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I have 100  7mm Remington magnums loaded I'll save for 400 primers but I just don't need a few thousand sitting around.

Yeah I know they seat 1, 000 to 3,000 low instead of 6 to 10 and they shoot fine no misfires I have been checking each case for depth

Quote from: crockett on August 26 2025 06:41:56 AM MDTMy OCD won't let me do that. I have equal amounts of SPP, LPP, SRP, LRP, the magnum versions, and the benchrest versions. My stash looks like a perfectly restocked Wal Mart at 6 AM sharp. 

Yes I would not normally do that either but I have stuff that has just been sitting and it needs to get used I shoot at least 20 rounds a day either 9mm or 10mm  when you have stuff that's at least 25 years old it needs to be gone I've got 10 to 15,000 regular primers new I also have 8 lb of 700x and 8 lb of 800x that dates back to the 90s

Quote from: crockett on August 11 2025 03:14:40 PM MDT

Quote from: 10 Round on August 11 2025 12:12:59 PM MDTWell, I saw no darkening using either primer, so there was no blow by, I really believe I was shooting a super light load be86, it would eject, but it wasn't expanding All the way. No discoloration, on either load, I had about 18 feet per second difference in the two loads 6gn 700x 180 rn sure is a wimpy load but I want to get rid of that one can of 700X.

And I thought I'm the only one being stingy without 7mm supplies, even when I want to get rid of a certain kind.

Not only that but I'm shooting large rifle primers in 10 mm to get rid of them I had a thousand and I don't hunt much anymore and I'm shooting small rifle primers and 9 mm to get rid of them.  I also have four boxes of small and large pistol primers the date back to 97 and 98 those are next to get rid of them

And then you woke up one morning and had a 250

I tried the frankford pods I was not impressed still have them, I do use mineral spirits maybe every third load it really does make them slippery  

Well I tried pretty much everything I have Tumblr with pins I have a vibrator with walnut shell and I have a Sonic cleaner.
I tried all of the additives to all of the upper cleaners my brass just would not come out clean no matter what I did I bought everybody's cleaner for the stainless steel pins they just got dingy.
Then I went back to basics I started with Dawn and lemi Shine cleaned all of my stainless steel media and started doing a little smaller loads everything started coming together and I got the stainless steel pen set up running beautifully.
So that was working so well I put Dawn and lemi shine and the Sonic cleaner and lo and behold that started working beautifully Sonic does a pretty good job of cleaning the primer holes next I said I've got to get the Walnut shells working so I went back to spray wax and nu finish and that started working perfectly.
So now after shooting I deprime I throw them in the Sonic for 30 minutes and then right out of the Sonic wet I throw them into the Walnut media for 30 minutes and they come out perfect I haven't even used the stainless steel media. if I pick up some really dirty brass ill start with the Sonic for 30 minutes then probably 30 45 minutes in the stainless steel tumbler and then polish them off with Walnut shells do not need to dry between steps. I need clean brass cuz I shoot in the dirt and sometimes I spend more time looking for my spent cases than actually shooting they're the same exact color I need the sunlight to shine on them to see them. At one point I was doing stainless steel media for up to 3 hours this is cut my time down to 1 hour no drying.

I guess if it's just a range gun, then it's no big deal. But if you're going to carry this hiking in the city or use it for home defense, then maybe you should think twice. Put $10 away.
Every paycheck and get the proven or try to buy a used one.

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Well, I saw no darkening using either primer, so there was no blow by, I really believe I was shooting a super light load be86, it would eject, but it wasn't expanding All the way. No discoloration, on either load, I had about 18 feet per second difference in the two loads 6gn 700x 180 rn sure is a wimpy load but I want to get rid of that one can of 700X.

Quote from: crockett on August 10 2025 03:55:40 PM MDT

Quote from: 10 Round on July 04 2025 02:17:20 PM MDTI have some old cci, large pistol magnum. Primers, i've been restocking with new these old primers were dated 97. I was running a hundred of these to see if they were still good, they are.
I'm running nine point seven grain's of aa #7, and I ran them with standard fiocchi, primers and the cci magnum, primers, the magnum primers, leave the brass completely black carbon all over the outside, not as accurate, as the fiocchi, and the fiocchi's leave the brass almost completely clean. Are the primers just too hot for that load of powder and 180gn bullet in a g29 short barrel.?

Those magnum primers are fouled due to contamination from humidity and / or chemical degradation, causing incomplete burning of the powder, resulting in lower chamber pressure, and that prevents the brass from expanding fully in the chamber, so you get to see dirty blow-by, leaving carbon on the outside of the brass behind.

Usually magnum primers cause a pressure spike and more case expansion - not less - so they must be foul.

If stored at constant low temperatures, in low humidity and sealed, they often do last longer.

That is a very good possibility. I will do a test today. I loaded five brand new regular primers, five of the old magnum, primers, same load this time, and I will check for blow by. On the other test, I was loading very low powder levels. So that's a possibility. I will find out today and do some speed testing. Now, one other goody, I just changed powders, i'm trying to get rid of some 700x.

Quote from: crockett on August 10 2025 12:51:50 PM MDTI don't own any primers that cost me more than $29.

Yeah, that must be the good old days. I still have some of those old ones too. You didn't get new ones at that price, did you? I'll give you thirty five forty bucks for a few boxes.Each

You got me motivated? I went out and cleaned up my shooting area, and The shop bench 

Okay, check bullet speed today. 1050 fps through g29.
I also noticed, but the brass comes out. Really clean?