Got a good deal on percussion caps

[vrh]

Around here the price of percussion caps are $8.00 per hundred. Found an online supply for $42.00 per thousand.
Ordered me a couple of thousand. Ordered those thru Powder Valley Inc.

[nagantguy]

Love finding a deal especially on a high use item! I’m still ecstatic at finding the encore forend screws I needed at the local Mom and pop hardware store for 26 cents apiece!

[bedbugbilly]

Oh how I long for the days when I was a kid and there was an old gunsmith in his 80s not too far away. A tin of 100 Remingtons ran 25 cents a tin - a pound of DuPont a whole 75 cents - I'm guessing the price increase from those days is called inflation?

I have a stash of percussion caps but the last time I looked at a LGS - a 100 were priced at almost $9.00 / 100.

Good buy at $42.00 / K - don't blame you for snapping up a couple K - sort of gives you peace of mine that you won't run out anytime soon! Enjoy!

[pietro]

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I'm all set, right up to my Dirt Nap - When I stumbled across a gun shop a couple of years ago that was selling percussion #11 caps for $3.50/tin of 100, I bought 20 tins.


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[RU shooter]

Our walmart has them for 4bucks a tin for the cci brand . I've never bought a cap since I'm a flint guy but can I assume the tins are 100 count ?

[RogerDat]

For me it was the mad search for musket caps back during the last time of slim pickings, then found them at a LGS for a decent price bought a few hundred. Hmmm there is an item it might be worth stocking up on. Don't know about a couple K worth but a few hundred wouldn't hurt anything and won't hurt the budget much. Forget how many Caps have for the revolver. Not enough I'm sure.

[TheOutlawKid]

Remington #11s are $3.19 at one gun shop locally...so i stock up on them when i can. CCI #10 and #11 are $4.95. I only use remington tho but i also make my own percussion caps. I might make a small post on how ive come up with my own special way to make really hot and strong caps.

[Buzzard II]

Our walmart has them for 4bucks a tin for the cci brand . I've never bought a cap since I'm a flint guy but can I assume the tins are 100 count ?

RU Shooter,
Yes, tins are 100 count. Which flints are you using and are you happy with them? I am slowly putting together a Thompson Center flint lock 50 cal. with a Green Mountain PB barrel and L&R lock, not sure about trigger yet. Thanks!
Bob

[mazo kid]

I will be interested in your method of making caps. My long arms are primarily flinters, along with some pistols. I do have some percussion pistols, along with C&B revolvers and do have a (unused) percussion cap maker. I have also heard that the German toy cap rolls are best.

[rancher1913]

care to clue us in on the "where" so we can maybe order some too.

[Texas by God]

8 dollars per 100 here for Remingtons.

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[RU shooter]

RU Shooter,
Yes, tins are 100 count. Which flints are you using and are you happy with them? I am slowly putting together a Thompson Center flint lock 50 cal. with a Green Mountain PB barrel and L&R lock, not sure about trigger yet. Thanks!
Bob

Last place I bought them was a place online called Neolithics , decent price and they seem to spark and last as long as anything else I've used they have a variety of different flint/chert available

[vrh]

Powder Valley Inc.

[bob208]

I was at an auction. selling out a part time gun shop. I got all the caps they had about 6000. got about $5 a thousand in them.

[TheOutlawKid]

Bob208 that is one lucky score. Wish i found a deal like that

[jjarrell]

My local source gets me RWS 1075 plus caps for $80 per 1000 including the hazmat fee. Only percussion caps I use. Hottest caps made and waterproof. I let one sit in a glass of water for half an hour. Took it out, blew it off and it fired perfectly.

[Tasbay]

Here CCI #11 caps are $20 a tin. found some recently at $15 a tin (100). A lot of the time when just plinking I use the plastic cap gun caps that come in packs of 72 for $1.50, They work just fine on a No:11 nipple. Made in either China or Taiwan. That's using home made BP.

[bigted]

Remington #11s are $3.19 at one gun shop locally...so i stock up on them when i can. CCI #10 and #11 are $4.95. I only use remington tho but i also make my own percussion caps. I might make a small post on how ive come up with my own special way to make really hot and strong caps.

Yes please. That would be helpful to many.

[Duckdog]

I just made some the other night, even though we can get the around here for about $6 a tin. I use a tap o cap and prime all . 22 Reloader sells a percussion cap maker and the prime all. The prime all makes for a nice hot cap. he has a video out there f him making some.

[toot]

i too would like to have you share the method of how you make tour own percussion caps? also how do i find the video of .22 Reloader making them? thank's toot.