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Primers vs Caps
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Archer 756
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Small pistol primers here in NY are 125 to 150 per 1k
I haven't seen primers or #11s for a year and a half!
Johnny Tremain
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Did you check out the price of those primer nipples?
I did, and decided to suffer along with the ret of you
I did, and decided to suffer along with the ret of you
Year ago here in georgia, $275 per 1k if you could find em. None in stores, all individual sales.
Interesting option, thanks.
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I would go to one of the kits for making your own caps first.
My shooting mentor makes #11 caps out of old soda cans. They work just as well as factory made #11 caps, although they can't be used in a capper. There are kits online with the punch and priming solution, I think Dixie Gun Works sells one.
Anybody in Rhode Island I’d trade several hundred percussion caps for a like number of small or large pistol primers. I’ve got several thousand RWS 1075 plus. I’ve also got 11’s and 10’s but would have to check the stock as I traded 11/10’s for musket caps here in Florida but I’m not sure what I got up there in those. Returning to RI next week.
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sharpshooter-22lr-reloader google this.
make your own.
make your own.
Does this really work. I might try it.
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yep it works great. i quit when i had 2k made and switched to knapping flints
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Now that's a skill right there, Deerstalkert. I've been chipping away at rocks for a while now, and when I actually knock something useable off a pebble I'm about as happy and proud as a man can be.
As for the caps, I recently ordered one of those tools, but a #10. Did I make an error there? (Most Italian repros come with nipples for #10 caps, from what I've read). I'm also thinking about buying some light gauge copper or brass to punch the caps from instead of aluminum. What d'ya think?
As for the caps, I recently ordered one of those tools, but a #10. Did I make an error there? (Most Italian repros come with nipples for #10 caps, from what I've read). I'm also thinking about buying some light gauge copper or brass to punch the caps from instead of aluminum. What d'ya think?
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Use beer cans. Good excuse to drink more beer... 
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i have some copper sheet i use sometimes. the problem is if it is thicker than a aluminum can it causes a burr on the punch out, making it difficult to advance the material through the slit. can be done but slows down the process.
the process is slow anyway so it is not that big a deal.
one way to make stouter aluminum caps is to drive the punch half way, draw it back up, advance the aluminum and drive the punch all the way to the forming stage. this doubles up the cup and they are quite stout.
one side of the aluminum cans is treated with something that the primer doesn't like to stick to, cant remember which, inside or out.
i mix duco cement with acetone and there is no loose primer mix in the containers of caps that get shaken every time i open that drawer. which is often as my calipers live in the same drawer.
the process is slow anyway so it is not that big a deal.
one way to make stouter aluminum caps is to drive the punch half way, draw it back up, advance the aluminum and drive the punch all the way to the forming stage. this doubles up the cup and they are quite stout.
one side of the aluminum cans is treated with something that the primer doesn't like to stick to, cant remember which, inside or out.
i mix duco cement with acetone and there is no loose primer mix in the containers of caps that get shaken every time i open that drawer. which is often as my calipers live in the same drawer.
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bet Foster's lager cans would be stout!Use beer cans. Good excuse to drink more beer...
Waiting for the wife to get out of work. I found 3 tins of #11 at 1 gunshop and 3 tins of #10 caps at another gunshop. Only $11.99 each but I am running low so I bought ’em.
I've seen the primers on the shelf as opposed to the empty shelves where the caps used to be.But I never paid attention to to the price.Is this the "thrifty" route to take? But available does trump cheap.
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