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    Hot musket caps

    Does anyone know if hot caps like CCI caps are available. Source? Thanks Scott.

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    CCI musket caps have not been "hot" for some years. The story is that they got sued 10 years or so ago now after someone got hurt by cap fragments and they weakened them in response. For a while they were labeled as "FOR REENACTOR USE" but then you could buy them with a label that said "GENERAL PURPOSE" but if you peeled off that label the "FOR REENACTOR USE" label was underneath.

    I found the CCI caps to work unreliably with gun that did not have a straight-in fire channel. Guns with a straight-in channel, like the Enfield, would work OK.

    Dynamite Nobel RWS are the best, but they cannot be found in the US these days. I've heard a rumor that they won't be.

    Shuetzen is about your only choice right now. They are good, hot caps, but are brass-plated steel, not pure brass/copper, so they require a good-fitting nipple. Otherwise, they might not go off on the first strike as the first strike just seats the cap on the nipple.
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    6 wing cci hot musket caps

    I have 3000.

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    Caps

    Are they for sale? How much? Thanks. Scott

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