Musket Caps!

[Simcoe hunter]

McCredy's in Goldendale, call first.  I buy mine there and have never found him out of stock, yet.  Now I have probably jinxed him.

[bearkautz]

GunBroker.com
CCI Winged Musket Caps 2 Tins 200 Count Six Wing 

     
   Auction # 461431898 

[Dan-o]

I never get misfires with musket caps.   and if you pinch them, they cling just fine.

[T-Bone]

If you get up to Spokane; the White Elephant stores on Sprague or Division normally have musket caps behind the counter…ASK.

[Bob33]

I never get misfires with musket caps.   and if you pinch them, they cling just fine.

Just get RWS 11s and you don't need to pinch anythimg.

[usmc74]

I have wanted to do a video, in the dark, of all the various caps to see which has the best/most/hottest flame.
I was thinking of being in a dark room with video from the side

I have a old Remington ML barrel I could cut off, but think I need to find an action with hammer to make it legit.  Don't know if hitting the cap with a hammer would be the same as shooting?

If I get this set up, donations of several caps of different brands would make it interesting.

I have the RWS muskets and # 11.  Probably some others, but they would be old.

Anyone have a video camera that could do video to play back in slo mo, want to help?

I was thinking of a background screen with a grid in inches to use as a scale.

For the record, I like musket caps.  I have NEVER had a musket cap fall off.  I have had "no fire" if I didn't get the cap fully seated before trying to shoot.  And I do have to use a tool to get them off the nipple before putting rifle back into truck after hunting.

[Bob33]

I have wanted to do a video, in the dark, of all the various caps to see which has the best/most/hottest flame.

Sabotloader has posted several threads on this topic. The magnum #11 caps burn as hot as a musket cap. "Most flame" would need to be measured at the flash hole side of the nipple, not the firing pin side since they both have the same sized flash holes.

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php?topic=120040.0
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,88546.msg1117995.html#msg1117995

[Damnimissed]

I never get misfires with musket caps.   and if you pinch them, they cling just fine.

Just get RWS 11s and you don't need to pinch anythimg.

[Sabotloader]

I never get misfires with musket caps.   and if you pinch them, they cling just fine.

Just get RWS 11s and you don't need to pinch anythimg.

Not only that when you pinch a cap it is no longer concentric and it will not fit the nipple correctly.  An since it is not concentric you provide a water channel along the nipple to the charge in the cap.  Another reason I like #11 mags or better yet RWS1075+, when you put them on the correct nipple and expand the convolutions they are virtually rain and snow proof.

[andersonjk4]

On my elkhorn it looks like the bolt face has an "extracter". do I have to change anything there when I switch the nipple?

No, you do not need to do anything to the bolt of the rifle.  The extractor is for use with 209 primers.  I used to have an Elkhorn and shot #11 Magnums with it with success.  I popped the extractor off of my bolt because pieces of the spent caps would get caught in it then could block the firing pin on a subsequent shot.  I had the best luck with the CVA Perfect Nipple you can order these through CVA. 

[jrebel]

I never get misfires with musket caps.   and if you pinch them, they cling just fine.

Just get RWS 11s and you don't need to pinch anythimg.

Not only that when you pinch a cap it is no longer concentric and it will not fit the nipple correctly.  An since it is not concentric you provide a water channel along the nipple to the charge in the cap.  Another reason I like #11 mags or better yet RWS1075+, when you put them on the correct nipple and expand the convolutions they are virtually rain and snow proof.

You don't pinch the cap...you pinch two of the flanges.  It does not change the how concentric the cap is, it just allows the flanges to hold the nipple a little better.  I have never had water or snow in my musket cap nipples and the year I shot my cow elk, it snowed, rained and sleeted on us every day.  I have never been so wet and cold in my life.  Hunted 6 days and on day 6 the gun went bang (having never changed my load).  Water is more a factor for people that don't protect their nipples and handle the gun appropriately.   

[JJB11B]

OK! I finally got a few new nipples for my gun, I got 6 packs of the Dynamit Nobel caps from Ranch and Home and went and burned some powder yesterday now waiting on my williams peep to get here and I can get to sighting her in.

[jrebel]

OK! I finally got a few new nipples for my gun, I got 6 packs of the Dynamit Nobel caps from Ranch and Home and went and burned some powder yesterday now waiting on my williams peep to get here and I can get to sighting her in.

Best caps made in my opinion!!  Glad you found some.

[JJB11B]

Yeah I liked them when I was borrowing my grandpas gun. I gave what I didnt shoot to him when I gave his gun back. At least I knew where to get the caps. I got the nipples at griggs. I've got some spares coming via UPS ground sometime this week.

[pilebuck]

Rws caps the ones made in Germany ?