Outdoored wrote:I've tried to digest as much as I can here, but the information is scattered on my specific question. Going to attempt my first reloads soon and I need guidance regarding primers!! I see that the preferred primer is the Rem 71/2...butI've searched everywhere with no luck.....I have 2000 wolf small magnum rifle primers, 500 CCI 450 primers, and 2000 CCI 400 primers.........I have 5 lbs of Lil Gun and everything I need to get started (Thanks to the info from you guys)......Can someone PLEASE give me a recommendation on which primer to start with? Which of the three that I have would be best?
Part of the fun and responsibility to the forum is blazing new trails. If you stay in the middle of the load range for Lil Gun, all of those primers are a safe bet. Performance goes beyond
safe though.
What we need is for someone who is able to minimize the effect of the main reloading technique variables, that affect velocity. Then that person runs some load workups, correlates their results and present them to the group for our mutual benefit. I spent the better part of my first and second years with this caliber, doing just that. That's the give and take of the forum.
There is still much to be learned through smilar experiments, but we need some fresh blood to show some R&D initiative. Yes, it's altruistic for the most part, but that's what we're wired to do.
There was a time when the manufacturers returned some of their profits made off of us the customers, in the form of R&D. For the more ubiquitous calibers, that was done, but as soon as that effort strays too far from their high volume product lines, their committment drops off to non-existent. The 450b falls into that latter description and it's up to us to further the state of the art.
Doing that is as much fun as it is work, so pick a topic of interest and have some fun.
Hoot
EDIT: The CCI 400s will yield the worst results. I've tried them and they are a bit cool for Lil Gun and W296. I have never had the other two primers, but if they actually live up to their promise of being
Magnum primers, then they should yield acceptable results. Like safe, acceptable is not necessarily the stopping point once you get there.
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