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Originally Posted by Paul Harm
Wish I would have seen Bills post a week ago before we got our reloading order. I would have ordered some extra lite. Bill, you probably already know that Rem, Win, Cheddite, and a couple of other mild primers will all interchange without changing pressures enough to worry about at the pressures we're reloading at. Those Remington primers [ and I'm a big Remington fan and collector ] are awful expensive. I too have shot 3/4oz loads for years but you guys have got me thinking.
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Hi Paul,
Agreed, those Remington STS209 primers are expensive. I've lucked out buying them. I got 4 bricks of them, 4,000 primers, at a gun show for $30.00 per brick. And I found about another 1500 at a small local gun shop for about $30 per brick. And I got 5 bricks of them online for $38.00 each plus shipping, etc. which isn't too painful.
A lot of my shooting is with my early A grade 12 gauge Fox. Turns out the firing pins when the hammers are down extend into the standing breech, and therefore into the primers about 0.062". About 0.010" more than a couple other doubles I shoot.
Thus after both barrels are fired into Winchester primers for example, the gun is hard to break open because the firing pins are a little too far into the fired primers. It doesn't do that with the harder Remington's so the gun breaks open nice and easy.
I don't use Cheddite's because I think they are just slightly larger in diameter than USA primers and make the primer pocket just a little bigger so that if I go back to USA primers, those would be a little loose. It actually probably doesn't amount too much tho.
I do use Winchester 209's for my other loads at a much more reasonable price. And that helps I guess.
Bill
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