GINEX primers

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This topic has been picked apart before, but seeing as I have lots, I'll share my worthless observations.. They do require more effort to seat, no doubt about that. I have recently seated around 100. I tried bevelling the mouth of the primer pocket and found that helps a fair bit.

Any other tips?
 
Their Large pistol primers work great in 30-30 cast bullet loads.
But now that primers are getting more plentiful and affordable I'm not buying anymore ginex
 
Pretty much all my plinking loads use Ginex primers. In 223 and 9mm I'll swage the primer pocket again if im having difficulty or if it feels like im about to crush a primer, thats been working for me. For their LPP I haven't had any issues seating.
 
Good to note I have plenty as well. I’m not picky and will buy anything that’s cheap enough. that said I bought these and over paid most likely at the time but atleast I wasn’t paying $500 a brick off a scalper.
 
Got a good deal on a case of 5000 ginex large rifle primers just as the covid shortages started. They work well but they are simply way too tight in every piece of brass I have tried them in. I have about 4500 left that I plan to leave sitting on a shelf just incase I can't get my hands on anything else.
 
FortHunter said:
Pretty much all my plinking loads use Ginex primers. In 223 and 9mm I'll swage the primer pocket again if im having difficulty or if it feels like im about to crush a primer, thats been working for me. For their LPP I haven't had any issues seating.
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Hmmm. Swaging. I'll give that a try. Thank you!!
 
I've loaded tens of thousands of the ginex small pistol primers over the last couple years and I find that the primers are not the problem...But there are specific head stamps that are tighter than others, and those can be a bit of a ##### to get seated well. One way to avoid it is to seperate your headstamps... teduious but it should help
 
AlphaCharlieDelta said:
I've loaded tens of thousands of the ginex small pistol primers over the last couple years and I find that the primers are not the problem...But there are specific head stamps that are tighter than others, and those can be a bit of a ##### to get seated well. One way to avoid it is to seperate your headstamps... teduious but it should help
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I would buy Ginex if I know they are tighter than others just for that reason. Are you saying they are loose or normal by your experience with different brass manufacture? Cheers
 
Ginex primers are slightly larger in diameter than Federal or CCI. Brass that easily accepts other primers may be a struggle with Ginex. All brass I intend to use Ginex in gets swaged or uniformed as if it had a crimp in it. If using Ginex I would get a dozen cases and see if most seat easily or not. If it's easy then great, continue. If it's a struggle then swage/uniform/bevel the primer pockets
 
270WSMXBolt said:
I would buy Ginex if I know they are tighter than others just for that reason. Are you saying they are loose or normal by your experience with different brass manufacture? Cheers
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What I'm saying is, I don't ream my primer pockets, I use range brass of every different head stamp, and use only ginex primers. Some head stamps are tighter than others, but I can still seat them just fine. As for loose...No they are never loose in the primer pocket. Normal?? Quantify normal... If it seats, it's all good. I have had zero failure to fire in over 25k rounds loaded. Just picked up another 5k brick yesterday actually.
As a point if data, I individually prime every case with the Deraco engineering primer set up. I can set the exact depth and get consistency with it. Seats them perfect every time
 
AlphaCharlieDelta said:
I've loaded tens of thousands of the ginex small pistol primers over the last couple years and I find that the primers are not the problem...But there are specific head stamps that are tighter than others, and those can be a bit of a ##### to get seated well. One way to avoid it is to seperate your headstamps... teduious but it should help
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They actually are problematic as other comparable primers made by Federal, CCI, Winchester, Remington and Fiocchi go in easy and smoothly. Cup diameter and hardness have to do with it.
 
In my experience with Ginex primers, I notice 2 separate problems:
1) in my sample the thickness varies from 3.23 mm to 3.16 mm. So this explains why some primers sit proud of the shell’s base after seating in the primer pocket. I now invert the larger primers in an old case and lightly file off about 4/100ths of a mm. They now seat flush with the base of the cartridge. Sure it’s fiddly but, what the heck, ya do what ya gotta do, eh.
2) if your rifle has a puny firing pin (like my Savage 219 ) you’re more likely to get a “click” than a “bang” (20% failure rate on the 1st trigger pull and maybe 10% after a retry). On the other hand, I experienced no failures with my Remington 7600 a few days ago.
 
Large Rifle: Very low SD/ES for me. Several duds in a pack of 1000. Pain in the ass to seat.

Small rifle: better size. Easier seating. Still very low SD/ES
 
I had a couple 1000 LR primers, and didn't like them.

Large pistol primers like S&B and Winchester have much more power and uniform ignition in rifle rounds, than these Ginex primers, got rid of them.
 
I use a Lee press whose indexation has gone after a few rounds when new.
I turn the round plate by hand since.
I reload 38Spl and have yet to encounter any issue with Ginex.
 
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