Large Rifle Primers???
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What would be the approximate price? I just saw Ginex LRP available from another site sponsor right now, but the price is twice as much comparable to what I paid 6 months ago in the same store.
Even at twice the price from 6 months ago I don't think there are a lot of other better priced options now and in the near future..
I do not buy anything from Quebec they sided with the Libs on NOT to provide Carbon tax relief to the rest of Canada. If business owners want to change this then they got to vote the bloc out.
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I'm the same, and I lived in Quebec my whole life.
Not only do we have to fight Trudeau's utopia where white Anglos are the cause of all problems and POS in society, we have Legault's utopia where English people are ruining french for Quebecers and need to be attacked.
Plus Xreload requires PAL to buy primers, so they can get ####ed.
I just paid $230/1000 at a site sponsor. 5 months ago I paid $200/1000 at a local place. Bosnian. Shoot Rimfire to cut costs.
I find them a little "tight", so, I did some measuring and as it turns out, out of 6-7 samples of primers I had on the self, from old C.I.L.'s to new CCI's, Win, Fed, S&B, the Bosnian primers mic'd out at .2115" while the others were between .210 & 211" with most being around .2105" But they do go BANG! In my 40-70 Sharps Straight, groups opened up a little. I will run further tests with LPP as I have several 1000's of these.
YMMV!
Just found the confirmation email, that back In May I paid $639 for 5000 of Ginex LRP shipping and tax included. It's perplexing why LRP prices have now set to more than double that of LPP and SRP, especially considering that the prices for the latter two have stabilized around $100 post-COVID. I don't believe the cost of production LRP is twice more expensive than other types or primers. Let's see what Budget Shooter will offer us.
Well Henry currently has Ginex large pistol primers available for $185/1K so I'm speculating LRP won't be cheaper. I bought Ginex LRP a couple of years ago for less than $50/1K, so at minimum its quadrupled in price in a relatively short period of time. Did a recent trade of 2K of CCI LRP for 200lbs of pure assayed lead, figured that was good deal.
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The local scrap buy prices are a little better for me, closer to $160 scrap. Local yard is paying 80 cents a pound for soft lead. My local scrappers are more than happy to buy your lead but the problem is they don't want to sell lead, if at all to small retail customers like they used to. That said and the general dwindling of lead availability there is a real retail supply issue and I have no problems selling lead for 3-4 dollars a pound all day long. My cost on the those CCI primers was $70/2K so my effective cost on the cleaned, assayed, processed into bricks lead was 35 cents a pound. I figure I did OK.
They go bang but aren't nearly as consistent for ignition as North American, non match grade primers
They're fine for unaltered milsurps, with heavy firing pin springs or striker springs.
I haven't bothered to measure the cup metal thickness or the overall height of the Ginex primers I gave a try so don't ask.
I found the extreme velocity spread on some 30-06 loads, out of a very decent Rem 721, that I know has its original firing pin and spring were wider than normal, under similar shooting conditions, from the same bench.
Then I tried the last fifty rounds through a Belgian K98 and the extreme velocity spread was normal, when compared to my records on that rifle.
The powder, cases, and bullets used for this comparison were from the same lot as my previous batches, WWII surplus #4831, which is one of the most consistent lots of powders I've used for that type, Frankford Arsenal WWII surplus cases and 147 grain spbt fmj bullets from an unknown manufacturer, that are very consistent in weight and always shoot well.
The Ginex appear to be made from a harder metal compound or are thicker as per milspecs???
I only had one box of 100 to test.
I was given these by a friend, who thought they might be a good alternative. He never purchases enough components to load more than a few hundred rounds, then never loads more than twenty at a time. These usually last him for several years.
His rifle is a very well-done custom P17, given to him by his grandfather, over 50 years ago. Lovely rifle with a 4 pound trigger let off.
I would like to check the velocity variations from shot to shot on some of his loads, but he's still working on the last batch of CCI 200 LR primers he purchased several years ago. He won't be using the Ginex until next summer at the earliest, maybe.
I keep hearing about inconsistencies with the Ginex stuff, which is why I haven't got any yet. I still find enough LRP in CCI and Federal/Winchester to get by, and still have some left over from the "before times".
I "know a guy who knows a guy", and even then it's $14 a sleeve.
Glad I don't own a magnum rifle right now, and it's kind of why I'm eying up a .30-06 for my next project.
I "know a guy who knows a guy", and even then it's $14 a sleeve.
Glad I don't own a magnum rifle right now, and it's kind of why I'm eying up a .30-06 for my next project.
I haven't had a single light strike needing a second pull back on hammer or any firing issues with the ginex SP, SRP, LPP, LRP I've been shooting. And I shoot in the cold too.
Only issue is the price inflation. Large rifle ginex has been $240 in retailers in the ones that do have.
There are some boxes marked 7.62x51 for LRP circulating unlike before. Haven't paid the coin to find out of they're a harder cup like CCI No. 34
Only issue is the price inflation. Large rifle ginex has been $240 in retailers in the ones that do have.
There are some boxes marked 7.62x51 for LRP circulating unlike before. Haven't paid the coin to find out of they're a harder cup like CCI No. 34
And I have more Federal 215 primers, than I have 210 primers, although I won't run out of either in my lifetime.
