Quote Originally Posted by enfield2band View Post
This is why I think the cost of percussion caps and top hats are over priced.

209 primers and centrefire primers are half the price but during manufacture, apart from having more components than a percussion cap, they also have to be within a tight tolerance of 10th's of a thousandth of an inch or they will not go in the primer pocket, or they will fall out.

Percussion caps and top-hats must be a lot easier to produce, and the tolerances do not have to be as precise, so they should not be any dearer than centrefire primers.
A case of supply and demand I guess as many more shotgun primers are probably produced than BP percussion caps.
Brian