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[Ray]

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[Grizz]

is it time to upgrade to flintlock? or matchlock perhaps?

[AmBraCol]

Last summer (2022) I checked all along our route as we traveled the western states and found zilch, nada, zero - except for one place that had a few magnum caps (No 11's, IIRC) at $15/100. Wasn't hungry enough for them to bite, but that was all I saw at the time. Made me wish I'd picked up a few more tins the summer before at... whatever it was I paid in a well stocked hardware store in SW MO. They were $6 or 8, I honestly don't recall. I get the impression that there was a boom in the number of cap and ball shooters over the past couple of years. Components and launching platforms have been in short supply, especially the former.

[Griff]

A few months ago I found 12 packages of Remington #10s at the Bass Pro across the lake from me... No, I wasn't stingy, only bought 10, I have a standing order for 1,000 from my local dealer when she can find a distributor with stock. I haven't been shooting my percussion pistols at matches due to the shortage. I had checked on-line the night before and they didn't list any in stock, I thought about trying the 2 Cabela's in the DFW area, but didn't want to drive that far... knowing how opposed I am to driving, you'd understand!

[Ysabel Kid]

Haven't seen them in forever and a day.

[Bill in Oregon]

Hmmm. I'll be keeping an eye out for Remington No. 10s at the Abilene gun show this morning, as I have a set of Slixshot nipples coming for the Navy ...

[Ray]

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[Bill in Oregon]

Ray, it's a plain-vanilla Pietta and it is on the way from Midway. I bought a tin of CCI No. 10s yesterday and should have bought the 11s, dang it.

[Ray]

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[Bill in Oregon]

Wouldn't dream of buying one of the "fantasy .44s" built on Navy frames, any more than I would buy a cheap-jack China-made dragon-ninja samurai sword for $29 at a bad gun show ...

[Griff]

A bunch of other cowboy action shooters tell me that Piettas like .375 balls and that Ubertis take .380s. IME, of which I only have experience with The Colt 2nd Gen 1851s & a couple of spare Uberti cylinders, (which drop in BTW), .375s work just fine,without the hammer trick. They don't cut much of a ring, but enough.