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The local Wal-Mart has the CCI four wing musket caps on clearance for $2.00 for a hundred. I have a GPR that I can send to TOW for a proper Nipple to use. Would using these be safe and not hurt the accuracy of the Lyman ??
 
Depending on your hammer alignment they may or may not work being larger. I would say buy all you can and now you have an excuse to buy a rifle musket.
 
VERY good advise. I'm somewhat of an opportunist. Once I was at J&G gun sales and noted they were having a BP clearance as they no longer wished to deal in BP. Low :shocked2: ....Horanady Great Plains .45 at 20 for $2.00? Bought all eleven boxes. Problem was I didn't have a .45 :hmm: I now have a .45 :grin:
 
Yep,
The old "Honey, I had to buy the $400+ gun to realize the $200 savings on the bullets."
The sun comes up and the sun goes down and that's just the way it is.
 
Bigger is not necessarily better. You don't need them. Regular caps are just fine, that is why they have been the standard since day one. IMHO, you will just waste money switching to musket caps. And, you might need to modify or change the hammer on your rifle to use them.
 
I used musket caps on my 3-band .58-cal. Pattern 1853 Enfield rifle musket for more than 30 years and they never failed to work, but I don't use them on my .50-cal. GPR or Renegade. The No. 11s have never failed me yet in 40 years. Musket caps on a rifle made for No. 11 caps is overkill, but that's just me. As long as my rifles are cleaned properly and lubed, they have always fired 100% of the time with No. 11s. Decent musket caps have gotten hard to find, other than reenactor caps. I still have one tin of German musket caps left I'm hoarding for my Enfield, and I just use it for living history demonstrations these days. Still, you got a great bargain on those caps.
Interestingly, I did the reverse: I bought a TOW nipple that fits my Enfield but uses No. 11 caps, and it works fine with them. I can find No. 11 caps all day cheap at Walmart or Academy.
 
CCI "Re-enactor" caps are junk. They have a tiny unreliable charge. So, if they say that on the tin don't buy.

IF they are the regular ones, buy them.

I prefer real musket caps over #11s. They are more sure fire and easier to handle. RWS musket caps are always good.
 
Absolutely agree that RWS musket caps made by Dynamit Nobel are the absolute best.

I think the use of Musket Cap nipples on sporting rifles came about when it was sometimes hard to find good No.11 caps in the 70's/early 80's. Back then, CCI No.11 caps were pure junk, so I'm pleased to see they have improved.

RWS No.11 caps have always been my first choice for sporting rifles and revolvers as well, but I'm not sure if they are available much anymore? I used to get them at NSSA Spring and Fall National Championship shoots for many years.

Gus
 
You will get an increased volume of discharge gas from them, so your reliability may go up, as well as shortened lock speed / barrel dwell time. It would be an interesting science experiment for Pletch to do to see if he has any emperical data on it.
 
I bought 400 of the reenactor caps before I had a rifle for them. Now have an Enfield and a Mississippi, and the caps work for me. Just lucky, I guess...
 
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