Hey all,
I know most surplus ammo uses corrosive primers, and most US manufacturers primers have been good for quite awhile.
But a friend had some .38 wadcutter reloads that his uncle had made for target practice. They didn't look particularly current (brass looked a few years old) and I was wondering how common were corrosive primers for reloading? and when did they finally switch to non-corrosive?
He ran a cylinder of them through one of my guns and I didn't think much of it until now. I'm pretty positive they aren't corrosive since they were practice rounds for his uncles competition gun, who would shoot corrosive rounds out of that?
It just more of got me thinking, and since I didn't know the answer figured I would ask it here.
I know most surplus ammo uses corrosive primers, and most US manufacturers primers have been good for quite awhile.
But a friend had some .38 wadcutter reloads that his uncle had made for target practice. They didn't look particularly current (brass looked a few years old) and I was wondering how common were corrosive primers for reloading? and when did they finally switch to non-corrosive?
He ran a cylinder of them through one of my guns and I didn't think much of it until now. I'm pretty positive they aren't corrosive since they were practice rounds for his uncles competition gun, who would shoot corrosive rounds out of that?
It just more of got me thinking, and since I didn't know the answer figured I would ask it here.