Which are best. Sheutzen or RWS musket caps for my Optima inline (Idaho)
Musket caps
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rafterob
62 Cal.
Although we don't talk about inlines on this forum, I thought they used 209 primers?
They perform equally but .... the metal in the RWS is a bit softer than Schuetzen. What this means is if the nipple on your gun has a slightly different geometry from the Schuetzen cap, it may not go off from the first hammer strike and that's completely due to the cap not being fully seated on the nipple. It's an easy fix, and this even helps with RWS. Chuck the nipple in a drill and lightly polish the nipple with some 400g sandpaper. No worries from that point on. All my competition guns have this done and zero misfires
In Idaho you can not use 209s
The best are what you can get.
TScottW99
40 Cal
Knight, the first modern unmentionable, used #11 percussion
He's probably got the northwest edition. Uses musket caps.
Shooter1
40 Cal
This post just reminded me of something.... I am getting low on #10 &11 caps, but some where out in my gun room I have 3000 musket caps I picked up 5 yrs ago when things were tight...also musket nipples for my caplock rifles... of course that is not a problem with my rock locks...
I'm gonna do this today. I have a lot of musket caps and have been having a few failure to fires in my Hawken and Renegade. I try and remember to push the cap on real tight with the hammer but it still doesn't always work. I am using ampco nipples.
I just received my delivery of Schutzen musket caps. I didn’t know they were made in Spain by Reo, but I could not wait and went out into the garage to snap a few. From my simple testing, I would say they are much more powerful than the CCI multi purpose caps I was able to buy locally.
Maybe with real black it may not make a difference , but with Pyrodex RS,(I am saving my real black for my flintlock), I had a few CCI’s that failed to ignite the charge in my T/C Hawken. I still have a supply of #10 and #11 percussion caps, but these musket caps are sooo much easier to install, especially in the cold weather.
Maybe with real black it may not make a difference , but with Pyrodex RS,(I am saving my real black for my flintlock), I had a few CCI’s that failed to ignite the charge in my T/C Hawken. I still have a supply of #10 and #11 percussion caps, but these musket caps are sooo much easier to install, especially in the cold weather.
I'm also in Idaho and all I can find are RWS 1081. They work great in my sidelock and unmentionable.
The CCI Musket Caps are 100% so far on my Musket nipple equipped .54 Renegade lighting off Pyrodex RS. I just put Musket nipples on my old CVA 12 Bore SXS so will soon find out (maybe this weekend) if the CCIs will reliably light RS in it. And yes my old stiff, fumble fingers like the larger Musket caps.
