24 February 2003, 04:38
<prtzlbender>Magnum primers with cast bullets?????
Is it foolish to prime a 44 magnum pistol with magnum primers if you're shooting cast bullets??
24 February 2003, 05:51
MingbogoIt should not be a problem. Most of my cast bullets are very hard and I usually load them up pretty good with large pistol magnum primers. I use mainly CCI primers, as I got a good supply of them. Good luck.
24 February 2003, 11:15
<stans>I think the only powders that really require magnum primers are H-110, W-296 and maybe AA#9. Otherwise, you can just use standard large pistol primers and save a few pennies.
24 February 2003, 12:16
aladinI've had good results shooten mag primers with a rifle using the faster numbers which aren't running anything near a max chamber pressure for that rds specs. For instance with all the air space in an 06 case with say 17-20 grs of Blue Dot the ignition and ES's generally are somewhat lower with the magnum versions.
The age old adage about mag primners is true though-- just don't work up a max loading with a cool primer and then substitute them w/o reworking the load.