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    German caps

    Can anyone remember how long it's been since we were able to purchase German caps?

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    About 3 to 4 years for wingless
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    ???

    I just bought a sleeve of DE caps at the National. I thought/was told, they were German...
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    As far as I know they have always been available, just sometime a little scarce. I've never used anything else. They were available at this Nat's. The packaging looked different but they were there.

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    Saw them and Schutzens available.

    I switched to Schutzen. Cheaper and seems slightly hotter than the RWS ones.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jonk View Post
    ... seems slightly hotter than the RWS ones.
    I tested them using my Maynard action as a holder for cotton patches and then with pieces of target paper.

    RWS caps are definitely hotter (did more damage in both tests) but the Schuetzen, a.k.a. Spanish caps, are louder.

    With that said, one of our top shooters this past week switched and liked them a lot.
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    The wingless caps were produced for the early in-line ML's. The technology passed them by. We were buying leftovers until they ran out.
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    When I started shooting my Romano Maynard with N-SSA about 8 years ago we were riding high on the clearance sales of the wingless caps... they were good hot German caps that worked really well (just like pistol caps on steroids) with the First Model Maynards. Since we (N-SSA shooters) were about the only ones using them and they had been somewhat over produced when the early in-lines were built, it was a real buyer's market... I only wish I had had the foresight and disposable income to buy 10 or 20 sleeves of them at the cut rate prices!

    I've been using the regular German four-wing caps on my Zouave musket pretty much from the git-go, so I have them on hand to use as my last supply of wingless dries up. I guess I'd better grab a bunch of those now that they seem to be in good supply, though.

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