High Cost of Caps and Powder-Gets Crazier

[Eric Krewson]

Sometimes you have to be creative on shipping; I sold a rattle snake backed osage bow to a guy in Italy for $400, the import duty on a new bow was $600. He said to mark the shipping paperwork as "used sporting goods, archery" which made the import duty $30. I shipped the bow off marked as requested, it took 6 weeks to get to him. I was getting nervous about the possibility of the bow being confiscated because of the snakes skins which were banned by the import laws but eventually the package arrived to the buyer unopened, it had never had the contents inspected.

 

[Snake Pleskin]

I have done the same thing. I shipped several items to Germany for reenactors of Revolutionary, French & Indian time frame. Go figure. The gent told me it was very hard to find items over there! I called them antiques and parts. Worked fine

 

[jack]

#11 Caps on calguns for 80 per thousand in socal

 

[CyrusP]

Graf and sons Schuetzen Musket caps arrived today at my home. 1000 Caps for $117.27 total. Ordered 5-6 days ago. I could have done 5000 and saved more money but need to practice fiscal restraint once in a while.