German caps?

[gkainz]

What can you tell me about these? Picked them up in a miscellaneous box of stuff from a garage sale.

 

[64Springer]

6mm is a big cap.

.236 inches.

Winged Musket?

 

[Acorn Mush]

Can you post a picture of the caps themselves? It would be interesting to see them.

I remember as an adolescent buying BB and CB caps in tins that looked very similar, but larger, to the one in your picture. They came 250 to a tin, I think. That was a LONG time ago, however.

 

[Powder Flask Collector]

It is rimfire ammunition for breech loading Flobert indoor shooting guns, which have been rather popular in Germany before the 1980s.
They had been free to purchase and own.


See also: An Official Journal Of The NRA | Flobert Rifles

 

[Dusty_Traveler]

That is parlor gun ammo. Now you need a parlor gun! Also, that ammo was
manufactured between 1949 and 1990.

 

[gkainz]

Thanks for the input! I got these a few years ago and put them on the shelf to research some day. I came across the photo on my phone and posted it up, without recalling what the content of the tin looked like. In response to the picture request, I found the tin again and opened it up to remember they're not typical caps (as pointed out by a few sharp individuals above). By the way, the price tag on the back side of the tin shows $1.29

Here they are, with a No. 11 along side for comparison.

Thanks!

 

[SDSmlf]

What can you tell me about these? Picked them up in a miscellaneous box of stuff from a garage sale.

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I’ve got a bunch of these in 6mm rimfire blanks somewhere. What do you want yo know?

 

[mhb]

These are German BB caps, and while nominally 6mm, I think you will find they work just fine in your .22RF arms.

PRD1 - mhb - MIke

 

[cal.43]

I’ve got a bunch of these in 6mm rimfire blanks somewhere. What do you want yo know?
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That´s ammunition for a 6mm blank gun

 

[DementedMindOfJac]

What can you tell me about these? Picked them up in a miscellaneous box of stuff from a garage sale.

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They used to be my go-to years back when I started muzzleloader shootin' in South Africa. Couldn't get anything US-made. In my experience Dynamit-Nobel products are very consistent. Last can of Dynamit caps I saw was in a plastic can, maybe 15 years back.
If them caps were stored right, I'd use 'em for money-shots.

 

[DementedMindOfJac]

They used to be my go-to years back when I started muzzleloader shootin' in South Africa. Couldn't get anything US-made. In my experience Dynamit-Nobel products are very consistent. Last can of Dynamit caps I saw was in a plastic can, maybe 15 years back.
If them caps were stored right, I'd use 'em for money-shots.

My bad. Shoulda read on, eh? Same outfit does make percussion caps, though.
Bad luck on them caps.

 

[Two Feathers]

Thanks for the input! I got these a few years ago and put them on the shelf to research some day. I came across the photo on my phone and posted it up, without recalling what the content of the tin looked like. In response to the picture request, I found the tin again and opened it up to remember they're not typical caps (as pointed out by a few sharp individuals above). By the way, the price tag on the back side of the tin shows $1.29

Here they are, with a No. 11 along side for comparison.

Thanks!

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gkainz:
The pointy ones we used to call CB caps. We used them for squirrels in a .22 rifle. I think shooting gallery owners used them in carnival gallery guns?
Just what I know.
God bless:
Two Feathers

 

[springfield art]

What can you tell me about these? Picked them up in a miscellaneous box of stuff from a garage sale.

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Nice find! Very old, I'd guess, before unification of Germany as marked Western Germany. Rundkugel sounds like a German pastry or cake!

 

[gkainz]

Nice find! Very old, I'd guess, before unification of Germany as marked Western Germany. Rundkugel sounds like a German pastry or cake!

Ha! Google translate says Rundkugel is Round Ball. I like your pastry idea better!

 

[Jaeger]

That´s ammunition for a 6mm blank gun

No...."Rundkugel" means round ball, so they should not be fired in a blank gun! Like someone said.....BB caps.

 

[cal.43]

No...."Rundkugel" means round ball, so they should not be fired in a blank gun! Like someone said.....BB caps.

on that package on that picture is writen
Flobert Blanks 6mm folded
belive me I´m German.

 

[mhb]

on that package on that picture is writen
Flobert Blanks 6mm folded
belive me I´m German.

The original post, by gkainz, shows a can of Dynamit Nobel BB caps, and is correctly labeled for such. A later post, by SDSmlf, shows a similar can of blanks, also properly labeled. But the original question was about the identification of the BB caps (Rundkugel) - which are also identified on the label in English as 'Bull. Breech Caps'. And 'Rundkugel', as Jaeger says, does mean 'roundball', which is correct for the BB cap load.

mhb - MIke

 

[DementedMindOfJac]

Found this on a image search. This is pretty much what the cans looked like, but they were a metal tin when I was comin' up, I'd almost swear that the labels were red and all in German but it's been a long while since'd I last seen one in the wild.

 

[gkainz]

Yep, I also have one of those plastic cans that looks the same as above, except mine says Troisdorf instead of Furth, Germany.
I assume it's fairly new, as the plastic bottom is marked with the recycle symbol. I don't recall where I got it.
Greg

 

[cal.43]

The original post, by gkainz, shows a can of Dynamit Nobel BB caps, and is correctly labeled for such. A later post, by SDSmlf, shows a similar can of blanks, also properly labeled. But the original question was about the identification of the BB caps (Rundkugel) - which are also identified on the label in English as 'Bull. Breech Caps'. And 'Rundkugel', as Jaeger says, does mean 'roundball', which is correct for the BB cap load.

mhb - MIke

My answer was for the quotet picture,

an Flobert is

a Zimmerstutzen is

both are no muzzleloader and the Zimmerstutzen is still popular in some areas of Germany.

the 6mm Flobert Blanks are for
Blank guns like