Caps in Stock

[Super Sneaky Steve]

https://muzzle-loaders.com/products/rws-11-percussion-caps-no-1075-250-to-1000-pack-1?_kx=hLtbcuHAO4rtOmSqnNn1YYTxrXbLTIeDdN5-Pl5VOrY.BwF3Xt

Time to break the piggy bank.

$38 for 250

[MUSTANG]

Thats 15.2 cents per - not including shipping. Glad I am making my own at those prices.

[LAGS]

That is a reasonable price for the current times.
But the shipping will jack up the price even more.
I too make my own caps.
But will get some factory ones every once in a while , but when I find them at a good price , and locally to avoid that added shipping costs.

[Super Sneaky Steve]

I make my own caps too, but it takes me at least an hour to make 50. So even at this price that's like working for $7/hour. My time is worth more than that.

[elmacgyver0]

I make my own caps too, but it takes me at least an hour to make 50. So even at this price that's like working for $7/hour. My time is worth more than that.

So what's the problem? just pay the price.

[dondiego]

I make my own caps too, but it takes me at least an hour to make 50. So even at this price that's like working for $7/hour. My time is worth more than that.

Sooo, about a dollar a cap?

[elmacgyver0]

I am always amused by the old line "My time is worth more than that."
So how much do you get paid to sit on your butt drinking a beer watching a football game?

[dondiego]

I am always amused by the old line "My time is worth more than that."
So how much do you get paid to sit on your butt drinking a beer watching a football game?

Doing that is worth about a thousand dollars an hour to me because I am doing it on my time and not someone else that is determining what I am worth on a Saturday............same goes for casting and making caps. I used to tell my boss that I charge $1000 per hour for overtime on Saturdays when I wanted to go fly fishing. He used to laugh! I think that he might have gotten it after he had a debilitating heart attack. Maybe not.

[armoredman]

Haven't seen a cap for sale in Arizona for over 3 years at any price.

Got to Tombstone, found some down there at Smoke Signals in tourist trap town just a few months ago. Not cheap, but hey, it's Tombstone. Yes, there's like 5 gun shops inside the tourist section.
Edit to add - I never cost my time while doing reloading/casting/powder making/etc., because it's my hobby. You want to help rationalize avoiding the effort, by all means and I completely sympathize - I could easily do oil changes on my car, but I hate working on cars so I pay a professional to do it. When it comes to firearms related stuff, it's a fun productive hobby that feeds another - shooting.

[elmacgyver0]

Got to Tombstone, found some down there at Smoke Signals in tourist trap town just a few months ago. Not cheap, but hey, it's Tombstone. Yes, there's like 5 gun shops inside the tourist section.
Edit to add - I never cost my time while doing reloading/casting/powder making/etc., because it's my hobby. You want to help rationalize avoiding the effort, by all means and I completely sympathize - I could easily do oil changes on my car, but I hate working on cars so I pay a professional to do it. When it comes to firearms related stuff, it's a fun productive hobby that feeds another - shooting.

Exactly

[Super Sneaky Steve]

I am always amused by the old line "My time is worth more than that."
So how much do you get paid to sit on your butt drinking a beer watching a football game?

That depends if you're enjoying yourself or not. There's really not much money saved from casting boolits, but I enjoy it so I do it.

Making caps using little tiny scoops and trying to get powder into little tiny cups isn't fun for me. It got me through some hard times but it's anything but fun for me. Maybe it is for you.

[lead chucker]

I make my own. I do it in stages. Make a bunch of cups on a rainy day. I have a aluminum plate with about 150 holes drilled in it that the cups fit in. I have a piece of Plywood that is cut to the same dimensions with a hole drilled in the center. I have a screw that holds them together. Do a little each night and pretty soon you have lots of caps. It's a fun inside project on those nasty days outside.

[n.h.schmidt]

So what does the plywood with one hole do? That needs a little more info for me. I make my own too using the die in a reloading press. Very fast to punch out the cups. Then comes the slow filling to finish.

[2TM101]

I make my own caps too, but it takes me at least an hour to make 50. So even at this price that's like working for $7/hour. My time is worth more than that.

I would agree. But I can actually make mine at work. Since I am still using the Lee hand prime tool and do not have a press with that function built in - I'm priming all my cases on the job too.

Leadchucker- use a tray large primers came in. Perfect size, small and easy to put somewhere while it all dries.

[2TM101]

That depends if you're enjoying yourself or not. There's really not much money saved from casting boolits, but I enjoy it so I do it.

Making caps using little tiny scoops and trying to get powder into little tiny cups isn't fun for me. It got me through some hard times but it's anything but fun for me. Maybe it is for you.

Follow "Times Gone Tech" on YouTube. He is working on a way to mix all of the components together so you can put it wet into the cap. No mess and maybe 4 times faster. At the moment he is trying to overcome occasionally having a bubble instead of a drop, resulting in an empty cap. I will switch to his method if he can get it to work, as it would make filling the caps take less time than actually punching the caps themselves.

[n.h.schmidt]

Is he using the prime-all from the kit? There is no glass provided in the kit. Using a eyedropper will give trouble . The mixture will never be truly be mixed and the prime will settle .

[Super Sneaky Steve]

Follow "Times Gone Tech" on YouTube. He is working on a way to mix all of the components together so you can put it wet into the cap. No mess and maybe 4 times faster. At the moment he is trying to overcome occasionally having a bubble instead of a drop, resulting in an empty cap. I will switch to his method if he can get it to work, as it would make filling the caps take less time than actually punching the caps themselves.

Found it.
https://youtu.be/b6gNVevQ1Dk?si=L9ir6sOUgVfHpY7y

If this works it would really make it more convenient.

Thanks for the tip.

[lead chucker]

The plywood is a backer for the aluminum plate. Once the caps are filled and packed I take a little Red Dot powder and MEK stir till dissolved. Take an eye dropper and put a drop in each one. Hit it with a blow dryer for a minute. The MEK and Red Dot when dry acts like a glue and holds every thing in place. Then separate plywood from aluminum plate and you can push the caps through. Put them in a toaster oven for a half hour on 160F and they are pretty much ready to use. The Red Dot gives the cap a little extra punch, at least I think it does.

[lead chucker]

Another member here turned me on to the blow dryer trick. It works really slick. The blow dryer pretty much makes the MEK evaporate fast and while the compound is still a little soft you can push the caps out of the plate easier. If you wait to long the caps are almost glued into the aluminum plate. This is the way I do it. Been working good for me. If I have a stock pile of cups already made I can make around 150 in a half hour.. That's with out the toaster oven part.

[lead chucker]

I'm out of town right now but when I get back I can up load some pics of my set up if any one wants to see it. I'm sure there is a better faster way to do it. It is time consuming.

[LAGS]

I would love to see your Set Up
I don’t have a special set up but looking at how others do things might help me improve what I do.
As far as this thread.
I don’t look around for primers all the time.
But if I find some , and at a reasonable price I pick them up.
But that doesn’t happen too often, so I don’t have information that will help others.

[Adam Helmer]

Several years ago I saw problems for acquiring caps and primers on the horizon. I sold my hay crop for cash and went to the LGS and bought primers, caps and powder. My wife wondered why "so much" stuff and now she says I "did good."

Last Saturday we had a local gun show. Prices were huge for powder, primers, caps and old military arms. I came home to the farm and appreciated my stash. I also increased my gun insurance.

Adam

[lead chucker]

I've been staying at my sisters in polson Montana and went to Merdocks and they didn't have any. Ben going back and forth to Kalispell every day. Dads been in the hospital up there but haven't taken the time to check out the stores there. Long days at the hospital and all the stress that goes with it. I haven't taken the time to look and see what is available. Merdocks had a lot of ammo and powder. I did get to Walmart and get some pillow ticking three different sizes. I cant take any caps on the air plane back to Alaska but its always fun to check out what's available and what there asking for it. There are no stores that sell caps or powder where I live in Alaska so that's why I make my own.

[armoredman]

Haven't seen a cap for sale in Arizona for over 3 years at any price.

@AZ Muzzleloaders - I found Remington #10s at Scheels in Chandler a few days ago for $9.99 per tin.

[rbuck351]

At a gun show last weekend I watched a vendor sell 4 or 5 tins of # 11 caps for $20 a tin. These prices make me glad I stocked up over the last 40 years on most everything shooting related I will need for the rest of my days.

[scattershot]

I am always amused by the old line "My time is worth more than that."
So how much do you get paid to sit on your butt drinking a beer watching a football game?

Exactly.

[Boerrancher]

Grafs in Mexico has #11 caps, RWS mfg. They have a limit of three, 250 ct tins, at $39.00 per tin, that does not include a $12.95 shipping fee, and a $23.50 Hazmat. I will be in the area on Tuesday and grab 3 tins or more if they let me. If you bought 3 tins and paid for all the fees, the caps would cost you $0.205 each. Glad I only use caps for my revolvers, and thank goodness I got smart and went 100% rock lock with my long guns.