FREE Percussion Caps!

[BigSkyRambler]

OK. I'm not giving away percussion caps. Im talking about the negatives in getting them free. I often get a bag of accessories with rifles I buy. Stuff like powder horns and flasks - often full of powder, measures, round balls, and percussion caps. I am usually excited about the latter, but not always. The thing is, these things can be over 50 years old. Hard to say unless tin has a date stamp. Take these CVA "Hot Flash" caps. Not sure how old, but 1 in 2 don't go BANG! So into the garbage. Need to test my other "free" percussion caps.

 

[Bad Karma]

You son of a gun!


I’ll bet you get a bunch of guys hot for those caps!!!

 

[azmntman]

I would have returned them myself LOL

COOL ARSED TIN THOUGH!

 

[Songwriter]

The tin has a zip code, so they can't be older than 1963.

 

[Steve Wagner]

Rambler, free powder and free caps and you are griping that you can only bat .500 with them. C'mon man, don't be an ingrate. Just use the good caps and quit wasting time with the duds. Better yet, save the duds for your home cap making kit. SW

 

[BigSkyRambler]

Rambler, free powder and free caps and you are griping that you can only bat .500 with them. C'mon man, don't be an ingrate. Just use the good caps and quit wasting time with the duds. Better yet, save the duds for your home cap making kit. SW

I have so little to whine about these days that I have to nit pick.

 

[waarp8nt]

I've gotten some of the red and blue plastic containers of caps and they shoot fine. Mostly in boxes of stuff at aictions. Dixie I believe, would have to look to be sure.

The old tins are neat for sure. I have a few old one I'm sure proud to own.

 

[Urban Coyote]

I was given a partial tin of very old CCI #11 caps several years ago. They came out of an old cabinet a non-shooter friend bought to repurpose. As a matter of fact just a day or two ago I finally pried the tin apart to free them. Whoever had last closed the tin wedged an old price sticker between the top and bottom of the tin. The compound in these caps looks a bit lighter in color than some fresher CCI caps I have. I'm anxious to find out if they are still good.

 

[BigSkyRambler]

I was given a partial tin of very old CCI #11 caps several years ago. They came out of an old cabinet a non-shooter friend bought to repurpose. As a matter of fact just a day or two ago I finally pried the tin apart to free them. Whoever had last closed the tin wedged an old price sticker between the top and bottom of the tin. The compound in these caps looks a bit lighter in color than some fresher CCI caps I have. I'm anxious to find out if they are still good.

The primer compound more susceptible to moisture, etc. Than black powder. I am slowly working my way through 400 rounds of Belgian .45 ACP hardball that is all bad, with an alarming number of squibs. I am using an impact bullet puller and saving bullets and brass.

 

[Johnny Tremain]

CVA might want them for a museum.

 

[Urban Coyote]

I was given a partial tin of very old CCI #11 caps several years ago. They came out of an old cabinet a non-shooter friend bought to repurpose. As a matter of fact just a day or two ago I finally pried the tin apart to free them. Whoever had last closed the tin wedged an old price sticker between the top and bottom of the tin. The compound in these caps looks a bit lighter in color than some fresher CCI caps I have. I'm anxious to find out if they are still good.

They worked perfectly!

 

[Antonio Ferraioli]

If anyone has old tins etc and you do not collect them, Back Creek Powder in VA has a little museum of BP stuff, I know he would welcome anything you have.

 

[Darto]

Back in my day we used to walk 4 miles to bring back our empties for credit.

Sol Greenstein's Caps and Flints in Bennetville

 

[Darto]

His wife Esther had to make coonskin caps all day. You could hear her complaining behind the curtain, "He promised to keep me in furs"!

 

[sheriff john]

Old caps tend to be more "disappointing: than "Devastating". Quite often, the priming disc has fallen completely out of the caps ..especially those carried about in a capper. Then, again, sometimes I've run across really old caps that shot just fine...??

 

[ETipp]

I would take all the old caps I can get. I wouldn't use them for shooting but they would be good for after cleaning to dry snap before loading.