Cap quality

[Shadow Hawk]

Riley yes my renagade has a notch. and im glad it does it makes it easyer to get the spent cap out.

[Kermit]

Thanks for the help. A buddy went to Monroe and got what was there for me. I've got 1000 CCI #11's now, so that's what I'll be shooting for a while. And since I've got one capgun (and another a-buildin'), it will be a while before I run plum out.

[MrFox]

I went to a range yesterday and it was a very humid day. It was raining terribly bad all morning, cloudy through the rest of the day and raining again at night... Obviously I was shooting in between rain periods, but it was very humid day.

I have spitfire and was shooting Shockley 3F powder.
Out of 20 shots each, Remington caps had 2 or 3 slow fires (with a second delay - bum-bang), but no misfires. CCI Magnums produced 3 or 4 slow fires and 1 misfire. I'll finish up CCI magnums, but in the future would try to buy Remington caps if available.

[Bigsmoke]

The next thing you need to do now is get over the Shockley stuff and burn real powder.  Then you will be able to judge the quality of the caps for real.
Not real impressed with that imitation stuff.  Ugh!!
But if that's all you can get, just do the best you can with what you got.
John

[Riley/MN]

The next thing you need to do now is get over the Shockley stuff and burn real powder.
John

 

[snake eyes]

The next thing you need to do now is get over the Shockley stuff and burn real powder.  Then you will be able to judge the quality of the caps for real.
Not real impressed with that imitation stuff.  Ugh!!
But if that's all you can get, just do the best you can with what you got.
John

Mr Fox,
           What Bigsmoke said++++++Avoid anything "Shockley", if for no other reason, his thinking on what Traditional Muzzleloading means If you are forced to use  the imitation stuff,use pyrodex. But as BS said use the real deal.
If you can't find it let me know.
snake-eyes

[MrFox]

Well, it goes bang and it's accurate enough to hit 2" target at 50 yards. But I will switch it over to pyrodex once I burn whatever leftovers I got. I wish I have easy access for the real powder... But I will be relocating to another state soon enough and see no reason to join local clubs (or buy big cases of powder).

[Riley/MN]

But I will be relocating to another state soon enough and see no reason to join local clubs (or buy big cases of powder).

If you can't see any reason to buy 5lbs of powder, then we jist can't help ya, son!