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Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: Blacklab on April 17, 2015, 12:39:21 PM

Title: Primer ?
Post by: Blacklab on April 17, 2015, 12:39:21 PM: Hey people have a ? on primers. I went and primed about 50 cases of Ruger 204. Usually use cci 450 mag. Some how I grabbed :dunno: why small pistol cci mag primers. Just wondering is there to much of a difference? I'm not worried about blowing up :chuckle: Just wondering if their worth the charge or should I re prime thanks. My signature says it all :chuckle: ;)
Title: Re: Primer ?
Post by: AWS on April 17, 2015, 12:53:44 PM: Re prime, small pistol primers are not designed to work at rifle pressures, two to three times greater than a pistol or to ignite the quantities of powder used in a rifle cartridge. You can sometimes get away with a small pistol primer in a 22 Hornet but I wouldn't go any larger with full power loads.
Title: Re: Primer ?
Post by: b23 on April 17, 2015, 01:10:57 PM: X2 re-prime them.
Title: Re: Primer ?
Post by: CP on April 17, 2015, 01:18:51 PM: I've used small pistol primers in .223 cases (because of recent shortages of small rifle primers) with no ill effects. But you should proceed at your own risk.
Title: Re: Primer ?
Post by: dmv9 on April 17, 2015, 02:31:08 PM: How do you unprime a primed cartridge?

er, safely?
Title: Re: Primer ?
Post by: Blacklab on April 17, 2015, 03:54:11 PM: Quote from: dmv9 on April 17, 2015, 02:31:08 PM
How do you unprime a primed cartridge?

er, safely?

Same as deprime pull an hope :chuckle:

Thanks guys I'll re prime ;)
Title: Re: Primer ?
Post by: b23 on April 17, 2015, 04:25:50 PM: At the least, I'd wear safety glasses and a grinding shield would probably be better but the only true way to de-prime them "safely" would be to run them all thru your gun and touch em off. I've de-primed live primers more times than I'd like to admit and never had a problem but that certainly doesn't mean it's a good idea.

It's kind of funny, I find myself being much more cautious about the little things than I ever was before. I had this conversation with my dad not to long ago and I jokingly told him, I think I must value my eyes, arms, fingers and legs a lot more than I used to. He just smiled and said "yeah, they call that maturity, son" ;)
Title: Re: Primer ?
Post by: Blacklab on April 17, 2015, 09:08:54 PM: :yeah:
.LMAO!!!
The days of being 10ft tall an bullet are over :'( ;)
Title: Re: Primer ?
Post by: yorketransport on April 17, 2015, 09:56:44 PM: Quote from: dmv9 on April 17, 2015, 02:31:08 PM
How do you unprime a primed cartridge?

er, safely?

Fire it in the gun. It's quick and easy and just sounds like a pop-it going off.

Andrew
Title: Re: Primer ?
Post by: 300rum on April 18, 2015, 07:23:45 AM: They may not be hard enough for your firing pin they may also flow and cut your breach face.
Title: Re: Primer ?
Post by: Blacklab on April 18, 2015, 08:30:02 AM: It's all new brass so I'll de prime an re size an call it day. Thanks for the input guys ;)
Title: Re: Primer ?
Post by: b23 on April 18, 2015, 09:32:54 AM: Fire it in the gun. It's quick and easy and just sounds like a pop-it going off.

Andrew
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X2! This would definitely be the prudent choice and ensure no trip to the ER.

My grandfather only had half a index finger on his left hand because on that one time doing something he'd done a thousand times before, his luck ran out and he had one of those "it's all fun and games till someone losses a finger" moments. :tup: