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Any body Remember These?
- Thread starter Twosteels
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(Hearing the song "Memories" in my head.) Oh yeah, I went through my share back in ancient times. Got a couple of tins at a swap meet a few years ago. They all worked fine. Wonder if I still have the empty tins.
Jeff
Jeff
I have a can around somewhere. They go poof more than they go pop but they've been around for over 50 years in all kinds of changing climates.
Twosteels
32 Cal
I tried one yesterday, bang is alright, but here in Arizona when babies cry, we have to add the tears.
Cruzatte
50 Cal.
Oh yeah, I remember those. Used up a lot of 'em on my old navy revolvers back in the day.
longcruise
70 Cal.
Those were good ones. I think they might have been Italian. ????
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Still have three tins - seem to work.
Twosteels
32 Cal
Yup they were made in Italy. and they was pretty dam hot.
Used to buy these from Dixie when I was running my business; they sold like the proverbial hot cakes at NZ$18.00 per 1000!!
Although they were corrosive a lot of guys loved them.
Although they were corrosive a lot of guys loved them.
Wow, $18 per 1,000......I missed out on those days
$18 per 1000!!! Back in early 1972 when I got into the percussion shooting I was paying .89 to .99 per hundred, that results in approx $9-10 per 1000. They weren't Dixie, but came in a red plastic container like the metal tins and were manufactured in Italy. My first capper arm was a Euroarms '51 Colt Navy in 44 caliber. Caps didn't fit worth a hoot, go to shoot a full cylinder full, several would tend to fall off, that 51 Navy sucked caps into the guts like flies to sugar. Had to pinch the caps most of the time, helped some, but that was back in the day when we didn't know about other caps and there was little after market nipples available if any to custom fit caps. There wasn't all of the written material available then on how to do this and that with percussion revolvers nor any online information (computers weren't even thought of then, much less websites). Those were the days of doing by trial and error and dealing with what ya had. Still have one of those empty red plastic 'tins' buried somewhere, always on the lookout for it. Back before all of the craziness, price increases, and scarcity started I felt a hunch and stocked up on a quantity Rem 10's along with a few bricks of CCI 11's and paid $30-32 a brick (1000), that was a major increase in the $20-25 I had been paying before that. Glad I did made the investment.
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I got ripped off! I had to pay $19.50 for 1000 the last time I bought caps! You guys who paid $18.00 got a deal!
It was over 35 years ago and I had to pay the freight to New Zealand and they came Air Freight - can't imagine that today!!
Saw some at a local gun shop last week. $12.50 per 100.....
Don
Don
Current pricing here is running NZ$39.99 per 100 for No.11's and Rifle Primers - Ouch!!
Twosteels
32 Cal
Ohhh, Ouch!
Yup I bought a bunch as a kid, they were the worse caps I ever used and the metal was super thick and sometimes the top would balloon out and the bottom would simultaneously shrink and get super stuck on the nipple lol. They were also very corrosive and the explosive would sometimes fall out of the cup but man were they cheap!
ckwilli
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These came from my granddad who died in 1985. I tried to remove the tag he put on it but the paper started to tear.
