Poor quality #11 caps

[randyt]

I've noticed CCI caps coming into the marketplace. I've bought a few tins to keep stocked up.

I have heard the quality control on these caps is bad.
Any thoughts?

 

[Are. M.]

I've used new stock next to my old stock and haven't run into any issues. They've been used reliably on everything from revolvers and target pistols to 4-H club guns.

 

[QuinnTheEskimo]

It’s not too hard to find someone that will say that every company has poor quality control. In most cases there’s at least some operator error involved. All it takes is a cap or primer not fully seated.

 

[FishDFly]

I've noticed CCI caps coming into the marketplace. I've bought a few tins to keep stocked up.

I have heard the quality control on these caps is bad.
Any thoughts?

Why post negative on a product with no actual experience?

 

[Okie Hog]

I have heard the quality control on these caps is bad.
Any thoughts?

Lots of posters on gun boards say lots of stuff, some is true some not. Some blame caps for lack of proper muzzleloader maintenance,

 

[82ndPA]

New video from Ethan on the issue...

 

[Muzzle57]

It’s not too hard to find someone that will say that every company has poor quality control. In most cases there’s at least some operator error involved. All it takes is a cap or primer not fully seated.

Or a weak main spring.

It’s not too hard to find someone that will say that every company has poor quality control. In most cases there’s at least some operator error involved. All it takes is a cap or primer not fully seated.

It’s not too hard to find someone that will say that every company has poor quality control. In most cases there’s at least some operator error involved. All it takes is a cap or primer not fully seated.

Or a weak main spring

 

[sussexmuzllodr]

Plenty of posts here on how to make your own.

 

[Muzzle57]

Plenty of posts here on how to make your own.

That's what I do

 

[64Springer]

Why post negative on a product with no actual experience?

From The Actual Experience News Desk: Why stand up for Crappy Caps Incorporated when they make the worst primers on the planet?

My muzzleloaders are properly set up and meticulously maintained. And CCI caps have failed to detonate time and time and time again.

There's a valid reason why the entire country is talking about how bad CCI percussion caps have gotten. Because the tales are 100% true.

I'll never buy another tin of CCI caps. But I will buy TOTW musket nipples and Schutzen musket caps. They work EVERY time.

 

[Okie Hog]

Ethans caps are not recent CCI manufacture. They are 5-10 years old.: They are stamped 100-310. New manufacture #11 CCI caps have 100-311.

IMO: Ethans caps have been wet.

Several years ago i gave some CCI #11 caps to a local shooter and hunter. A year or two later the guy claimed those caps were no good. No good was right; the guy stored his caps, bullets and powder in a bucket in the garage beside an open window: Everything was ruined.

 

[64Springer]

I bought several tins of the 311s.

Not only were they as brown as the ones in the video, several in a row failed to detonate.

Mr. Ethan was being generous with his 10% failure rate. It's actually much greater.

I don't know why you guys insist on going to bat for a product that is very clearly sub-par.

 

[sussexmuzllodr]

they dont want us to have a good supply. next up Ohio Blue tip matches....

 

[Okie Hog]

I don't know why you guys insist on going to bat for a product that is very clearly sub-par.

Sub par, my @$$. Sorry you can't make CCI caps work. Try maintaining your gun.

 

[AlexB]

I find the DIY caps with primeall to be more reliable than the newly purchased cci#11 magnums.

 

[Muzzle57]

I find the DIY caps with primeall to be more reliable than the newly purchased cci#11 magnums.

My homemade caps are a tad hotter than the cci I've used. Out of several hundred I've yet to have one not fire. Prolly just jinxed myself.

 

[64Springer]

Sub par, my @$$. Sorry you can't make CCI caps work. Try maintaining your gun.

My muzzleloaders are as clean and mechanically sound as the day they were made.

All of them.

The unmens too.

Are you and others saying ALL of these cap failures, nationally, are due to EVERYONE not maintaining their firearms?

Or are politics coming into play here?

 

[randyt]

Thanks for the replies folks. Due to my job I don't have a typical 9to5 weekends off job. My time off is late November till January. I didn't want to buy a bunch of caps just to find out there was a quality control issue. And then late November caps were not to be found. It seemed prudent to ask.

 

[Ed C.]

No politics here. Am I the only one in the US that has not had a problem with CCI caps? Maybe because I store them properly?

 

[Okie Hog]

ALL of these cap failures, nationally, are due to EVERYONE not maintaining their firearms?

But most misfires are the result of neglect and improper cleaning/preparation for firing.

Why do you badmouth and cauterwaul every time the subject of CCI caps come up. Most muzzleloader folks are aware your claims are false.

Simply don't buy the things.