Aguila Blanca
Staff
We currently have a thread running by a member who has primers to sell (which he can't ship because he doesn't have the appropriate license) and another thread (at least one) by a member who is looking for primers. All this chatter about the scarcity of primers and the shortage of ammunition has led a friend and me to start investigating both reloading .22 LR, and possibly refurbishing spent primers.
The company that sells the kit for reloading .22 LR ( http://22lrreloader.com/ ) sells priming compound mix ( https://sharpshooter-22lr-reloader.myshopify.com/products/prime-all-repriming-compound ). My friend has ordered the kit, but it hasn't arrived yet.
While we were starting to discuss the .22 reloading kit, I also stumbled across an article about reloading spent primers. That article suggested using the tips from strike-anywhere matches as the priming compound -- and that's also suggested for loading .22 LR. So that led to the notion of using the .22 Reloader Prime-All mix to rebuilt centerfire primers.
BUT ... then I watched a YouTube video on reloading .22 LR with the kit. I actually watched several videos, but one discussed the Prime-All compound in some detail. Apparently the kit does not identify what the components in the Prime-All kit are, but this YouTube video makes an educated guess that it's the same components that were used by the government arsenal many years ago to make a primer compound called H-48.
And the problem with H-48 is that it's a corrosive primer mix. It works, but it's corrosive. Better than nothing, but not an ideal solution.
Does anyone have a recipe or formula for mixing up priming compound that isn't corrosive?
The company that sells the kit for reloading .22 LR ( http://22lrreloader.com/ ) sells priming compound mix ( https://sharpshooter-22lr-reloader.myshopify.com/products/prime-all-repriming-compound ). My friend has ordered the kit, but it hasn't arrived yet.
While we were starting to discuss the .22 reloading kit, I also stumbled across an article about reloading spent primers. That article suggested using the tips from strike-anywhere matches as the priming compound -- and that's also suggested for loading .22 LR. So that led to the notion of using the .22 Reloader Prime-All mix to rebuilt centerfire primers.
BUT ... then I watched a YouTube video on reloading .22 LR with the kit. I actually watched several videos, but one discussed the Prime-All compound in some detail. Apparently the kit does not identify what the components in the Prime-All kit are, but this YouTube video makes an educated guess that it's the same components that were used by the government arsenal many years ago to make a primer compound called H-48.
And the problem with H-48 is that it's a corrosive primer mix. It works, but it's corrosive. Better than nothing, but not an ideal solution.
Does anyone have a recipe or formula for mixing up priming compound that isn't corrosive?