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I was told by the LGS owner that his Winchester contact told him that WLR primers were "magnum" primers and were designed to ignite larger quantities of ball type powders.
Perhaps someone is confusing large rifle primers with large pistol primers? Winchester makes large primers as well as magnum large rifle primers. On the other hand, they only make a single version of the large pistol primers which are very suitable (and recommended) for 'magnum' powders like W296.
Sometimes, the air you 'let in'matters less than the air you 'let out'.
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Before I got my RCBS Chargemaster, I used ball powders almost exclusively and W760 was favorite. I do most of my load work up in the summer and it can easily be anywhere from 100 to 115 degrees during the latter part of the day. I always used Winchester's WLR primer with excellent results. Two years ago, I worked up a load for my custom 30-06 with a 1 in 12" twist barrel. It doesn't like 180 gr. bullets at all, at least nothing in a spitzer shape. I did a quick work up with he 165 gr. Accubond, W760 and WLR primer for a load doing 2850 FPS and sum MOA accuracy and went elk hunting. It was abput 95 the day I worked uo the load, 33 degrees at Raton New Mexico when I check the sights (no change BTW) and 6 above zero when I shot my elk. Gun went bang, elk died. Note that when checking the sights at Whittington center there was no change in point of impact.
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I was told by the LGS owner that his Winchester contact told him that WLR primers were "magnum" primers and were designed to ignite larger quantities of ball type powders.
Perhaps someone is confusing large rifle primers with large pistol primers? Winchester makes large primers as well as magnum large rifle primers. On the other hand, they only make a single version of the large pistol primers which are very suitable (and recommended) for 'magnum' powders like W296. The older nickle plated that came in a white box was labled "For Standard or Magnum Loads". The newer brass primers in blue boxes doesn't have this label.
Last edited by Joe; 10/02/16.
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