Percussion Caps

[Crew Chief]

I just checked on their www and they state that after 4-15-2021 no caps will be shipped or sold! I too made a fair size order today from The Gun Works and did not try ordering caps which I could use as well. Hope you can locate some. good luck.

I missed the 2021. She did say they had some but not for shipping.

 

[Diplomat22]

If you want to try making your own I think a small TORX head screwdriver might work.

 

[Southern Bamboo]

Every one of those sites are scams.

That's funny.

I worked in Financial Services on Zelle (was Zashpay when at Fiserv internally).

Cash App, PP F&F (keeps them from getting a fee), Zelle (email cash to people) and others from reputable sources are perfectly fine.

Now, they may take your cash and not send you the merchandise, but that has been happening with plain 'ol cash and check since the dawn of time.

You may not like them, but those services are perfectly reputable. I use them all the time. Just sayin'.

 

[Grenadier1758]

The financial services may be reputable but in many of these offerings for percussion caps, blackpowder and some gun sales, the sellers are not as @Southern Bamboo states. Many of those services have no recourse to recover the funds if the seller does not live up to the offering.

 

[Andy Q.]

Percussion caps maker tool could be a good alternative, but ( in my opinion ) only if we can produce the priming compound by ourselves to avoid to purchase it from the store.

 

[Joe B.]

Bass Pro used to have them on the website and the store/ship to store. No more. Yet they sell the guns, and cap boxes. What gives? Not a conspiracy theorist, ...yet

 

[MaterielGeneral]

I just recieved the #10 and #11 percussion cap makers with the Prime-All priming compound from www.22lrreloader.com

The percussion cap makers were $50.00 each and the priming compound was $20.00 with enough chemical for 2000 percussion caps. I have not used them yet, but the YouTube videos were good reviews and the online journals were good also.

 

[BozoMiller]

#11 Percussion Cap Maker

Anyone ever try this? It looks promising. Also GunBroker has them listed, from a few sellers.

 

[Nor'Easter]

#11 Percussion Cap Maker

Anyone ever try this? It looks promising. Also GunBroker has them listed, from a few sellers.

I think if you do a search on this forum there are several threads about the tools and what people have found to work and not work.

 

[MaterielGeneral]

#11 Percussion Cap Maker

Anyone ever try this? It looks promising. Also GunBroker has them listed, from a few sellers.

Read my post above. Then look on YouTube and you'll see a ton of videos where people are using them.

 

[MaterielGeneral]

I need to get off my butt and try out those percussion cap makers that I bought.

 

[Gtrubicon]

I have and use the percussion cap maker. It works very well.

 

[springfield art]

You are right, but there is a group here from the last rodeo who did not prepare for this one.

Yeah, I call the last rodeo "the Hillary Scare"; this time, we had Joe along with the pandemic, and all of the riots last year. If you don't prepare for a potential THIRD rodeo, you're out of touch.

 

[FishDFly]

Part of the problem when caps become available is going to be mass panic buying which will cause even more of shortages. It will be a long time before if ever things return to what it was like in years past.

It has been reported that Remington will have caps available soon, there are no reports from CCI on when.

Other than Remington and CCI, there are no U.S. caps manufactured.

 

[Andy Q.]

It would be useful to know the formula of the compound to be completely independent from the market....and make percussion caps at home....

 

[Nor'Easter]

It would be useful to know the formula of the compound to be completely independent from the market....and make percussion caps at home....

You beat me to it. I am interested also.

 

[MaterielGeneral]

It would be useful to know the formula of the compound to be completely independent from the market....and make percussion caps at home....

You beat me to it. I am interested also.

I just opened up the package of prime all priming compound and read the instructions and it did not give the names of the chemicals used.

 

[springfield art]

Part of the problem when caps become available is going to be mass panic buying which will cause even more of shortages. It will be a long time before if ever things return to what it was like in years past.

It has been reported that Remington will have caps available soon, there are no reports from CCI on when.

Other than Remington and CCI, there are no U.S. caps manufactured.

The guys who reload modern ammo also have problems getting primers, (AKA; caps) and other loading stuff. At least flint is going to be around another few million years!

 

[MaterielGeneral]

The guys who reload modern ammo also have problems getting primers, (AKA; caps) and other loading stuff. At least flint is going to be around another few million years!

Unless something weird happens and the gov says you cant use it. I better shut up before I give them ideas.

 

[FishDFly]

Yep, there is a shortage of flints to be bought right now from vendors, would you like a list of them?