Percussion caps #10 and #11

[waksupi]

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]

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]

Ric, That's the next thing I have to do!

[GunSlingerNM]

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]

Cap Maker is discontinued , Battis

[Jon]

Are there any good options for cap composition? I would think that the cup would be the easier thing

[Hardcast416taylor]

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]

I found some #11 at 3rd generation shooters a few weeks ago.

[GARD72977]

Im stocked pretty good but caps are hard to find here. When I have found them there was a 2 tin limit

[Eddie2002]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.