Reloader 22 Prime-All

[stlg67]

I recently purchased a few packs to try and start reloading primers. I was wondering if anyone has had any luck using this product?

 

[fiver]

guy i know on another site was using this stuff with decent results in some pistol ammo.
i haven't heard if he ever tried it in any rifles.

 

[Bret4207]

Interesting, but jeeze! I'd have to be really desperate. OTOH, I don't dare shoot up what I have, so maybe I should rethink that...

 

[stlg67]

I hope to try some in a blackout, I'll let you know how they do.

 

[Jeff H]

Interesting, but jeeze! I'd have to be really desperate. OTOH, I don't dare shoot up what I have, so maybe I should rethink that...

Well,... yeah,... THAT.

At what point are we "desperate?" Primer prices are still insane, even if they're down a slight bit - I still don't see them in stock. I'm not currently hurting because I shoot mostly single-shot rifles and five-shot revolvers and I don't get to shoot that often, BUT I have a fair bit of my life and my earnings invested in stuff I won't be able to afford to use if I have to pay what they're asking. $30/k primers? Probably never happen again, and I've only paid that ONCE and the guy screwed me, because there was only 800 in the brick. So much for being nice.

When the $10/k percussion caps dried up at Dixie Gun Works, I bought the "Tap-'O-Cap" and started making them. It was WAY more trouble, and WAY less reliability than sucking it up and paying $20/k for percussion caps. I do have the option of converting to flint-lock, which I am seriously considering.

I don't have those options with the fixed cartridge guns, so I'm wondering if I shouldn't try this. If I DO have to resort to it, I'll have had some practice and would have time to lay in supplies. If I DON'T have to resort to it, I'll have learned something for certain, of which I only have a preconceived notion at this time.

 

[Bret4207]

I'm considering getting flint locks for my 2 MLers. Not that I shoot them a lot, but I can make BP at home and a sparky rock isn't that hard to find even up here.

 

[nanuk]

Just dragging up a NecroThread to remind you folks in the US just how lucky you are

up here, folks are paying over $100/C for LR and LRM primers, over $50/C

I laugh when I read about guys saying they'd never pay $X for primers... lucky them if they don't have to.

but some of us.... well, if we want to shoot, we have to pay. I have been scrounging ANY primers I can get for under $25/C. Won't stop till I get 25K in my supplies

 

[fiver]

we won't buy them at stupid prices because they don't cost that much.
2 weeks ago they were offering nobel sport 209 size primers at 40$ a brick, with $5.95 shipping, if you bought 10-K.


i realize that's like $8,000 Canadian,,, but still.

 

[blackthorn]

Your U.S. dollar plus 25 to 30%!!!

 

[nanuk]

209's are a LOT cheaper, as are SP

but I have 5-6k 209's from my MZ days

 

[nanuk]

we won't buy them at stupid prices because they don't cost that much.
2 weeks ago they were offering nobel sport 209 size primers at 40$ a brick, with $5.95 shipping, if you bought 10-K.


i realize that's like $8,000 Canadian,,, but still.

and then there's all the taxes!

 

[stlg67]

I've been really busy since Dec, hopefully I'll have time to try the reloaded primers in a rifle and tell how they did.