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Percussion Caps
Unlike flints you can’t find percussion caps laying around on the ground.
I recently reworked a nice little rifle that I built for my wife back in 1975. After going through all my old muzzle loading gear, I couldn’t come up with a single #11 cap.
I did some checking around and it seems they’ve gone the same way as rifle primers.
My question is... Does anyone know where I can buy some, and do they require hazmat shipping like primers?
The rifles lock is a small Siler so I could easily change it over to flint if this cap thing is too annoying!
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RE: Percussion Caps
Hah! Supply issues never end. IMO the early Pennsylvania flintlock rifles (before the gaudy brass ornamentation) are the most beautiful of all rifles to date. Same thoughts for the half-stock percussion plans rifles (Hawken, etc). After that, lever actions.
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RE: Percussion Caps
Mike I have to agree with you.
I I build a St Louis Plains rifle several years ago and still shoot it and I like the Southern Mountains rifles build for the fur trades.
I like the plain Jane long working rifles.
I build several of these in the past I have some furniture left for one more
Hope you do well at the Q.
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RE: Percussion Caps
(06-10-2022, 06:25 PM)mherth Wrote: Hah! Supply issues never end. IMO the early Pennsylvania flintlock rifles (before the gaudy brass ornamentation) are the most beautiful of all rifles to date. Same thoughts for the half-stock percussion plans rifles (Hawken, etc). After that, lever actions.
I have to agree about early PA rifles. Colonial up to the revolution are my favorites. From the mid seventies until the late eighties, I built twenty five muzzle loading rifles, mostly flint longrifles. I quit when other shooting interests took hold. Lately I’ve had the itch again. I’ve been eyeing one of Jim Kibler kits. Sort of cheating as he does all the inletting, but his architecture is beautiful! I don’t know if I’d have it in me to start from a maple blank again!
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