CCI Musket Caps

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delmarskid posted this 09 August 2026

I know that they aren’t great but I think they have gotten worse. This fresh tin I opened today gave me hang fires and miss fires about 30% of the time today. The cone was cleared and I could blow through the channel. I like Schuetzen and RWS but they aren’t around. I used my flint lock pan primer to fill the cone with ffff and it went off like a rocket to Russia but who wants to piddle around like that?

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tomme boy posted this 10 August 2026

The CCI are not meant to be used for actually shooting a gun. They are for re enactors only shooting just powder only. Find some RWS or Schuetzen. 

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delmarskid posted this 10 August 2026

I have a 30 year old Euroarms (Navy Arms) 1858 two band with a 1:48” twist. There’s no cleanout of course. Today I gave it a thorough scrub that included the patent breech and flash channel. A 7/32” allen key will pass through the channel . I can draw a slow breath through the barrel with the cone out of it. After doing all this I held a lighter an inch from the muzzle and blew it out with a CCI cap. I have 100 Schuetzen caps that I have been holding in reserve. My local shop carries CCI’s so I like to use them. Most places so far sell 200 primers. Shipping and hazmat makes this unrealistic for me.

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tomme boy posted this 11 August 2026

Switch it over to a #11 cap and you will be fine. Standard #11 caps have WAY more power than these junk new CCI musket caps. The old CCI caps were a true MAG cap. And the re enactors were getting injured from the cap throwing metal fragments into the shooters. I know first hand. I was popping a couple primers to clear out the breech. One of the wings flew off and went into my forearm. DEEP. I had to go to the ER to have it removed. 

 

And that is why the CCI caps are what they are now.  

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delmarskid posted this 11 August 2026

I was using a no.11 cone but the bolster threads got so buggered I had to goto a 9mm threaded cone. The CCI magnum no.11’s were perfect.

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delmarskid posted this 11 August 2026

Besides cleaning everything I could imagine I noticed that the hammer was off to the side of the cone enough to possibly keep all of the flame from entering the channel. I bent the hammer and filed the top of the cone to make everything square and today it ran like a watch.

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