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musket cap
A rifled musket, rifle musket, or rifle-musket is a type of firearm made in the mid-19th century. Originally the term referred only to muskets that had been produced as a smoothbore weapon and later had their barrels replaced with rifled barrels. The term later included rifles that directly replaced, and were of the same design overall as, a particular model of smoothbore musket.
For reference the firearm in question is a Lyman Plains pistol 50-cal and the powder is Triple7 FFG.
Was able to acquire some 4-wing musket caps and thought it'd be a simple nipple swap. Bought a musket cap nipple from Track of the Wolf. The musket nipple was taller than the #11 nipple so I...
I have 1000 Schuetzen 4-wing musket caps.
I'm looking for RWS 4-wing musket caps.
For whatever reason, my muzzleloader will not ignite the Schuetzen caps (but will the RWS). If your rifle works fine with Schuetzen, I'm willing to swap these 2-for-1.
Only looking to trade in person in the...