How is your cap supply?

[stronics]

I can't find any caps localy are you able to find them? I wonder what is going on with the industry?
Thanks,
David

 

[kurts]

just bought 6000 from powder inc, rws $400 del.

 

[Sabotdart]

:hmm: went into town a few weeks ago to get some and all they had was musket caps. Ask the guy behind the counter if they were getting more in he said "they are on order". So I made the drive to town a few days ago and still nothing. Again was told "They are on order, do you need .22 rounds?" "No I need caps." :idunno:

 

[Idaho Ron]

I have plenty I think. I have a couple thousand #11 CCI mags. I am always on the look out though. If I saw some I would buy them. Ron

 

[mooman76]

They are in short supply like everything else in the industry right now. Hopefully getting better. I picked up a few hundred a month or so ago. They had more.

 

[Billnpatti]

Fortunately, I bought a couple thousand the last time I was at Friendship. That was about three years ago and at that time, the best price I could find was $45/thousand for CCI #11. I have not looked at any of the local stores but one of the guys that I shoot with told me that he was starting to see them appear on store shelves here in the Austin area. I was at Bass Pro in Tulsa a few days ago when we were visiting our daughter and her family and I did not see any on their shelves. Many different centerfire cartridges are starting to appear on the shelves but .22s are still not available. But the fact that we are starting to see at least a few things on the shelves that weren't there a short while ago is encouraging. I suspect that caps will start being seen in greater quantities before long.

 

[jamesthomas]

Don't have any, Flintlocks Forever!!! :grin:

 

[Bon Sauvage]

I buy mine locally and yesterday, for the first time that I can recall, I got the, "they're on order," treatment.

 

[Hawgeye]

I haven't found caps in any quantity with any regularity since December. As an aside, the last batch of CCI caps I got had a misfire rate something horrible. The bottom of the tins were covered with explosive wafers that had fallen out of the caps. :cursing:

 

[Poor Private]

Which type of caps you refering to? One for your head? Ones for muskets? or ones for pistols?
I have all the caps I need for my head. I have about 3k of pistol caps of various sizes- I can find them locally from 5.99 to 7.99 a hundred. Musket caps are a bit tuffer. I have about 3k of them also, but I can find them at Cabelas, local gun store and a few other various places 8.99 a hundred. I always buy them when I see them on sale or cheap. You can never have enough especiall when you can go thru a hundred or more at a civil war reenactment- 6-10 a year and thats about 600 to a thousand caps easy.

 

[mooman76]

You can never have enough especiall when you can go thru a hundred or more at a civil war reenactment- 6-10 a year and thats about 600 to a thousand caps easy.

I have never been to one but would like to some day. I had no idea they went through so many rounds for a reenactment. I think it's allot if I go out and shoot 50 or more just for paper punching.

 

[dledinger]

My supply is not good, but they're still available locally at abhorrent prices.

 

[Billnpatti]

Mercy! Mercy!! Mercy!! Those are horrible prices. The last time I saw rifle caps at the local Cabela's they were in blister packs of one can and they were priced at $5.95 for a can of 100. I thought that was a really bad price and passed them up. Back when I first started shooting muzzleloaders, I was paying fifty cents per can of 100 for CCI or Remington caps. But gas for my car was under 30 cents a gallon then. Ah, the times they are a-changin'.

 

[smo]

I have a few hundred left but I'm saving them just in case I run out of flint :rotf:

 

[Dave K]

Last time I bought caps, they were $21 a thousand for RWS at Friendship. Maybe 10yrs. ago? I would love to say I will live long enough to run out. It sure will be a long time though. Even now though, when I run across them at garage sales, I just have to buy them as those guys converting over to inlines, just want rid of them. Silly guys.

 

[George T.]

I have several hundred but the fact that there are none around us makes me nervous! Geo. T.

 

[gunner69skmc]

In February of last rear I was visiting the Walmart Sporting Goods Department. The deer season was over and all the muzzleloader stuff was on sale. I talked to the clerk and offered him $1.75 per 100 tin and I would buy all 18 tins he had. He He he accepted!

 

[Junior1942]

My local Wal-Mart, Jena Louisiana, has Winchester #11 Mag caps for $7.99 per 100.

 

[ohio ramrod]

The story I get is that the companies are so busy running 22 rimfire that they aren't making any caps. I found a local hardware store that had a lot on hand so I bought 1000. And called my nephew who stopped in and got 500. The clerk told him:" Funny we haven't sold any since deer season and you are the second person today who came in and bought a lot!" With tax they were $75.00 for a thousand. :hmm: :hmm:

 

[Dickydalton]

:idunno: I may have bought a few last year.......... :redface: