is percussion caps getting hard to get?

[BlackNet]

Was wondering if it's just me or is #11 percussions caps getting harder and harder to find now? I was told prices went up on them and the club tells me places are running out of stock.

 

[sundance44s]

Every thing gun related is hard to find right now...every thing I need anyway ........the only thing I haven`t had a hard time finding is real black powder ...I ordered a case from Powder Inc and it came with in the week . locally I can`t find squat .

 

[ATAShooter]

I have found them a tad harder to find in stock. I still manage to get them, but not as easy as before.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

It's not a problem for us rock-lock shooters! You guys should come over to the dark side and get a flintlock or two.

LD

 

[sundance44s]

I may have to get my flintlocks back out if things get any worse . They do make great back up for hard times .

 

[Speedo66]

The caps probably use the same priming compound as regular primers, which are tough to find.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

I have a couple a hundred caps. Ifin ya don't shoot them six guns alot, and use the caplock rifle or the SxS shotgun, ya don't run out as fast neither!

I suspect all you Josey Wales types might be running a little low.

It is probably simple economics. You produce what you make the most money on with the lowest per unit cost in this type of economy, and put the additional products on "hold"..., so if it comes down to primers and caps, they would produce the primers to meet ammo needs (and there is a run on fixed military rifle and standard SD handgun ammo and components right now so those companies are sucking up primers in a bad way) and hold on the caps.

LD

 

[Voodoochile]

Tis why I bought a bunch when I could, got some where around 1000 vacuum sealed & around 800 - 1000 to use.

 

[arcticap]

I saw Remington among others at my local Cabela's for $6 a tin. Some Walmarts are now selling tins of Winchester which are identical to CCI.

>>>>> http://www.gamaliel.com/cart/home.php?cat=351 <<<<<

This next outfit has Remington for $4 among others and the Hazmat and shipping fees can be combined with substitute powder up to a total of 48 lbs.. The UPS Hazmat surcharge is $22.50.

>>>>> http://www.powdervalleyinc.com/ <<<<<

http://www.rrarms.com/catalog.php?search=percussion+caps&submit.x=12&submit.y=5

http://www.midsouthshooterssupply.com/department.asp?dept=MUZZLELOADING&dept2=COMPONENTS&dept3=CAPS

Someone here bought 1 tin from Dixie without any Hazmat fee:

http://www.dixiegunworks.com/advanced_search_result.php?s=1&keywords=percussion+cap

http://www.grafs.com/powders/3532

 

[GENTLEMAN OF THE CHARCOAL]

All ammo and ammo related items are becoming extremely hard to find and when you do find them they are very expensive. They're going to get harder to find to, you just wait a little while and you will see.
Thankfully, caps are just like powder and not hard to make if you just follow a few simple rules.
Don't mean to launch off into a sermon here but I can tell ya'll right now that there are various groups and elements in this country that are bound and determined that any and all types of firearms will end up as nothing more than a club to smack someone over the head with. I knew when I got back from the 'Nam and found out about the 1968 Federal Gun Control Act that if I managed to live what is considered to be a full and normal life span that I would see this day.
There's one thing they may have not given any serious consideration to though. That's all these good ol' boys that will be in their basements, out in their barns, in the mountains, in the caves, just where ever they can find a place to set up shop, and the steel lathes and the wood lathes and the powder mills and the cap stamping machines will be running around the clock. "Man, I need some caps. I ain't got any money. You know how things are for everybody right now."
"Got anything to trade for some?"
" I got some cabbage, cucumbers, a few tomatoes and a little coffee. I need some caps to take care of my family."
" What you have is fine. We can trade. Come on in."
Well, why not? When I was borned in the back room at home in those Alabama hills so long ago, Daddy paid 9 ears of corn, 14 ripe tomatoes, 9 green tomatoes, and a mess of okra to the doctor. That was his bill, and I think I heard Daddy say one time that he also gave him 2 quarts of homebrew to sip on along the way..

 

[Elbert P . Suggins]

GOTC, you might be just right about everything drying up as far as components. I am close to your age as far as I can determine from your posts which I am 61. I lost sleep over Y2K and got suckered into that but I do believe there is something going on with these shortages that are NOT going to get better regardless of what people say. I love BP and the ability to defend myself and my loved lones and will do it the best way I know how. I bought 500 rounds of .223 for a Ruger Ranch Rifle with a Burrus ballistic plex last week and I know that another 3000 rounds would be on the way next week if I so decided and wished to pay for it. If I can't drop the invasion forces with that amount of ammo I must look for other ways and my 58s, 60s, and ROA aren't my option.

 

[Matt-J2]

I haven't had a problem getting them lately at all. Course, they don't seem real popular around here at the calmest of times, so I guess now in all this buying frenzy they're being overlooked. Only problem is, stores don't keep as many on hand for that very reason.

 

[Shultzhaus]

Gander Mtn. in York PA has lots of caps. Rem.10s & 11s - cci 10s & 11s, and a new stock item Winchwester Magnum 11s.

 

[GENTLEMAN OF THE CHARCOAL]

Yeah, Mr. Suggins, we're about the same age, I'm 60 years old, getting close to 61.

 

[bigbadgun]

I can get any caps any size in my area because the gun stores carry them and there aint alot of bp guys around here.

 

[BlackNet]

OK how about this. Who has the cheapest price on RWS #11 percussion caps? Also who has the cheapest price on CCI #11 caps? Going to be ordering 10,000 for the club soon.

 

[Gambit88]

No problem finding caps, but finding balls in .454 is damn near impossable around here. I cant even find .451. Only .50 sized balls. Hell Im probably gonna cast my own soon enough.

 

[sundance44s]

I bought RWS caps for my rifles last time ...at the Sportsmanswarehouse here they were 3.25 a tin ..CCI were higher ..and I like the RWS caps better ..they seem hotter these days ..Cabelas has a good price by the case on caps ..

 

[DutchmanDick]

Glad I bought a pile of caps BEFORE there was a panic! What I have should last a good while...musket caps, #10, #11...anybody drooling with envy, yet?

I DID, however, just order a 20 gauge Northwest Trade Gun kit from Sitting Fox custom muzzleloaders, and a dozen English flints and a .600 round ball mold from DGW, plus 25 pounds of KIK Holy Black (12 lbs. FFFg, 13 lbs FFg) from Powder Inc., just in case...

 

[sundance44s]

Nope I got mine ..