{"id":146001,"date":"2021-05-30T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=146001"},"modified":"2021-05-30T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T12:32:30","slug":"make-your-own-percussion-caps-the-kit-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/make-your-own-percussion-caps-the-kit-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Your Own Percussion Caps – The Kit Works!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The #11 percussion cap maker seems a lot more complicated than it is. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This article and video are part a new Black Powder Project<\/a> here at GunsAmerica. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I met a drop dead genius at SHOT Show of 2017 and interviewed him<\/a>. He had developed a simple system to reload your .22 LR cartridges, and had even built the molds and all the tools you need, from scratch. This wasn’t some Kickstarter idea. Had had created working kits, and they had been out in the market for some time, unbeknownst to me and pretty much everyone else. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides the .22 reloader, this guy Brian had invented a reloading system for Berdan primed brass, and a system to make your own #11 percussion caps<\/em>. He gave me some samples, but they got thrown in a pile somewhere and I never got around to trying them. We were already headed into year two of the Trump slump in the gun industry, and nobody cared about reloading .22s and Berdan primed brass, or making caps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This series <\/a>is sponsored by Star & Bullock hardware<\/a>. They make an easy to use paper cartridge kit for BP pistols that you have to try to appreciate how easy it is, much like this cap making kit. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward to 2021, when ammo is scarce, and when you can find it, is three times the normal price. Likewise percussion caps. You now see them around, but at 10 cents a cap, not 3 – 4 cents that they have been historically in years past. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, who the heck wouldn’t want to make their own percussion caps?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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