Swapping primers from a recipe
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Any time you change any component and your near maximum load you start again at 10% less and work back up again.
A little info below.
CHOOSING THE RIGHT PRIMER - A PRIMER ON PRIMERS
http://www.sksboards.com/smf/index.php?topic=56422.0
Primers - Small Rifle Primer Study
http://riflemansjournal.########.com/2009/06/primers-small-rifle-primer-study.html
Primers - Large Rifle Primer Study
http://riflemansjournal.########.com/2009/06/primers-large-rifle-primer-study.html
A little info below.
CHOOSING THE RIGHT PRIMER - A PRIMER ON PRIMERS
http://www.sksboards.com/smf/index.php?topic=56422.0
Primers - Small Rifle Primer Study
http://riflemansjournal.########.com/2009/06/primers-small-rifle-primer-study.html
Primers - Large Rifle Primer Study
http://riflemansjournal.########.com/2009/06/primers-large-rifle-primer-study.html
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Whenever I see that chart, I can't help but wonder if there's a connection between the complaints we hear of Federal brass becoming too loose around the primer pockets and even cases of primers falling out after a couple of reloads, and that Federal makes the largest diameter primers. Maybe using Fed primers instead of CCI would help those guys.
I almost always use Winchester primers, so I usually the don't have ones the book calls for like Fed CCI Rem etc. It's perfectly fine and when they name case brand I usually have a different one too.
Powder type and charge weight along with bullet weight are the important things. If the manual says 308 Win 150gr bullet 42-46gr IMR 4895 those are the things you have to follow.
As far as the above primer size post. I have read some trap loaders switch to larger Euro brand 209 shotgun primers near the end of their hull life as they are larger and stay in the pockets better. If you go to Euro primers first the American ones won't stay in the stretched pockets anymore.
Powder type and charge weight along with bullet weight are the important things. If the manual says 308 Win 150gr bullet 42-46gr IMR 4895 those are the things you have to follow.
As far as the above primer size post. I have read some trap loaders switch to larger Euro brand 209 shotgun primers near the end of their hull life as they are larger and stay in the pockets better. If you go to Euro primers first the American ones won't stay in the stretched pockets anymore.
In over 30+ years of handloading...I've only ever had 3 primers that failed ( Pinhole blowout on the inside corners)....2 were Fed 210's...the other was a Fed 215. That was around the mid-late 80's. I switched to Win and CCi's and haven't looked back...never had any more issues either!
