Price of Percussion Caps

[Kappa]

There is one shop local to me that has a good supply of #11 caps. I was buying Remington caps for $9 a tin until they ran out. Now all they have are CCI Magnums for $11 a tin. It sucks, but we burn through a lot of them with our 4-H group, so we'll keep buying them.

We have a hard enough time with procurement for small bore and pellets for our club, I wish Illinois 4h would get black powder and Western Heritage.

 

[Mark E. Prickett]

Can someone who has gotten some from Walmart give me the number off of them. I want to try to have our stoor order some.

 

[fireman1]

I'm heavy on caps and would sell some but shipping them is such a no no.

 

[earlwb]

Yes if you order online the hazmat fees are a killer. You have to order a large quantity of stuff to make it more palatable. I have been wanting to get some musket caps just a couple three hundred not 5,000. But the $20-$25 even $50 at some online stores make it a difficult proposition. I might be better off just getting a kit to make my own percussion caps.

Wal Mart a few years ago caved in to the anti-gun pressures when they decided to not sell guns and ammo in city/urban/metroplex located stores. Only their stores way out in the rural areas still sell guns and ammo. So they might have percussion caps or not. It depends on the store and who runs it.

 

[Okie Hog]

What is it that could possibly make percussions cap cost 6 cents each let alone 12 cents?

Demand for caps. profiteering and scalping.

 

[JB Books]

Those prices aren't coming down. You're looking at the "new normal". Walmart is stocking less of everything as they are preparing for an economic collapse and don't want to be stuck with a bunch of inventory nobody has money to buy.

I wish I could find caps at all. Here in Kremlinfornia Walmart stopped handling anything firearms except cleaning supplies, holsters/cases and clay pigeons. Don't know why they carry that stuff without the applicable hardware? They even got rid of Airsoft and PaintBall. Although they still have BB/ pellet rifles and supplies and those are locked up like the real deal. My trucker freind that now resides in Missouri brings me the stuff I need.

 

[Splitear]

We have a hard enough time with procurement for small bore and pellets for our club, I wish Illinois 4h would get black powder and Western Heritage.

Are you guys on the list for the Federal Youth Shotshell/Rimfire program. They usually run a program every fall (shotshell) and spring (rimfire) that will let you order both at a discount. You may want to reach out to Vista Outdoors to get on that list, the stuff I get comes from Jon Zinnel. You have to be quick, most of the time they sell out within the day, and the Fall order usually comes out in July, and the Spring in December.

I'm surprised that Illinois doesn't at least offer Muzzleloading. I know many states (NY included) has a hard time getting our insurance to cover the Western Heritage. I'm originally from Southern Illinois (Edwards County), though I was not into 4-H or Muzzleloading while I lived there. What part are you from?

 

[Boatncamp]

My local gun shop had 4 tins of Remington #11 marked at $24.99 which I thought was highway robbery. Stopped in the store last week they had sold.

 

[Crooked Creek]

Can someone who has gotten some from Walmart give me the number off of them. I want to try to have our stoor order some.

This is the tag at wal mart in southern Indiana. I can find the tag, just no caps on the peg. Gotta be there at the right time!

 

[BigAl52]

Can someone who has gotten some from Walmart give me the number off of them. I want to try to have our stoor order some.

https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/threads/cci-11-percussion-caps.149117/

 

[fireman1]

Demand for caps. profiteering and scalping.

Sure...nothing about the increased cost of material, labor or transportation. All just evil capitalism.

 

[BozoMiller]

Everything is expensice these days. I bought them back in the 80's for around 4$ per 100. But my salary was 10$ per hour, so it's all relative.

 

[Okie Hog]

Sure...nothing about the increased cost of material, labor or transportation. All just evil capitalism.

Malarky!!! The average price of #11 caps has tripled to quadrupled in two years.

Some few vendors, like Wal Mart, manage to sell the things for around $5.00/100. The rest charge up to $20/100 or even more.

So long as muzzleloader shooters/hunters are willing to pay outrageous prices for caps the price will remain outrageous.

Back in early September an acquaintance asked me where he could find #11 caps. Told him i just come from Wal Mart and the store had caps at $5.32/100. The guy never went to Wal Mart. Last week he came back expecting me to give him some caps: Sent him packing.

 

[Okie Hog]

Everything is expensice these days. I bought them back in the 80's for around 4$ per 100.

i found an Oklahoma firearms dealer that had shelves full of CCI and Remington #11 caps during the "Obama will outlaw muzzleloading" panic for $2.99/100. i put many other muzzleloader users onto them and they sold out at $2.99/100.

 

[B P Maniac Shooter]

At least it's not as bad as G*nBroker.

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That's pretty much highway robbery. WOW.

 

[B P Maniac Shooter]

Can someone who has gotten some from Walmart give me the number off of them. I want to try to have our stoor order some.

Here you go......

 

[sportster73hp]

$5.32 is a great price at Walmart. Most places are selling them for $12.99/tin or even higher.
I've even read where some shooters are paying $25.00 per tin.
I've bought lots of CCI's for $5.32 and will continue too when I find them.
I bought 55 tins of CCI's for $5.00 a tin ( $275.00 ) 12-14 months ago in a pawn shop over in the next town.
For those that will accuse me of hoarding...I left 20 tins for others.
Pawn shops are the best place to look these days......

And you let others burn powder and caps in your guns at pioneer park.
Mark... What a guy!

 

[docmel]

I am sorry, but learn to MAKE YOUR OWN, Lotsa posts here on that, I make them myself

 

[Big Bear Joe]

Love my flintlocks, never have to rely on mass-produced anything...
Have you seen the latest prices for flintlock rifles and pistols? :0

 

[Black Dog]

Apropos "unmentionables," there has been no new brass available since 2020 for the best one-shot-stop SD revolver-and-rifle round in history, and an FFL-dealer longtime friend tells me this is no accident, that it's part of the federal government's (bi-partisan) plan for forcible civilian disarmament and the reduction of all of us to mandatory pacifism and compulsory victimhood -- that is, to the definitive condition of slavery.

Whether that is also the reason for the percussion-cap shortage, I know not, and neither does he.

Nevertheless -- despite the hitherto-prohibitive fact I live where there's a nine-month rainy season -- I too am acquiring rocklocks, hoping to learn how my British ancestors kept them reliable while exploring, trapping and settling in these regions.