Does anyone know a reliable source for number 11 reg. or Mag. caps?
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Percussion caps
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Not sure where you're at, but Presque Isle Gun Shop has CCI #11's in stock if you live close.
Nope.
It's an issue with ALL the manufactures and distributors that has been plaguing us for a few years now.
They do become available fairly frequently, but quickly sell out.
All you can do is continue efforts in search of,, along with everyone else.
Good luck,
It's an issue with ALL the manufactures and distributors that has been plaguing us for a few years now.
They do become available fairly frequently, but quickly sell out.
All you can do is continue efforts in search of,, along with everyone else.
Good luck,
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These folks might help you out until things get better,
https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/threads/home-made-caps.156551/
They are discussing making your own home made caps and the gadget can be bought on eBay.
https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/threads/home-made-caps.156551/
They are discussing making your own home made caps and the gadget can be bought on eBay.
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Ingredient can be found here: RL0810 Prime-All Compound for Reloading
Tool can be found here:
https://www.dixiegunworks.com/index/page/product/product_id/9716
Really no point in doing it the hard way, if you watch YT videos you'll see with the tool it's fast and easy. Buy and use the tool until you have a good grasp of it, this will solve your cap shortage problem with a 99% success rate until they appear available again which may be soon since a couple of new plants are being created for cap supply and demand. Better learn all you can asap because the videos will be demonetized and took down eventually!
Tool can be found here:
https://www.dixiegunworks.com/index/page/product/product_id/9716
Really no point in doing it the hard way, if you watch YT videos you'll see with the tool it's fast and easy. Buy and use the tool until you have a good grasp of it, this will solve your cap shortage problem with a 99% success rate until they appear available again which may be soon since a couple of new plants are being created for cap supply and demand. Better learn all you can asap because the videos will be demonetized and took down eventually!
thanks got the kit ordered
SLOTHEAD
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91901 doesn’t sound like near Erie.
Correct.
I don't recall seeing anything in the location when I posted. Or if that's a zip code and it was there, it didn't register.
I beleive he went with a kit for making them anyway.
I just bought CCI #11 caps from KY Gun Co. $10.99 a can and no hazmat fee.
https://www.kygunco.com/product/cci-311-11-percussion-cap-100
https://www.kygunco.com/product/cci-311-11-percussion-cap-100
No such thing as a reliable source for anything these days. Good plan is to buy stuff you use on a regular basis and keep a stock pile to draw on when the well runs dry. Locally, I have found caps recently at Fleet Farm and Scheels. As I have enough for a while, I left them for somebody else, but I generally buy them a thousand at a time.
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Caps? Bigfoot is hording them me thinks. 
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On the rack in Old Town Maine, $12 tin, CCI. All you need.
I just bought caps for $21.50 per tin. Will be looking into a Tap O Cap and rolls of caps.
Yikes, I beat the $21.50 at a gunshow, and the guy knew how difficult they were to get. I paid $15 each 100 and should have grabbed the other 3 tins he had while I was there. Was being the nice guy and leaving a few for the next person. Not sure I'll do that again.
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Wow, that’s definitely the highest price I’ve heard of. That’s insane.
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I left them all.
I only have one cap gun, and I was able to pick magnums up over the last 36 months for 5.99 a tin. Now I'm sitting on 8 tins and shot nothing but flint for 3 years.
I only have one cap gun, and I was able to pick magnums up over the last 36 months for 5.99 a tin. Now I'm sitting on 8 tins and shot nothing but flint for 3 years.
I haven't had a cap gun since the 90's. With all of the talk about not being able to find caps, I just gritted my teeth and spent the money. I am going to buy a Tap O Cap and try to corner the market on roll caps. I will also learn how to make powder. I have about 200 lbs. of lead, so I am set for quite some time.
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Oh I don’t blame you for buying them, you gotta do what you gotta do. I’ve paid close to $15 for some. It’s just hard to swallow. I’d check out the cap making kits from 22 LR too.
I paid $21.50 for a tin two weeks ago while I was waiting for my rifle to come in. Yesterday I received my number 11 prime all kit. Today it was raining so I spent the day making 100 caps. I put them in the oven at 170° for approximately 45 minutes to dry them out so that I could test them today and they work well. I also took an Eley CB cap .22 pulled the bullet and put some prime all mixture in that and dried it out and that also worked really well.
