What Did You Shoot Today?

CWLONGSHOT

Well-Known Member
Shot my 10mm G40 & Carbine.

Also my 1894 & Blk Hawk 4 5/8 357 Magnums.

Velocity testing and first time shooting 1894 since action work. It ran 100% and I am THRILLED!!

CW
 

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
The S&W 24-3 will be on its way to a new home, next week, so didn't want the 624 to feel like it'd lost its best friend. Lyman 429421 and 13-grains of 2400. Who says 2400 burns clean? There's more unclean inside the gun rug, from where it rubbed against the cylinder, than there is on the cylinder. It works, though.
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Shot the .223 Ruger American Rifle, too, testing BL-C(2) in the hopes of finding an accuracy load so I can use up the remaining 1/3 pound of it. I don't know what's more wasteful: wasting primers testing a powder that's not done anything other than waste primers while testing it, or just sprinkling it in the yard and not wasting any more primers.
 

Ian

Notorious member
More fun to dispose of it 22 grains at a time into reactive targets than don't care about an "accuracy load" than to sprinkle on the yard. Just sayin'. Primers aren't worth a damned thing until the moment you pop them, anyway.
 

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Problem is, I'm down to the last 400 small rifle primers. Bought the rifle two months before the Chinese flu and the guv shut down the state, caused the local gun store to close, and primers to become Dodo birds.

Yep, if I had enough primers, sprinkling powder wouldn't even be a consideration.
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
You ought to get a Haz-Mat license and sell primers and powder to the less supplied forum members.
You can’t afford my primers.

Some are vintage.

I can make you a hell of a deal on mixed size spent primers.
 

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
You can’t afford my primers.

Some are vintage.

I can make you a hell of a deal on mixed size spent primers.
Only need small rifle, so will take however many non-vintage you can cram into a medium flat rate box.
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
i got a bunch of pre tested non vintage small rifle primers, i'm not sorting them out from the large ones.
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Why do we keep testing them fiver? Mine always pass the test.
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
well,,, occasionally i get one that is a mis-match to a case with a too deep primer pocket and i have to throw the bad case in the scrap bucket.
you don't know until you try all your cases with all your primer types.
 

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
I had one yesterday that took hit two hits to ignite -- Starline .44 Special brass and Winchester primer.
 

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
Shot the .223 Ruger American Rifle, too, testing BL-C(2) in the hopes of finding an accuracy load so I can use up the remaining 1/3 pound of it. I don't know what's more wasteful: wasting primers testing a powder that's not done anything other than waste primers while testing it, or just sprinkling it in the yard and not wasting any more primers.
I don't look at it as wasting primers. I have lots of partially used one pounders that I've been burning up that didn't make the cut for their intended purpose. I look at it as a learning experience. Besides I'm having fun, too.

That being said, I'm flush with primers. SRP is the only size I don't keep on hand. Smallest centerfire, I load for, is a 243W.
 

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
I've more large rifle, and large and small pistol primers to meet my shooting demands for many years to come. The .223 is my first and only rifle that requires small primers, so never had any stash saved up. Bought the rifle and a brick of primers two months before state was put on house arrest and the only local and full-service gun store was forced to close. There is a California chain gun and fishing store located 20-miles away, but it doesn't stock primers, and neither does the nearby national chain, Big-5. I have to rely on Powder Valley, but their availability has been very spotty and I'm not about to pay $75 to $100 per brick.

So, in a sense, trying to find an accuracy load with a partial bottle of powder that has never lived up to expectations with any cartridge, bullet or rifle combination that it's been loaded for, in the hope that just one more attempt will result in a 100-yard, five-shot bug hole, is a waste of primers that could have been used to assemble a proven accuracy load. That said, it was still a fun and enjoyable session.

Yep, even load experiments or shooting sessions that don't produce the desired results are still successful experiments or sessions, because you learn what doesn't work, or pulling the trigger that resulted in a less than stellar group was still fun.
 

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
I've more large rifle, and large and small pistol primers to meet my shooting demands for many years to come.
Best case scenario would be to trade with a local reloader, on a one for one basis. Powder Valley is where I obtain my primers. Before the madness, LGS were at $40/brick. I was paying $25/ brick. Bought enough, along with powder, to absorb the HazMat charges.