Would there be any chance of glueing the individual propellants back in or is it all too loose to mess with?
Bad CCI caps
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Could always save the empty ones and buy a cap making thing.
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Be cautious about the heritage of the modern caps , and rifle primers , you buy these days , even in small sporting goods stores. When primers and caps got scarce six months or more ago , guys were going to home auction sales , and flea mkts. , and buying aged ammo , caps , primers , etc. selling the stuff to small sport shops , and they selling to desperate consumers. I know a guy that dumped all his old primers , and caps from the early 1970's at a sport shop to be sold . Buyer beware.
North fork. the rep that I talked to did not mention anything about not making caps. He only said that they could not ship to individuals and that they ship only to large wholesalers who then ship to retail stores.
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I had some Remington caps that dropped out the primer disc years ago. I just put the plug back in the cap and fired them when plinking. Most went bang.
ATK/Vista Outdoors (who owns CCI) is concentrating on the common modern cartridges right now. They (ATK) are not even making common but older cartridges like 30-30Win, 45-70, 35 Whelen, etc. If you have a 22LR, 9mm, 308Win, 223/5.56, 243Win, etc you can find ammo. Scarce and expensive but it is on the shelves. By the way, this is the same group owns Remington Ammunition now after the Remington bankruptcy. Don't expect Rem #10 caps anytime soon either. And Winchester #11's are made by.........guess who.........CCI. So in a nutshell, American perc. cap production has halted for now.
CCI has always been a crap shoot
the primer often falls out
I keep RWS and Remington caps in my box. The old CCI caps are only retained for the day I run out of good caps.
When you have no other option, make sure every cap you use has priming compound in it and the cap is well seated to the nipple. Poor cap fit combined with substandard made caps...not going to bang when needed.
the primer often falls out
I keep RWS and Remington caps in my box. The old CCI caps are only retained for the day I run out of good caps.
When you have no other option, make sure every cap you use has priming compound in it and the cap is well seated to the nipple. Poor cap fit combined with substandard made caps...not going to bang when needed.
Decided to email CCI to ask about production, reply should be interesting, if they reply.
64Springer
75 Cal.
If you're going to ask a question, ask them why 2 out of 5 caps fail to go bang.
What good is production if they keep making Crappy Caps Indefinitely.
Makes sense. Maybe even go through the tins and glue the primer discs back in with a dab of duco cement which should also waterproof them. I've had tins where one or two primers got loose but never bothered with them. Next time I try to get them to work.
My goodness. If some of you want to complain about modern products, you sure in heck wouldn't have made it back in the day!
Especially those of you whining about cap primer falling out of a few
Especially those of you whining about cap primer falling out of a few
64Springer
75 Cal.
How about this. Do not buy another tin of CCI primers until they get their sh it together.
Primers went from .03 a piece to .15 a piece and we're sitting here talking about gluing their crappy, falling apart, product back together.
Everyone sitting on their wallets is a way to punish a company that cares not one wit about their customers. And, yes, they've heard about their #11s being unreliable junk.
Send them a message and stop rewarding them for stealing our money and providing nothing in return.
Right, but at this time, where is the competition? We'll have to make our own or quit shooting. It's like "We will over charge you for crap and you'll be glad to get it" Edit....Forum keeps changing my choice of using the word crap with manure. Did it again. Is the word C...R...A....P forbidden? Grrrr! Don't like being censored!
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Only because most of our shooting is at paper or steel. Back in the day a faulty cap could mean not eating, or getting eaten, or other unpleasant things. I think back then they would have been even more upset over bad caps than we are today.My goodness. If some of you want to complain about modern products, you sure in heck wouldn't have made it back in the day!
Especially those of you whining about cap primer falling out of a few
gunnyr
40 Cal
Sounds like to me you can reuse the empty caps by getting some roll caps and experiment with them.
Who knows you might buy the cap maker from 22 reloader. You have nothing to loose but the price
of the roll caps at this point in time.
Gunnyr
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