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In today’s world you can’t always find the primer that is specified for the handgun load you would like to produce.
I am almost out of small pistol primers but have plenty of small pistol magnum and small rifle primers in stock.
Assuming that my firing pins could handle the hardness of a primer change is there any reason why I could not go to the bottom of the load for that cartridge and slowly work up with the hotter primer?
I have a good chronograph I could make sure that I’m not exceeding the muzzle velocity of the small primer load.
What say you?
Thanks for your input.
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Been discussed here before. I would'nt drop all the way to the minimum load; drop .5 gr. and see where you're at on the chrono.
Let's Go Brandon! FJB
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Thanks Waders…. Looks like I shouldn’t have any problems subbing the small rifle primers in for the small pistol primers. That’s very encouraging!!! Cheers.
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If you do any formal/semi-formal testing, please post your results in that thread I linked. More data is always better.
Good luck!
Wade
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