Basspro not stocking caps

[Rifleman1776]

I live in Arizona and the closest thing we have to flint is Apache tears or obsidian.

The Indians used it to make arrowheads but being a volcanic black glass it can't take the bashing a flint gets.

That leaves me with several other rocks that are almost impossible to knap into a good flint shape.

If you come to Arizona, you better bring your real flints with you.
The other option is to buy yourself a good percussion rifle and stop by a gun store to pick up some extra percussion caps. :rotf:

An expert in arrowhead collecting once told me the best arrow heads were found in parts of the country that had either no flint or very poor quality. Other indians traveled and brought flint chunks to trade for whatever the 'no flint' tribes might have of value. Commerce thrived across the continent long before white man arrived.

 

[coloradoclyde]

If you come to Arizona, you better bring your real flints with you.
The other option is to buy yourself a good percussion rifle and stop by a gun store to pick up some extra percussion caps.

Umm!
What about the gun that Marcos de Niza would have used ? no flint or caps required .... :wink:

 

[Treestalker]

Went by the Wally World yesterday and saw a man in the sporting section handling a steel and plastic object. I asked the boy behind the counter if they had any percussion caps; he looked at me like I had two heads and said the ML stuff is down there on the left. Upon inspection the area designated had only equipment for metal and plastic objects: No caps, flints nipple wrenches, horns, black powder, nothing traditional at all. I guess the Wally computer and it's subjects have given up completely on traditional black powder shooters. As I watched, the man holding the metal and plastic object actually bought it, thus insuring only those despicable things will be available in the future (a Sale!) and insuring I have another traditionally compromised individual to watch out for in the woods this season. Treestalker.