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[JeepKuntry]

Need to know what cap. Gun is a TC New Englander ML. Asking for a friend.

 

[JeepKuntry]

He has this but doesn't know what kind of cap this is?

 

[Stykbow]

I've never had any caps with that flared bottom, but unless the nipple has been replaced it should use #11 caps. Caps are cheap, so if nothing else he could just buy some and try them.


If you're going to be stupid, you'd better be tough!

 

[JeepKuntry]

He had some #11 but they were not wide enough. Then he pulled a few of those out of a container. I have never seen anything like that.

 

[ADR]

I had some old musket caps years ago that looked very similar to the one shown. It is bigger than a #11. Not saying that is what that is but resembles it.

 

[Stykbow]

He had some #11 but they were not wide enough. Then he pulled a few of those out of a container. I have never seen anything like that.

Then it's a musket cap for sure.


If you're going to be stupid, you'd better be tough!

 

[Grill-n-man]

It's a musket cap. Probably changed over from #11 years ago. Used to if you wanted more fire to powder you drilled out the #11 nipple to make the fire channel bigger, some even put powder in the nipple, or changed over to a musket cap nipple. Musket caps are still available but not as common as #11 caps. That New Englander is a fine gun. Remember the days when one was brought out all mouths went to drooling and one was considered to have money if you had one of those

 

[shrimphead]

x2 musket cap

 

[Wobblyshot1]

Ditto on musket caps. I've gone through literally thousands when I use to shoot my P58 Enfield regularly.

 

[JeepKuntry]

Thanks guys. Just somebody at the local range yesterday afternoon. He had 0 experience with any ML. Musket caps predated my time. The gun shop told him he needed shotgun primers. I told him to take the primers, bullets, and powder and use it in a CVA Wolf. LOL

 

[Wobblyshot1]

You can easily convert it back to a nipple( 1/4-28 ) that accepts #11 caps which will reliably set off Pyrodex. Link below for starter ML folks....heavy on traditional.

https://www.nmlra.org/getting-started-in-muzzle-loading

 

[mike243]

Had a 5-8 cook off in my shirt pocket 1 evening about dark, muzzy hunting in Scott county 1 cold ass day and dropped my 2 way radio in my pocket, forgot about the MC, bouncing down the trail on the atv with my buddy setting on the back, bang, thought I had been shot but no pain, my 2 way radio was a drop in charge model and the charging points heated them up enuff to cook them off. Got lucky learn by my mistakes lol