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In the 40's today so out I go. Opened up a new tin of Rem #11's and kept getting "duds". At first I just figured the charge fell out but after getting three duds out of maybe 10 I knew there was a problem. I had even been checking caps to make sure the charge was intact. After paying more attention I noticed that after a "click" and no boom that there was a tiny piece of foil in the nipple hole when I removed to bad cap. And no there has no way in Hades that I was gonna do something stupid to cause an AD so I l just looked in the tin (not using a capper today ) and found a cap with a nice robust charge in it. Holy white smoke appeare! When I looked at this tin of 100 caps the consistency was incredibly poor. Some caps have almost no charge and many look normal . There is also everything in between 0-100%. Very disappointing and not a lot of confidence using a capper in the field while hunting.
There would be no point in contacting Remington at this point as I bought 1000 caps many years ago. And also the fact is that this is the first "dud batch" I've come across and I'm into tin 7 right now. Not a bixch session but more of an observation of an unfortunate part of mass production. I'm wondering how many of you have encountered a problem with a batch of duds. Never had them in my Nobel 1075's but I'm not at the bottom of that box either.
 
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I usually have good luck with just about any brand of caps.
A year or two ago, I was at the range and opened a new tin of CCI #11 caps. There were a lot of duds in that tin, nearly half was as you described.
 
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I had a tin of old Remingtons a number of years ago where a number of the charges fell out of the caps. Being cheap I put the charge back in the empty caps and most fired. I used the tin for plinking but not for serious target or hunting. Later purchased new ones were fine.
 

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I've been buying percussion caps since the 1960s and can't recall any problems right off hand. I noticed some caps had lost the little piece of foil - I think they were Remington but can't swear to it - while still in the tin. As I recall they all still fired.
 

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I bought four tins of Remington caps from a friend last spring, several didn't have any priming material. I don't recall seeing any foil though.

Some people have commented about having misfires with recently produced CCI caps. I've fired over two tins of them without a single misfire.
 
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Man that is frustrating. As William Bendix would comment on his sitcom in a previous lifetime -- What a revolting development that is !
Last time out I was getting used to a New Englander caplock. And I used CCI caps that I KNOW ere over 20 years old. Bang every time.
I quit Remington anything reloading decades ago.
 

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I've never liked Remington ammo, rifle or shotgun. The caps were sold to me as a favor when caps were pretty much unobtainable. I was just happy to have something to shoot my new build with.
 
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Unlike old black powder, old caps tend to be more "disappointing" than "devastating". Still fooling with caps from the 60's, some earlier, just to get rid of them. Useful to see if you have a flinch, even possibly cure it, but not much else. Some are corrosive. Don't trust old caps.

One other thing. Some (even newer ones) lost their priming after being carried around in cappers.
 
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Man that is frustrating. As William Bendix would comment on his sitcom in a previous lifetime -- What a revolting development that is !
Last time out I was getting used to a New Englander caplock. And I used CCI caps that I KNOW ere over 20 years old. Bang every time.
I quit Remington anything reloading decades ago.

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The newer Remington caps work very well. The older ones had a gold foil disc containing the priming compound which sometimes fell out of the cap. That problem was fixed years ago.
Yes, I recall that. It wasn’t much of a problem for me but some folks had other experiences.
 
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I have some CVA caps that look like they were made by CCI . I purchased these in the 90's and they still work good. I have one more can but I have shot about a hundred in the last 12 months with no failures . I also have a can of Remington's about the same vintage and have shot 20 if them recently with no problems. Before we elected our current president I bought a good supply of #11's and # 10's ( all CCI) and have had no problems with them.
 
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A friend gave me a box of M/L stuff that a dying friend gave him, my friend didn't shoot black powder so he gave the stuff to me. In the box were 3 tins of very old CCI primers, a rough dating of the other items told me the caps were probably from the 70s.

I gave them a try when I was sighting in one of my TCs, they went off but not every time. I will use them up while shooting from a bench but not trust them when I am hunting and have a deer in my sights.
 

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