Number 10 percussion caps

[RWMC]

Have any of you recently had success in locating number 10 percussion caps?

I have quite a few number 11‘s, but they seem to be a tad bit too large for my cap and ball revolvers, and I get tired of trying to pinch each one to make them fit snug. Thanks for your help!

 

[Lyle]

#10 caps are almost impossible to find. #11 caps are what is available sometimes. I put Slixshot nipples on both of my navies. They use #11 caps fine. My homemade caps only fit the factory nipples, so I switch nipples depending on the caps I am using.

 

[brewer12345]

I this market it is easier to simply switch nipples rather than find 10s. I can tell you that if and when 10s are plentiful again, I would like to buy a few thousand of the remington 10s.

 

[VMC]

A few weeks ago I found two tins at Cabela's so I thought they must be available again. When I returned last week the peg hook they were displayed on was gone so I guess they are still unavailable for them to order.

 

[JamesSh@@ter]

About the only place to find caps is Gunbrokers. Most are bid to crazy prices. But if you go to Gunbrokers and do a search for Bosley, you see several pages of his items for sale. Look on the last page, #7 right now and he has CCI #10 for $120 per 1000 pack. Add $30 for shipping. Instant checkout. Cheapest I've seen. I'm making my own caps for now. That is working out pretty good for me.

 

[JCooperfan1911]

The demand for percussion caps right now is probably the highest it’s been since 1865.

 

[lv2tinker]

About the only place to find caps is Gunbrokers. Most are bid to crazy prices. But if you go to Gunbrokers and do a search for Bosley, you see several pages of his items for sale. Look on the last page, #7 right now and he has CCI #10 for $120 per 1000 pack. Add $30 for shipping. Instant checkout. Cheapest I've seen. I'm making my own caps for now. That is working out pretty good for me.

Thanks for the heads-up on CCI#10 Caps. Just ordered some.

 

[JamesSh@@ter]

I would get some of the CCI #10s if they would fit my stock Pietta nipples. Tried some and they was hard to force them on with a push stick, and about half didn't fire till the second time around. First time was probably seating them better... I thought about turning down my stock nipples, probably work but would make them a little thinner. I could buy nipples, but might get the same as I have now. Guess I'll keep making caps!

 

[Ugly Sauce]

On my Slix-Shots, and some stainless ones I put on my Remington and 1860, that the CCI #11's are a good tight fit, with no miss-fires. I do press them on with the hammer, which is scary to some, but I make sure the gun is pointed in a safe direction. (duh!) and I do it with the attitude that it WILL go off, not MIGHT go off. I have never had a cap go off. Anyhow, the fit seems to be the opposite of other's experience...nice and tight instead of loose.???

Can you no longer order #11's directly from CCI? That's how I got mine, somewhat recently.

I found, that with my revolvers, that the Remington caps fragment a little better than the CCI's. For me, they fall off the nipples better. The CCI's seem to be more sturdy, and want to remain on the nipples. I prefer they fall off.

Pinching caps is not a good solution, I hope a better remedy is found. I wouldn't worry about making the cones too thin if turning them down, it will take very little metal removal to do that.

 

[Jackrabbit1957]

What works for me is to reduce the shank size to .165 to .174 about halfway down the cone. .174 is the preference. #11 caps will fit snug but still split off when fired.

 

[earlthegoat2]

I fell rear end over tea kettle into around 950 RWS musket caps for cheap. I have around 400 #11s still for my Hawken but I did buy a musket nipple just in case.

 

[Ugly Sauce]

Yup, I have about that many musket caps, found them in a rental house we were cleaning out. (hoarder house) So I run a musket cone on my TC Hawken, which with it's weird breech-plug design should benefit from it. Have enough CCI #11 Magnum caps to keep my Plains Pistol going for a while, as my revolvers do not like those at all. I have a musket cone for the Pistol, but the hammer does not hit it perfectly square, so until I do some El-Heato-Bendo on the hammer I'll stick with the rifle/pistol cap cone.

 

[JamesSh@@ter]

I do press them on with the hammer, which is scary to some, but I make sure the gun is pointed in a safe direction. (duh!) and I do it with the attitude that it WILL go off, not MIGHT go off. I have never had a cap go off.

That is a good idea! Thanks... I made a push stick with an angled head to get a good even push on the caps when I tried the CCI #10s. Better the bullet down the barrel then down the side forcing on caps! The homemade caps are a perfect fit, so no problem there.

 

[Ugly Sauce]

I think the greatest danger with using the hammer is the possibility of it slipping off the thumb when rotating the cylinder. I certainly don't recommend it for other people, or anyone else. But it does seat the caps a bit better than a push-stick.

 

[JamesSh@@ter]

I just ordered Rem #10 caps from Bass Pro Shops. A little spendy but surprised to see them!

 

[Lyle]

Bass Pro or Cabela’s, which ever is closest. No shipping charge when shipped to the store.

 

[Captain*kirk]

Bass Pro or Cabela’s, which ever is closest. No shipping charge when shipped to the store.

Yup. Just snagged me some

 

[LonesomePigeon]

Just an FYI, the CCI #10's are smaller than Remington #10's. They are not interchangeable.

 

[hawg]

I think the greatest danger with using the hammer is the possibility of it slipping off the thumb when rotating the cylinder. I certainly don't recommend it for other people, or anyone else. But it does seat the caps a bit better than a push-stick.

I kinda doubt it would fire from that position. I've tried to pop a cap by dropping the hammer from half cock and it didn't work. Don't take my word for it tho.

 

[Jackrabbit1957]

Would depend on stout the hammer spring is. Just a note, Uberti main springs lately have running around 3.5 to 4 pounds pull. Had a revolver in a while back that took 2 strikes to set off caps, replaced the spring and all is well, was on a new Dragoon. Pull weight was 3 pounds.

 

[gtrgy888]

I kinda doubt it would fire from that position. I've tried to pop a cap by dropping the hammer from half cock and it didn't work. Don't take my word for it tho.

My gun will absolutely detonate a seated cap falling from halfcock, so it varies by spring tension.

 

[red rick]

I just ordered some from basspro , but they have a jacked up price , $12.99 . I didn’t feel good about paying that price , it sounds like price gouging to me , like some other gun stores have done . They are also asking $19.99 for lead round balls , crazy . My LGS just down the road from them has them for $9.95 , same round balls and in stock .

 

[1KPerDay]

FYI Cabelas site also works (basspro and cabelas are now the same company) and they still had 1K #10s in stock as of this morning. I finally broke down and ordered mine. Not super happy about paying $.14/per cap but truthfully before they disappeared Cabelas was charging $7.99 or $8.99 for a tin of Remington #10s so it's only about a 50% increase in the time of extreme famine. So I guess that will likely be the going rate for these for a while until supply comes back. I wonder if these are a batch they had in a warehouse somewhere or if the new Remington ammo company is making them now. Honestly I hope the former. but I do hope they get up and running soon and don't change the size or formula under the new company, as these caps are the go-to for my Piettas.

Hopefully they'll show up and will actually be Remington #10s. Sad experience over the past 30 months has me pretty skeptical LOL. The store has had zero percussion caps of any size or brand for over 2 years whenever I checked. Scheel's had a batch of CCI #10s a while back and I got a few tins of those, but Cabela's has had nothing either on the shelf or behind the counter.

 

[chapo]

Agree above. Few weeks back, Bass Pro store at palm bay, FL had many #10 PCs.

 

[Blackpowderwarrior]

FYI Cabelas site also works (basspro and cabelas are now the same company) and they still had 1K #10s in stock as of this morning. I finally broke down and ordered mine. Not super happy about paying $.14/per cap but truthfully before they disappeared Cabelas was charging $7.99 or $8.99 for a tin of Remington #10s so it's only about a 50% increase in the time of extreme famine. So I guess that will likely be the going rate for these for a while until supply comes back. I wonder if these are a batch they had in a warehouse somewhere or if the new Remington ammo company is making them now. Honestly I hope the former. but I do hope they get up and running soon and don't change the size or formula under the new company, as these caps are the go-to for my Piettas.

Hopefully they'll show up and will actually be Remington #10s. Sad experience over the past 30 months has me pretty skeptical LOL. The store has had zero percussion caps of any size or brand for over 2 years whenever I checked. Scheel's had a batch of CCI #10s a while back and I got a few tins of those, but Cabela's has had nothing either on the shelf or behind the counter.

I ordered 1500 more before I made the thread about bass pro. They came and I shot around 50 of them. They seemed like the same formula they always have been. But I wouldnt doubt if those were caps that had been hoarded back during the pLandemic