OK, you all know I cross post. Just for a variety of opinions ...
I try to pride myself on research. We've all discussed substituting components, and i received great help with substituting Large Pistol Magnum primers for Large Pistol standard. Thanks. Now, to continue hammering the horse ...
LRifle primers are really hard to find locally. My question does not deal with expensive hazmat fees.
Thanks to the community my .45-70 Cimarron Sharps 1874 is on the way and I can gather everything except LR primers.
I emailed Winchester, CCI, and Federal asking if I could substitute LR Magnums in a pinch, with appropriate reductions. All responses were the lawyer safe "no, you must not deviate." OK, fine. But I searched the interweb pretty thoroughly. The vast majority of various forum answers to the question was to the effect "back down 10%, no problem, work up from there, I/we do it regularly ..."
I'm not looking to sue anybody. I'm looking for actual experiences, please. Then there's the "in cold weather best to substitute magnum primers."
Background: loading handgun calibers since 1960's. Some bottlenecks 10+ years ago. Back into .45 colt, .45 acp, .38/.357. Straight walls. I realize .45-70 is tapered, lubed, etc. Got it. Bottom line: safe loading practices. Light/staring loads in .45-70 falling block, H4198 or AA5744. LR primers unavailable, is substituting LR Magnum acceptable on an ad hoc basis?
Thanks as always. You may find same/similar post elsewhere
-jb
I try to pride myself on research. We've all discussed substituting components, and i received great help with substituting Large Pistol Magnum primers for Large Pistol standard. Thanks. Now, to continue hammering the horse ...
LRifle primers are really hard to find locally. My question does not deal with expensive hazmat fees.
Thanks to the community my .45-70 Cimarron Sharps 1874 is on the way and I can gather everything except LR primers.
I emailed Winchester, CCI, and Federal asking if I could substitute LR Magnums in a pinch, with appropriate reductions. All responses were the lawyer safe "no, you must not deviate." OK, fine. But I searched the interweb pretty thoroughly. The vast majority of various forum answers to the question was to the effect "back down 10%, no problem, work up from there, I/we do it regularly ..."
I'm not looking to sue anybody. I'm looking for actual experiences, please. Then there's the "in cold weather best to substitute magnum primers."
Background: loading handgun calibers since 1960's. Some bottlenecks 10+ years ago. Back into .45 colt, .45 acp, .38/.357. Straight walls. I realize .45-70 is tapered, lubed, etc. Got it. Bottom line: safe loading practices. Light/staring loads in .45-70 falling block, H4198 or AA5744. LR primers unavailable, is substituting LR Magnum acceptable on an ad hoc basis?
Thanks as always. You may find same/similar post elsewhere
-jb