Primers primers and primers

[oley55]

You guys have really given me some good times. Since I am still quite new to reloading I have had a ball trying different power, different loads, different bullets. It really has been fun to play at the range and try different things. I have lots of time now that I retired and I am having a lot of fun shooting again. Thank you for putting up with my silly questions

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prezactly what he said.

 

[RC20]

My take on questions is as long as the person is doing their best, they arn't silly.

They may seem so to someone who has forgotten they too started low and worked up. I havn't.

I worked with a guy on switch gear and diesels who was afraid of 480 Volts, smoked like a chimney he was so nervous , made an extremely serious mistakes that could have cost us an engine. We thought he was worth helping along.

Years latter I had interaction with him and he portended he was self made, golden, perfect. Hmm, dude you screwed up that seal on the injection pump and I was the one that caught it was dumping even more diesel into the crank. His arrogance was astonishing..

I was lucky. My dad reloaded and I had an idea of what it was about. My step dad got us into it latter on and he taught us good basics. So when I got deeper into it, I had a solid base.

And that also gets into what combo of reading and seeing it makes sense to whatever mix is in your brain.

 

[Grey_Lion]

I seem to remember a post indicating serious problems when someone accidentally used pistol primers in rifle rounds and had the powder charge bulge out the pistol primer and had some rounds that the powder charge actually burned through the primer and damaged the firearm.

My reads on primers otherwise tend to lean more in ensuring the primer is of a strength to fully ignite your powder charge. An under powered primer can cause unignited powder to flash in other areas such as in the bore during brass extraction. There was a recent pic of a 223 shell that was dented and pitted because of this condition. That was on the reloading blog on this board coming out of Hawaii.