209 magnum primers

[Richard Flanders]

I looked them up and learned that they're not quite as hot as a 209A but are a close second. I found some loads on a forum that showed 1-1/8oz loads that produced a bit over 10,000psi, which is more than double my 1-oz PB target loads I feed my light damascus guns. It sounds like you could sub them for 209's by reducing the powder charge and/or the shot load some and I'm sure they would work better in extreme cold if that were a factor. I'll search my manuals for suitable loads for duck hunting perhaps. I didn't accept them but will take at least some of them. I don't load heavy loads for anything, but my friend wants some 00-buck loads for his bear shotgun so I'll make him up some stout shells for that with them if I can find some high-brass hulls. I have lots of RIO hulls but they take the European primers. He also gave me a mostly full 1# bottle of Clays powder, which I can use somehow. He has a 1-man scrap metal business. Folks bring him mostly copper but somehow he also ends up with milk crates full of ancient ammo and 5-gal buckets full of mostly, but not all, range brass - .50BMG, .45acp, .308, 5.56, .357mag, 38special, 300Win mag, 300WSM, you name it. He also gets lots of brand new brass in the original bags and new or reloaded ammo. He has a bunch of boxes of mostly hvly corroded and cob webbed but still boxed vintage .405Winchester, most of it useless except for salvaging the nice old original jacketed SP bullets. I saw a good clean box of that go for $110 at a Denver gun show last year. I get first pick out of all that he takes in, and for free, unless he needs it. I return the favor by reloading ammo for some of his guns and helping him with permitting his recently acquired and very rich placer gold mine. Sure wish I had gotten the bulk box of 1000 new 230 gr .45acp Winchester FMJ ball ammo that some woman whose husband died sold him, along with boxes of other brass and ammo.

[6pt-Sika]

I first used 209M’s in my Knight Disc Rifle muzzleloaders . I’ve always kept some of them around . Now they get used in some of my heavier loads .