cheap.

That ain't cheap, it's smart!!!

Maven
12-16-2013, 05:21 PM
Ric, That's the next thing I have to do!

GunSlingerNM
12-16-2013, 06:59 PM
I was at Sportsman's Warehouse (BassPro) over the weekend and they had both Remington and RWS caps on the shelves. Remington is $5.79 a tin, I don't recall what RWS was priced at but less than $6.00. Anyway looks like caps are coming back.

concho
12-20-2013, 12:27 PM
Cap Maker is discontinued , Battis

Jon
12-26-2013, 11:51 AM
Are there any good options for cap composition? I would think that the cup would be the easier thing

Hardcast416taylor
12-26-2013, 01:48 PM
Trouble I found with my "Tap-O-Cap" was the paper caps were too sensative and would often detonate while just putting them in the formed cap. I didn`t want the caps going off while I was capping my side hammers. I sold it to another guy that did have what I feared happen, a cap went off while capping his side hammer CVA. No injuries except shock about what happened and a few nicks and bruises from the gun recoiling. He threw it in a pile of scrap metal for the scrap yard rather that let someone else get it.Robert

rmark
12-26-2013, 11:08 PM
I found some #11 at 3rd generation shooters a few weeks ago.

GARD72977
12-27-2013, 12:26 PM
Im stocked pretty good but caps are hard to find here. When I have found them there was a 2 tin limit

Eddie2002
12-27-2013, 01:02 PM
Haven't been able to find any #11 caps at any LGS for over two months. Just picked up a .50 caliber caplock ML and I'm going nuts cause I can't shoot it. The only ones I've found on line are limited to three tins per order and have a 27.50 hazmat fee, sorry that's too much for me. Thinking about turning a nipple that will take berdan primers, have two bricks of them, just to shoot it a few times.

DIRT Farmer
12-28-2013, 01:00 AM
As for Ricks comment on flints, Joe showed me how to make them this Summer, I just have to find a rock and spend some time. I'm really cheap.

Beagle333
12-28-2013, 01:12 AM
Gander Mountain has a good stock of #11s here, but at $6.79 a tin. At that price, I'll just keep the ML's oiled and stored and shoot my centerfires with the 3 cent primers.

Jon
12-28-2013, 07:19 AM
Haven't been able to find any #11 caps at any LGS for over two months. Just picked up a .50 caliber caplock ML and I'm going nuts cause I can't shoot it. The only ones I've found on line are limited to three tins per order and have a 27.50 hazmat fee, sorry that's too much for me. Thinking about turning a nipple that will take berdan primers, have two bricks of them, just to shoot it a few times.

There is a place that sells a replacement nipple for using 209 shotgun primers.

starmac
12-29-2013, 04:47 AM
7.99 has been the going price here pretty well since they came back AFTER Obummer was elected. We went around 6 months without them in 08. Sportsmans has them pretty regular now without a limit, but usualiy only puts 5 tins on the shelf at a time. That is for 11's, I haven't seen any 10's in a coons age.

Southron
12-31-2013, 10:19 PM
Whatever you do, avoid the CCI RE-ENACTOR Musket Caps. They are "weak as water." A friend of mine made the mistake of buying a tin of them. He shoots a replica 1861 Springfield and about a third of the time with the new CCI Re-enactor musket caps, he got a misfire!!!

He has quit using all CCI products now, including their .22 RF ammo. He doesn't trust their quality any more.

CCI should be ashamed of themselves for marketing such junk.