Louisiana has Bayou Shooter ... members in the state can buy and sell face to face and arrange pick-up's to avoid shipping and hazemat fee's .In California we have a gun forum called calguns. People buy, sell and trade a lot of things, including powder and primers. Do you have something similar where you are?
Nowadays we need to learn to impovise. Instead of the exact make and model, look for something close and make it work. I have learned a lot going through several lean years. Without those I am probably still using varget and nothing else.
-TL
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Haha. Anything at Gun Shows you need lube.When you find published data from anywhere, the primer is listed because it is relevant to the entire report -- much like the length of barrel is listed and often the ambient temperature is listed. However you do NOT have to use the specific primer they have used.
If you can find the proper size rifle primer (and you use proper and safe procedures loading well under max to start...) then any rifle primer should be perfectly fine.
So your search should include any large rifle primer, and whatever you find is where you start.
If you absolutely positively cannot find any primers at any price -- you can and you will find some at a gun show. But bring lubricant and painkillers.
Well I've never loaded 6.5 Grendel... a quick search says that it uses a small rifle primer so no... ya cannot use a large rifle primer there.
Thank you. Very good information. So much to learn.Well I've never loaded 6.5 Grendel... a quick search says that it uses a small rifle primer so no... ya cannot use a large rifle primer there.
However for your .308, .270, other ones that use LP then yes, use ANY that you find. What's important is not which brand of primer, it's that you follow safe practices and procedures. This means that you start well under published max -- 10% under max is a good place, and you work towards your goal.
When you've found your goal, you're good. Now when you run out of primers, you can buy whatever you find. However safe practice and procedure demands that you start your load work-up over again.
It's not safe to insert some new primer in a load that you developed with another primer.
There is no reason to suspect that you cannot build a load just as good/better with whatever primer you find than whatever primer the published load used -- just follow safe practices while you do it.
WOW!! That is just crazy. I have some Hornady brass for the Grendel. I will definitely keep an eye out for different primer sizes.Unless you get a surprise as shown here: https://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=615645
Unexpected primer pocket sizes are getting more common.
Once upon a time the idea that .45ACP would have a small primer would have been laughed at. Now I have to inspect cases.
I don't have the energy for that, but good idea.Internet sites, in the middle of the night.