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Is it a type of high explosive ? I was just loading a mag prime'r in my 44 with a tightly pack'd ball of alum foil to shoot cans off my back deck, they are strong li'll things. Dwindling the worlds lead supply one cat at a time!! | ||
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I tried sticking the shell into paraffin wax it will shoot through a cardboard box. Somewhere I read about using rubber bullets with only the primer to propel it. I think the tin foil would probably not hold its shape and possibly be hard on the rifling but that is only a guess. Swede --------------------------------------------------------- NRA Life Member | |||
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Primers contain lead styphnate with a blend of oxidizers and non-corrosive fuels according to Speer. Since the fuel and oxidizers aren`t listed I take it they are priority mixtures by the various manufactures. ------------------------------------ The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity. ~Patrick Murray "Why shouldn`t truth be stranger then fiction? Fiction after all has to make sense." (Samual Clemens) "Saepe errans, numquam dubitans --Frequently in error, never in doubt". | |||
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Yes they are an explosive. They are not to be messed with in bulk, that is why they come in partitioned boxes. Good Luck! | |||
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If it looks like an explosion, sounds like an explosion and acts like an explosion, you had better treat it like an explosion. However the technical term is conflagration--a particularily rapid form of combustion. You and I cannot tell the difference between what a primer does and a true explosion. | |||
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