Old and New Percussion Cap Tins

[Billy Boy]

I keep all my cap tins and use them for lubed patches, mink oil lube and more. I still have several Navy Arms undamaged tins and a few German (I guess) cap tins. About half of mine either have the label off or a blank sticker over it. Interesting that they may become collectable.

The older (smaller) CCI cap tins are useful for me for carrying pills.

 

[Eutycus]

So far we have cleaning patches, char cloth, flints, nipples, lube,lubed patches, lube grease, pepper, tinder, mink oil, candles, pills and caps themselves. Along with "other things". Anyone got anything else?

 

[chuck-ia]

You know that "candle" thing is a good idea. Do you make them from beeswax or paraffin? That would also be a good way to have a handy supply of wax on you, which cant hurt.

beeswax

 

[Eterry]

Cleaning up my garage i found several old Remington percussion (Not Center Fire) cap tins. Inside one were extra nipples , another patches, and i couldn't get the lid off the third... so i doubt it had grease in it...

BTW, in Texas, the Penal Code 46.01 (3A, 3B) states a firearm doesn't include a weapon made or a replica of a weapon made before 1899, unless it uses rim fire or center fire ammunition.

Issuing a citation is NOT a statement of violating the law, (the back of most citations say so). It is used when Probable Cause is found that one MAY HAVE committed a violation. Only the judge,magistrate or jury can determine if you violated an ordinance, law or code.

I would've written the ticket and let the judge decide. That's their job, not mine.

 

[Eutycus]

Cleaning up my garage i found several old Remington percussion (Not Center Fire) cap tins. Inside one were extra nipples , another patches, and i couldn't get the lid off the third... so i doubt it had grease in it...

BTW, in Texas, the Penal Code 46.01 (3A, 3B) states a firearm doesn't include a weapon made or a replica of a weapon made before 1899, unless it uses rim fire or center fire ammunition.

Issuing a citation is NOT a statement of violating the law, (the back of most citations say so). It is used when Probable Cause is found that one MAY HAVE committed a violation. Only the judge,magistrate or jury can determine if you violated an ordinance, law or code.

I would've written the ticket and let the judge decide. That's their job, not mine.

Did you ever get the lid off? Or just toss it. My luck and a $20.00 bill would have been in it.

 

[Eterry]

Eutycus...it looks frozen in place. I thought about applying some heat... but my luck it'd be full of ffffg.
It's still sitting on my lathe bench...

 

[hanshi]

Caps do seem to last and last. I still have some excellent musket caps that are at least 50 years old. I bought them from Navy Arms and use them on occasion and they always work.

 

[Eterry]

I just emptied a goex powder can dated 1989... no issues at all.
I've shot 45 ammo made during ww2, it went bang as expected. I think the old saw... Keep your powder dry... applies to caps as well.

 

[William Sublette]

Unopened cap tins in my possession. Dated 1878 Staynless Centerfire Wnchester. I have another tin that was opened, I use those caps.
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I found this thread, trying to Google when these caps were made.

Old threads are good, and rich with info.

 

[Wounded Fox]

I got in a verbal discussion with a Game Warden here about whether my cap and ball revolver was "centerfire" PA law limits firearms for deer to centerfire or muzzle loader. I pulled out the 1970's era Remington cap tin, in which I keep the grease to smear over the chambers in the field. There, clear enough The Remington label said 100 percussion caps "Center Fire" Told him I had some Winchester, Eley and UMC cap tins around that said the same. I figured the Remington and Winchester companies who manufactured ammo and guns and designed firearms for over a century each wouldn't label percussion caps as centerfire unless the guns using them were centerfire. You should have seen his face.

Sorry to resurrect a very old thread, but your revolver may actually have been a legal muzzleloader per state code. I don't know what state you were in, but here is section "4VAC15-50-71. Muzzleloading gun hunting" of Virginia code (https://law.lis.virginia.gov/adminc...in immediate possession any,19, Issue 19, eff.):

C. Muzzleloading guns, for the purpose of this section, include:

1. Single shot muzzleloading rifles.40 caliber or larger, firing a single projectile or sabot (with a.35 caliber or larger projectile) where the projectile is loaded from the muzzle;

2. Muzzleloading shotguns (one or more barrels) not larger than 10 gauge where the projectiles are loaded from the muzzle;

3. Muzzleloading pistols (one or more barrels).45 caliber or larger, firing a single projectile or sabot (with a.35 caliber or larger projectile) per barrel where the propellant and projectile are loaded from the muzzle; and

4. Muzzleloading revolvers .45 caliber or larger, firing a single projectile or sabot (with a .35 caliber or larger projectile) per cylinder where the propellant and projectile are loaded from the forward end of the cylinder.

I guess the key here is know the relevant code from the state you are hunting in, and if you are doing anything unusual print the code out and take it with you.

 

[Tumbledown]

I found this thread, trying to Google when these caps were made.

Old threads are good, and rich with info.


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No older than the 1920s, when Olin bought Winchester.

 

[Sir Boniface Harrison]

Here's mine. I haven't a clue how old it is; I reckon it is around the turn of the last century looking at the artistic style. Judging by the word 'Cartouches' as opposed to 'Amorces' it might actually be a tin for tiny rimfire cartridges for small 'Bulldog' type revolvers. Or it could be for musket caps. The diameter of the tin is 3 and a quarter inches.