kalielkslayer
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This may be redundant but I haven’t seen it before, so here goes.
Another THR member ordered the $499/5,000 Ginex primers from Capitol Cartridge. He messaged me because he was willing to sell 2,000 of them.
Between yesterday and today, I loaded 100 of them.
I fired 7 of them in my “plinking” load; 5.5 grains Silhouette, 1.150 OAL, 124 grain Berrys, mixed range brass.
I didn’t test for velocity or accuracy…..yet.
But all 7 went boom, ejected, picked up the next cartridge, and locked back the slide when empty. Glock 17.
Loading on a Dillion 550C, I noticed they seemed harder to seat than the Federal primers I have been using. The first 30, I felt 2 that didn’t seem right. I inspected them at station #2. Both needed further seating. That isn’t a problem IF I CATCH IT! I easily seated them with my hand primer and moved on.
Today I did another 50. Same issue. I probably had to seat 3 more by hand.
But using “range brass” I sometimes have the same issue. I honestly think it’s more a brass problem than a primer problem.
Next run I’m gonna do 100 with new Starline brass. I don’t think I’ll have a problem.
My other option is deprime and size before tumbling, then hand prime. Let the tumbler run 2.5 hours so the primer pockets are CLEAN!
But I think using new brass will eliminate this issue so that’s the first fix.
PS: If I was loading XTPs, or even Berrys hybrid hollow points for SD, I would use new brass and CCI standard SPPs.
Another THR member ordered the $499/5,000 Ginex primers from Capitol Cartridge. He messaged me because he was willing to sell 2,000 of them.
Between yesterday and today, I loaded 100 of them.
I fired 7 of them in my “plinking” load; 5.5 grains Silhouette, 1.150 OAL, 124 grain Berrys, mixed range brass.
I didn’t test for velocity or accuracy…..yet.
But all 7 went boom, ejected, picked up the next cartridge, and locked back the slide when empty. Glock 17.
Loading on a Dillion 550C, I noticed they seemed harder to seat than the Federal primers I have been using. The first 30, I felt 2 that didn’t seem right. I inspected them at station #2. Both needed further seating. That isn’t a problem IF I CATCH IT! I easily seated them with my hand primer and moved on.
Today I did another 50. Same issue. I probably had to seat 3 more by hand.
But using “range brass” I sometimes have the same issue. I honestly think it’s more a brass problem than a primer problem.
Next run I’m gonna do 100 with new Starline brass. I don’t think I’ll have a problem.
My other option is deprime and size before tumbling, then hand prime. Let the tumbler run 2.5 hours so the primer pockets are CLEAN!
But I think using new brass will eliminate this issue so that’s the first fix.
PS: If I was loading XTPs, or even Berrys hybrid hollow points for SD, I would use new brass and CCI standard SPPs.