disgusted with this country! I have called all over the country this afternoon trying to order musket caps and a couple nipples to fit a 1/4x28 thread and noone has squat! I’m gonna put the Hawkens up .
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Don't give up!
FYI, Grafs & Sons has musket caps in-stock if you are willing to buy 1,000:
https://www.grafs.com/retail/catalog/category/categoryId/3511
FYI, Grafs & Sons has musket caps in-stock if you are willing to buy 1,000:
https://www.grafs.com/retail/catalog/category/categoryId/3511
Ebay has those nipples. $10.47 shipped.
Back Creek has Schuetzen caps in stock right now. When, if ever, they get RWS again they will be over $100/thousand.
http://blackpowderva.com/
http://blackpowderva.com/
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Yep, we are well into the second great muzzleloader supplies buying panic. Many, if not most, muzzleloader shooters learned nothing from the first panic; they failed to stock up.
i've been helping local hunters and shooters mostly with stuff i will never use. Yesterday i gave away two CVA musket cap nipples and the last of the musket caps. Tomorrow a hunter is coming for a pound of Scheutzen for his flintlock.
i've been helping local hunters and shooters mostly with stuff i will never use. Yesterday i gave away two CVA musket cap nipples and the last of the musket caps. Tomorrow a hunter is coming for a pound of Scheutzen for his flintlock.
You roll belly-up a might too easily.
https://muzzle-loaders.com/collections/all/products/schuetzen-musket-caps
https://www.trackofthewolf.com/List/Item.aspx/64/3
https://muzzle-loaders.com/collections/all/products/schuetzen-musket-caps
https://www.trackofthewolf.com/List/Item.aspx/64/3
While I may disagree with @Sun City on who to blame for the cap shortage, I am in full agreement with him in that if one only needs 100 caps for one or two years' worth of shooting, he should not have to buy 1000 caps and paying the shipping and haz mat charges to get 10 times the number of caps he needs. I would gladly make caps available from my stock if we lived close enough to make the exchange. Surely there are members of the forum that could reach out to Sun City.
Don't sweat it! I'll make do! I've got three FL rifles! I'm just wanting to get this GRRW rifle going! I guess the CCI I have have gotten moisture in them even through they've been inside my office desk!
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Just do a search for
"Thompson Center Musket Cap Nipple 1/4 x 28 Thread Stainless Steel"
several sites have them
"Thompson Center Musket Cap Nipple 1/4 x 28 Thread Stainless Steel"
several sites have them
Call and ask! They're OUT OF STOCK!!
The Ebay guy with the Treso nipples says he has more than 10. He is one of those ebay store people so he is running a business. I bought one from him a while back.
Thank you!
Stocked up years ago on 1/4-28 and metic musket nipples and musket caps ‘just in case’. Some may think it’s selfish or hoarding. I just think it’s being prepared. Will likely buy more when availability is up and price is down. My buddies tell me there will be one hell of an estate sale some day. Not so sure. Looks like many items are doing better than the stock market, at least today. There is a list and item or asset number tags for the bride if it comes to that. Otherwise, plan is to shoot the stuff up. Ideally, everything will end with the last cap/flint, ball and powder just having been shot. We can dream, can’t we?
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I bought 1000 CCI per caps in 2018 but I guess being inside my computer desk they became moisture ridden and are total manure for usage!
A bit off topic, but, I wonder what will happen if things in general become hard to get. Like clothes and food.
Right now with caps difficult to find, it's a good argument for a flintlock. Although flints have been in short supply a few times too. It'll just take some enterprising Arkansawyer a little time figure out the extra money he can make with all that useless rock laying in the streambeds.
Right now with caps difficult to find, it's a good argument for a flintlock. Although flints have been in short supply a few times too. It'll just take some enterprising Arkansawyer a little time figure out the extra money he can make with all that useless rock laying in the streambeds.
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Powder Inc. has #11 caps, & musket caps check them out.
Myself and others here have gotten good old #11s at this place, one of the best I've seen for shipping to your door. Not too extortionate a cost on the caps or shipping costs:
KYGUNCO
I ordered late Friday night and still had them by the following Wednesday. Think the shipping was $12.95 so some of the cost may be baked into the cap price itself.
KYGUNCO
I ordered late Friday night and still had them by the following Wednesday. Think the shipping was $12.95 so some of the cost may be baked into the cap price itself.
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I just sent a nasty gram to Caellas. $14 a 100 per caps. Up the road another 30 miles Bass Pros had them for $7, and it all the same company. Cabellas is now the whipping boy.
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I gave a friend a pack of Caps yesterday because he was not able to fine any . I told this same guy a few months ago to check his local Walmart because they were showing them in-stock. He waited until this week to look for some with hunting season starting. After I gave them to him he then asked if I would sell him some BP at cost.... I offered him some Pyro that I had for just in case. He bought it from me at my cost . Then he asked if I would cast him some balls if he got me the lead...
I had to explain to him that I was not a store and was helping him out by giving him a pack of caps and sell him some Pyro at 3 year ago prices. I told him he would have to help himself out a little by not waiting until hunting season to get supplies.
But like most people in the BP community would do, I told him I would pour him 100 balls.
After our little conversation, he did remind me that I was the reason why he was planning to hunt with traditional equipment in the first place..
SO I was glad to help..
Great to see others on here willing to help brothers in need!
I had to explain to him that I was not a store and was helping him out by giving him a pack of caps and sell him some Pyro at 3 year ago prices. I told him he would have to help himself out a little by not waiting until hunting season to get supplies.
But like most people in the BP community would do, I told him I would pour him 100 balls.
After our little conversation, he did remind me that I was the reason why he was planning to hunt with traditional equipment in the first place..
SO I was glad to help..
Great to see others on here willing to help brothers in need!
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