New to reloading which primers to use
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When you figure that out, you'll understand why people around this forum hand-load. The start-up cost is high and the break-even point is a far piece down the road. That said, if I was starting from scratch with just what I _know_, I'd go forward with the investment required to hand-load.
Somebody before this reply said, "This place ain't about paper plate accuracy." There was another comment about "300yds and in." I'm pretty sure most of us here are interested in hitting a soup can at 600yds with a cold bore shot. After that you're ready to ethically hunt animals at long distance.
I think you're already down the rabbit hole now.
Just keep enjoying your progress. Everything you'll ever need to know has already been addressed right here. You've just got to wade through it.
Holy-Moley ... what did they do? Charge you a HAZMAT fee for each individual package?
Possibly? Crazy high. Powder from another place (I'll have to se where from) hit me with more total shipping than the 5# of powder ordered. Canceled that
orangelightening
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Jesus that is ridiculous crazy shipping lol
Calvin45
Well-Known Member
Welcome here, and a fellow Canuck says hi. Honestly when it comes to primers if you can
Find and afford them, BUY THEM!
Where I am large rifle primers are the only thing still hard to find, large rifle magnum are relatively available now. To be honest using magnum primers in non magnum cartridges won't hurt a darn thing. If it's the right size for
The primer pocket and goes bang, go for
It.
orangelightening
Member
Honestly that's fair. Yeah, i bought 400 primers the other day, and will buy brass/projectiles/powders as i see them come available, only have so much money at the moment so will worry about getting the dies, presses etc in the not too distant future, and focus on the the stuff like brass and primers and such for right now as they're really scarce to come by here in canada, most places sold out still due to the pandemic, you can find them but most of the time it's sold out so you just gotta keep monitoring it until you see stuff come into stock and act fast as it'll sell out quick. Not in too much of a rush for the dies and stuff just yet as i live in a 1 bedroom apartment no room to set up reloading stuff atm unfortunately but hopefully soon enough will get a bigger place so do all that.When you figure that out, you'll understand why people around this forum hand-load. The start-up cost is high and the break-even point is a far piece down the road. That said, if I was starting from scratch with just what I _know_, I'd go forward with the investment required to hand-load.
Somebody before this reply said, "This place ain't about paper plate accuracy." There was another comment about "300yds and in." I'm pretty sure most of us here are interested in hitting a soup can at 600yds with a cold bore shot. After that you're ready to ethically hunt animals at long distance.
I think you're already down the rabbit hole now.
When you figure that out, you'll understand why people around this forum hand-load. The start-up cost is high and the break-even point is a far piece down the road. That said, if I was starting from scratch with just what I _know_, I'd go forward with the investment required to hand-load.
Somebody before this reply said, "This place ain't about paper plate accuracy." There was another comment about "300yds and in." I'm pretty sure most of us here are interested in hitting a soup can at 600yds with a cold bore shot. After that you're ready to ethically hunt animals at long distance.
I think you're already down the rabbit hole now.
Yeah i think i'm well down the rabbit hole now myself lol. I've certainly had everything i need mentioned for now so will just keep on trucking with it i guess so how it goes
orangelightening
Member
Honestly seen quite a few Canadians on here, wasn't expecting that lol. Fair enough, thanks for that clarification wasn't sure if magnum primers would work, think one other guy said they would but he said some other stuff which confused me a bit. I did manage to buy 4 trays of primers on Cabelas website, glad i did because i kept monitoring it to see if they'd sell out, and they did, so i ended up getting 400 primers. Another question i have you'd probably know, does it matter if i don't match the reloading supplies, like i bought federal 210 primers, a few people in the comments said that federal brass is ok but there's a few other brands that like lapua which makes better brass, so i assume i can use federal primers in lapua brass or do i need to use federal primers in federal brass? same goes for bullets/projectiles when i got looking into them i mostly found hornady bullets/projectiles, and a couple other companies as well
Critter Picker
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Federal primers work fine in Lapua brass.
Calvin45
Well-Known Member
Oh absolutely you do not need to match up primers brass and bullets by any brand. Glad to hear your off to a good start here.
Calvin45
Well-Known Member
In fact if I had my way that's pretty much THE perfect combo haha
Welcome to the journey that NEVER ends.
The number of forks in the road multiplies exponentially, if you allow it get over-complicated.
PS-it's real easy for that to happen
The number of forks in the road multiplies exponentially, if you allow it get over-complicated.
PS-it's real easy for that to happen
Critter Picker
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Every fork in the road leads to another fork in the road. Rabbit hole after Rabbit hole.
