If Walmart sells them that low a price then the other stores selling the same thing for 2-3 times more sure sounds like greed. There’s a shop I know of that was selling the tins at $28 each as of a few months back, almost 5 times more than Walmart.
Even more frustrating when you ask the young kid stocking the shelves if they carry CCI caps and he asks what color and size!
Yep. I agree. After I learn how to make the caps the next step is making my own powder. Once I've figured that out I'll try to learn how to Knap my own flints. Never even attempted that before so it is the most dreaded of the three projects. But if another man can do it I can too...
22 years, since your gonna pop a cap to clear your nipple/drum and powder chamber. Unless you fumble and drop a few like me. I’m thinking of getting a piece of carpet to stand on when I shoot, so if I drop one these 20–30 cent caps, it won’t bounce away or settle in the gravel.If you go out with your percussion rifle and shoot at a target nine times, five times a year, how many years would it take to run out of caps by purchasing 11 tins of 100?
That's good thinking. I'm a notorious cap popper after cleaning and getting ready to reload. I'll spend more caps getting ready to hit the deer woods than I do actually being on the hunt. And drops are common too. Last week I was in my shop and notice a cap laying in the floor. You'd think it was a silver dollar the way I went after it. And I probably don't have 22 years left anyway.
I think this shortage problem and the price gouging everywhere except Walmart are going to drive many of us to just start making our own. That's my plan. There is a new guy on the forum that is fixing to start selling cap makers he machines himself. They're gonna be a bit higher priced then the ones currently available but, according to his pictures, his turns out a better product. I'm gonna go ahead in the next couple weeks and order one of the ones available now and, when that guy is up and running, hopefully grab one of his. Backups for backups, you know ..
It would be a little over a month? LOL!If you go out with your percussion rifle and shoot at a target nine times, five times a year, how many years would it take to run out of caps by purchasing 11 tins of 100?
