Sorry my friend....I wasn't paying that close of attention until I reread the original post.
I agree...both scenarios are completely different.
Have a blessed day....keep on burning that powder my friend.....
CCI # 11 Percussion Caps
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I agree...both scenarios are completely different.
Have a blessed day....keep on burning that powder my friend.....
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Contrary to rumors on gun boards CCI never stopped making #11 caps. Local stores routinely receive #11 caps. The hoarders and scalpers get them.
We went through this same obscene dance when the scalpers, ammo sellers, and others who stood to make a killing claimed Obama would outlaw muzzleloaders. Now we are in round two: People on muzzleloader boards panic and pay twice the price of a round of .22 ammunition for one #11 cap.
During the last panic i found a source of hundreds of thousands of CCI and Remington #10 and #11 caps for $2.99/100. Bought two .50 caliber ammo cans of the things.
During this panic i've given away a few thousand #11 caps.
We went through this same obscene dance when the scalpers, ammo sellers, and others who stood to make a killing claimed Obama would outlaw muzzleloaders. Now we are in round two: People on muzzleloader boards panic and pay twice the price of a round of .22 ammunition for one #11 cap.
During the last panic i found a source of hundreds of thousands of CCI and Remington #10 and #11 caps for $2.99/100. Bought two .50 caliber ammo cans of the things.
During this panic i've given away a few thousand #11 caps.
michacooks
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I'm not going to get in the same rut I'm in now with loading centerfire, not going to buy from scalpers, gunbroker sites are selling for 149.00 for 300 cans plus shipping, midway had them for about $165.00 with shipping for 1000. I used to buy centerfire primers by the case (5000) wish I had bought more of them.
Doesnt make sense to me that Walmart can get them and sell them for the 5.42 a tin and Midway is charging 119.00 a 1000 for them. Seems to me that Midway is participating in the lets screw over the muzzleloader shooters like the scalpers who sell them on gunbroker.
Rock Home Isle
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…and we can’t get any caps at a WalMart in Colorado…
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I laugh every time I see one of these responses about "Hoarding", like you or someone a 1,000 miles away are going to be effected by someone buying a thousand caps or 10 lbs of powder. Tell me how someone in Mississippi or Alabama buying every cap in stock at their local Walmart is going to affect somebody in Podunk, Iowa? If you want to complain about hoarding, go talk to a Mormon.
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Every Walmart I have been in the past week has had caps. I’ve been to 3 different ones. They always have Pyrodex Realy Sucks, just never Pyrodex Poop.
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Yep, Midway is playing big time scalper and people on muzzleloader boards are playing right into their hands.
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I doubt if any of the Western Slope Walmarts will ever again carry percussion caps. I believe Montrose was the last one. I wonder if an of the stores on the other side of the divide would carry them? Sadly, Californians and East Coasters have overrun what was once a sporting paradise. No more. Our position has been overrun.
Spot on Gunny! I live in a pretty remote area. I also shoot nearly every day. Sometimes only a couple cylinders or sometimes rifles for an hour or so. Either way I have no choice locally for resupply. So when someone busts my chops for ordering more than I can shoot in 6 months they can pound sand for all I care. I pay the hazmat so I’m buying a bunch. I’m also not interested in running short on diesel fuel or gasoline so I have a couple 300 gallon tanks. Hoarder, right?
Spot on Gunny! I live in a pretty remote area. I also shoot nearly every day. Sometimes only a couple cylinders or sometimes rifles for an hour or so. Either way I have no choice locally for resupply. So when someone busts my chops for ordering more than I can shoot in 6 months they can pound sand for all I care. I pay the hazmat so I’m buying a bunch. I’m also not interested in running short on diesel fuel or gasoline so I have a couple 300 gallon tanks. Hoarder, right?
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How do you figure? Midway is right in line with CCI's suggested current retail price. Maybe Midway tacked on an extra dollar to guard against hoarders
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I spoke with the local Walmart. They don't have any caps and they will not order "reloading supplies". The last CCI #11s I bought were 1/21/21 and were in the $6-7 range; I bought 2 #11 and 2 #11M on 2 trips to that gun shop. I've only seen caps once since then, Remington at $12.99? per 100. I passed on those. I live at the end of the supply chain and it's almost impossible to "mail order" ammo, primers (caps), powder. I don't go to town any more than I have to, so things may come and go without me knowing they were ever there.
I try to shoot BP 2X a month and pop 10 caps per visit (1 cap on empty, 3 standing, 3 sitting or Kneeling, and 3 prone or bench). The range I belong to has a 6 month season. A quick check of the math and I'm not a high volume BP shooter. I think it's pretty funny to be accused of being the reason people can't find caps.
If I find some caps and the store limit is 3, that's what I'll buy. If there is no limit, I will up that to 5.
I try to shoot BP 2X a month and pop 10 caps per visit (1 cap on empty, 3 standing, 3 sitting or Kneeling, and 3 prone or bench). The range I belong to has a 6 month season. A quick check of the math and I'm not a high volume BP shooter. I think it's pretty funny to be accused of being the reason people can't find caps.
If I find some caps and the store limit is 3, that's what I'll buy. If there is no limit, I will up that to 5.
I agree.
Regarding hoarding of powder & caps....I picked up 16 tins of caps recently at 2 different Walmarts. I already gave away 2 of those tins I picked up last weekend. Also...shooting 3-4 days a week & allowing my friends and lots of new shooters the opportunity to shoot them too, the 1600 caps I bought will all be gone by Christmas 2022.
I don't see that as hoarding.
Ninering62
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PPL's inability to see most things from more than one perspective is a big problem regarding this " Hoarding " subject IMHO.
I use to shoot just between trap/skeet/sporting clays, around 8k 12ga rounds a yr. Thats not including all the hunting of multiple species that I regularly did.
Sooooo, is buying my shells 400-500 at a time " hoarding "? NO! Its NOT!
When I had a bunch of semi auto CF's with extended mags, it was pointless to break any of them out without less than 500-600 rounds to burn. Sooooo, is buying my ammo 1000 rounds at a time " Hoarding "? Absolutely NOT!
Before my health & finances started seriously hindering my life, & the amount I shoot my muzzleloaders, from my ROA pistol to my sidelocks or my BP shotgun, BH 209 inlines & smokeless customs, I have a range in the back yard & shooting 6-8lbs of powder or more in a yr was " normal " along with hundreds & hundreds of primers, caps, wads, bullets, sabots etc.
Soooo, is buying a cpl hundred bullets & a brick of primers & 5-10lbs of numerous types of powders, is that " Hoarding "? Heck NO!
Now all the guys that hunt 4-5 times a yr., hit a range or the farm to target shoot once or twice a yr or every few months shoot a few rounds......... those guys buyin bricks of primers, 10lbs of powder, 1000 bullets, 5000 wads & sabots, is that " Hoarding "? Ya DANG RIGHT IT IS!!! Guys buyin up everything they can get their greedy little paws on to only auction them off on places like Gun Broker ARE part of this big problem & I'm not gonna get started on how the corporate world is bendin us all over the ole moss covered log.
Theres more ways to see things than ONE.
Ding Ding Ding.......Score. So today I had to do some shopping at some stores. One of them was my local Greeley Walmart Im not a regular at Walmart because I hate the place. So I decide to hit the one on the north side of Greeley. They had zip nada caps. They dont even get any. I had checked Brick seek as I posted earlier in this thread. None in the area according to that. I asked the guy at Walmart about ordering some. Assist store manager said nope we dont carry those or any other reloading stuff. But he said Timanth store has 9 in stock. Hmmm Brick seek says none. So I decided to take a ride. I had my doubts but I was surprised to see the box under lock and key at the Timnath store. He says how many you want I said how many can I have he says 3 is the limit. So I hoarded 3 and left. Its a ways to drive for 3 so I hoarded 15 gallons of gas stopped at the micro brewery in Windsor and hoarded 2 4 packs of some beer they brewed up for the local bike trail and came home. Ill be happy in a short while havin a cold one.
Rock Home Isle
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Love you man…headed out now.
have none here in ashland ,va walmart
Lucky score for me today. The Walmart near me had CCI caps back in stock for $6 a tin, so a few fell into my cart.
Amen brother!
I couldn't agree more.
