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Title: Percussion Caps
Post by: Greg Massey on May 20, 2022, 12:24:16 PM
When's the last time you have seen any of these on the retail shelf ... I was at Dixie Gun Works in Union City Tennessee just over a year ago and they had just a few  of the CCI number 11 Qty 100 .... I'm shooting the bigger musket caps,  they had a few of these and for 100 of the CCI they were 12 dollars ... she said this was all they had at the time...
Title: Re: Percussion Caps
Post by: Gooserbat on May 20, 2022, 01:08:38 PM
I've saw a few places with them
Title: Re: Percussion Caps
Post by: Sir-diealot on May 20, 2022, 03:00:32 PM
I wish I could mail you some, I have some that ended up being the wrong size for my gun. (they put wrong nipple on the gun, spring would not set them off)
Title: Re: Percussion Caps
Post by: Greg Massey on May 20, 2022, 04:18:41 PM
Quote from: Sir-diealot on May 20, 2022, 03:00:32 PM
I wish I could mail you some, I have some that ended up being the wrong size for my gun. (they put wrong nipple on the gun, spring would not set them off)
Thanks for the offer , but i have plenty for now ....
Title: Re: Percussion Caps
Post by: Sir-diealot on May 20, 2022, 06:27:58 PM
Quote from: Greg Massey on May 20, 2022, 04:18:41 PM
Quote from: Sir-diealot on May 20, 2022, 03:00:32 PM
I wish I could mail you some, I have some that ended up being the wrong size for my gun. (they put wrong nipple on the gun, spring would not set them off)
Thanks for the offer , but i have plenty for now ....
You're quite welcome.
Title: Re: Percussion Caps
Post by: TRG3 on May 21, 2022, 11:34:22 PM
My T/C Thunderhawk .50 caliber inline as well as my .50 caliber T/C Hawken uses the #11 caps. I've got several tins of them and found it necessary to slightly pinch them out-of-round to get them to stay on the nipple.
Title: Re: Percussion Caps
Post by: Wisgobbler on May 22, 2022, 12:02:26 AM
https://sharpshooter-22lr-reloader.myshopify.com/products/11-percussion-cap-maker

I shoot a custom .58 Hawken style gun a lot. It's one of my favorite ways to hunt big game. I bought one of these and it works pretty darn well.


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Title: Re: Percussion Caps
Post by: crow on May 22, 2022, 05:21:45 PM
You wouldn't have this problem if you stayed with a flintlock, If the good English flints get scarce you
just walk on down to a stream and pick up a couple pieces of chert rock, chip a little edge on it and there you go
Title: Re: Percussion Caps
Post by: Greg Massey on May 22, 2022, 06:04:58 PM
Quote from: crow on May 22, 2022, 05:21:45 PM
You wouldn't have this problem if you stayed with a flintlock, If the good English flints get scarce you
just walk on down to a stream and pick up a couple pieces of chert rock, chip a little edge on it and there you go
In my area all the streams are sand and water ... and most have dead things floating in them...
Title: Re: Percussion Caps
Post by: crow on May 23, 2022, 05:58:09 PM
Quote from: Greg Massey on May 22, 2022, 06:04:58 PM
Quote from: crow on May 22, 2022, 05:21:45 PM
You wouldn't have this problem if you stayed with a flintlock, If the good English flints get scarce you
just walk on down to a stream and pick up a couple pieces of chert rock, chip a little edge on it and there you go
In my area all the streams are sand and water ... and most have dead things floating in them...



Was in Cocke Co. several years ago and couldn't believe the amount of black flint laying on top of the ground, didn't have time to check it out, might have been an old encampment site.