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Small rifle primers in 9mm reloads?
unfy:
--- Quote from: SemperFiGuy on May 03, 2013, 09:29:59 AM ---I'm planning to make a deal w/unfy. "I'll shoot 20 rounds of your be-yoo-tee-fulll red-coated stuff if you'll shoot these 20 rounds for me. Could you move a coupla lanes more to the left?"
'Course it will never work. unfy is wayyyyyyyyy too wise and innately cautious for that kinda caper.
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I don't have any Win231.
If I did, I'd offer to try a reduced 38 special load with magnum primers (assembled by myself of course).
I'm sure my S&W 686P can take any possible abuse :P
GreyGeek:
--- Quote from: GreyGeek on May 03, 2013, 08:23:17 AM ---I've dropped back to a batch of 3.7 grs of HP-38 but haven't fired them yet. HP-38 is hot and I was concerned about not filling the casing and possibly causing a detonation so I calculated the volume the 3.7 grs took and found that it left only 20% of the space empty.
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Yesterday my wife and I went to Ikes and did a little shooting. It turns out that the batch of bullets with 3.7 gr of HP-38 is a little weak. About 20% of the rounds FTEd. On the good side there were no flattened or cratered primers! :) Looks Like I be loading with 4.0 grs.
Also on the good side, my wife fired a weapon for the first time in her life. After shooting about 20 rounds on the 21 yrd range , with half hitting the dirt in front of the targets and one hitting paper, we got her grip straightened out, and she understood what the sight picture should look like. My targets are 8X11 paper with a 3" black dot at the center. On the 7 yrd range her last four rounds were on paper. One and two were 4" from the bull, at 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock, one was at 5 o'clock just outside the bull, and one was at 5 o'clock just inside the bull. She did very well!
But, the 9 mm Nano is too much for her 70 year old bones and her hand began hurting, so we called it a day after shooting about 120 or so rounds. I'm going to downsize her to a Phoenix Arms HP-22, which has little recoil and a shorter trigger pull.
http://www.phoenix-arms.com/Products/HP22A.html
and after almost 5,000 rounds:
358156hp:
Simply put, you can use SR primers in SP applications, but you'll need to start your load development at the published starting loads and work your loads up or down as needed. Some powders can exhibit pressure spikes if ignited too briskly, and while I've used SR primers in handgun calibers before (and will again), I've only used them with slower burning ball powders, never with fast flake powders like Bullseye or Titegroup, so I can't offer any insight on that option.
SemperFiGuy:
--- Quote ---So I made up 20 rounds. Haven't shot 'em yet. Chicken.
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Well, yesterday I finally got around to shooting the .38Spcl loads [3.5gr Win231, 148gr BerrysBullets Double-Ended Gilded Wadcutters, Winchester Small Pistol Magnum Primers (instead of regular WSPs)].
About the same level of recoil as my usual .38Spcl loads, which use 4.0gr of Win231 and regular WSP primers. Made more of a higher, crisper "crack" sound that my usual reloads.
But......no flattened primers, no spent cases hard to eject from cylinder, nor any other sign of excess pressure.
So there you are, FWIW.
sfg
GreyGeek:
--- Quote from: SemperFiGuy on May 19, 2013, 10:09:06 PM ---no flattened primers,
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Any cratering?
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