Just put a strike anywhere match head in primer pocket and you're good to go.LOL. This is to much I'm gonna load with no primer, glue a flint on my bolt face and strike it with my firing pin!!!
just kidding. It's a very corrosive primer.
Help with primers for a 300 win mag
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just kidding. It's a very corrosive primer.
If you decide not to get them, let me know. I'll take all they have.
It was my understanding that during Obama term in office. The law enforcement agencies were buying up huge amount of ammo from the manufactures. Which was creating the shortage back then. It was 10 of million of rounds, and some agencies really didn't have any use for them. With the slow down with combat there should be a lot of ammo the government doesn't need. If I can find it I will post it.
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Over the Pressure Trace II, primer Brisbane goes like this from my testing, from hottest to coldest.
Magnum primers:
WLRM
FED 215
CCI 250
REM 9 1/2
Standard primers:
WLR
FED 210
CCI 200
REM 9 1/2
The test consisted of running the exact same charge, case, bullet and only switching primer.
Looking at my notes, I don't think Remington had a magnum primer and I was only able to get 9 1/2 primers anyway.
Did the same test with SRP and the hottest was the FED 205 Magnum primer...which was an obvious outcome.
For big charges of ball powder, my best results have been with WLRM primers, hands down...only issue is the pinholing problem they had, which I found last year and had the entire brick replaced by Winchester and my bolt that it buggered up.
Cheers.
Magnum primers:
WLRM
FED 215
CCI 250
REM 9 1/2
Standard primers:
WLR
FED 210
CCI 200
REM 9 1/2
The test consisted of running the exact same charge, case, bullet and only switching primer.
Looking at my notes, I don't think Remington had a magnum primer and I was only able to get 9 1/2 primers anyway.
Did the same test with SRP and the hottest was the FED 205 Magnum primer...which was an obvious outcome.
For big charges of ball powder, my best results have been with WLRM primers, hands down...only issue is the pinholing problem they had, which I found last year and had the entire brick replaced by Winchester and my bolt that it buggered up.
Cheers.
Shoot magnum primers, they are more consistent match grade if you can find them.
I have found that over the years that if you are under or about 75grs, that fed 210 did an excellent job. Mag primers in that size of load, didn't group as well. Powder, cases, and bullets were the same, just primers. I still use them even today.
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Calvin45
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As the subject of magnum vs standard primers has now arisen I again encourage the op to try whatever primers he can get his hands on without hesitation or fear that they're not appropriate.
magnum primers are at times better (I prefer 215m in my 300 win mag) but not required.
it's interesting to me federal developed the 215 specially for weatherby's monster 378 case when it was unveiled in 1953. Before that there were no "magnum" or "standard" primers, there were just primers. The .300 and .375 hh, .300, 257, and 270 wby, the magnum-ish 280 Ross, the 416 rigby, even 505 Gibbs for crying out loud....all ran optimally with what we now would regard as non-magnum primers.
magnum primers are at times better (I prefer 215m in my 300 win mag) but not required.
it's interesting to me federal developed the 215 specially for weatherby's monster 378 case when it was unveiled in 1953. Before that there were no "magnum" or "standard" primers, there were just primers. The .300 and .375 hh, .300, 257, and 270 wby, the magnum-ish 280 Ross, the 416 rigby, even 505 Gibbs for crying out loud....all ran optimally with what we now would regard as non-magnum primers.
You know some history! In 1953 I was only 5 years old. Just started to shoot a 22 rifle. Hardly knew one end or the other, but I learned.
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In 1953 my dad was 3 years old haha. Big gun nerd, when I can't be shooting them/reloading I read about it. Learn something new all the time.
Got that right, and never to old to learn either.
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Interesting fact regarding primers...the term 'flattened primers' did not mean the same as it does today. Prior to the 70's, factory primers were concave, not flat with a radius like they are today. This reference of flattened primers meant that if you experiences a completely flattened primer, you were pushing the pressure limits of the brass.
I still have boxes of Kynoch 416 Rigby rounds that are loaded with concave primers, albeit larger than we use today, and dozens of old 222 ammo with the same rounded primers.
Funny how quickly such things fade from memory.
These rounds I have were produced when very little reloading components would have been available.
Cheers.
I still have boxes of Kynoch 416 Rigby rounds that are loaded with concave primers, albeit larger than we use today, and dozens of old 222 ammo with the same rounded primers.
Funny how quickly such things fade from memory.
These rounds I have were produced when very little reloading components would have been available.
Cheers.
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