Make your own #11 percussion caps ?

[brudford]

With the high cost of #11 percussion caps I came across
a tool in the MidSouth catalog to make #11 caps using
aluminum pop or beer cans then using caps used in childrens
cap guns,tool sells for about 18.00 $ ???

 

[thomas]

I tryed that myself many years ago & didn't have very good luck with it. Could have just been the way I was doing it tho' & may work fine for you. Tap-a-cap I think was what I had.

Thomas

 

[Runner]

They work, but.......

Childrens roll caps, if you can still find them, are no where near as hot as a normal number 11 cap. They produce lots of paper debris that clogs up nipples making using a pick on every shot a need. If you hunt around you can find plastic caps made for toy guns that will fit a number 11 nipple already that are basically the same thing you will be making. They used to come 144 on a card for about 79 cents. We used to use them for target use with the nipples bored out a little. The one real cure for the price of caps is a flintlock, and even flints are not cheap!

 

[gordy]

The $18.00 price is good compared to $30.00 from Dixie and some other sources.I was always going to give them a try,but never felt I could afford the outlay if it didn't work.Someone said they were useing two caps to increase the fire.I havn't heard anyone here doing a lot of bragging about how "well" Tap-O-Cap worked for them.I'm into flinters now so won't bother getting one.I did gather up 8 or 10 boxes of caps.Guess I'll give them to the grandkids.

 

[Runner]

If yuou use a nipple with the hole drilled out a little, they do ok in perfect conditions. They are not what you would want out in the woods when it counts.

 

[Ivery Keys]

Plus those toy caps seem more corrosive than even the old CVA type caps used to be. I have one and as stated above I used two caps per cap (so to speak) and always had trouble with the paper. If I shot one evening and did not clean till next morning the nipple would already be coated in rust. I do not recommend these, not counting the time you invest...