Monday, March 1, 2021

A Primer on Primers

 

I was reading the comments at Joel's blog The Ultimate Answer to Kings and somebody mentioned a site which educates people on how to reload Boxer primers.

Down the rabbit hole I went.

Scanning microscope image of diatomaceous earth.

So many choices. Incidentally, if I were to pick a recipe that used ground nitrocellulose and ground glass, I do believe I would use Win PB (or Vectan GM-3) as either would be easy to grind and I would look at using diatomaceous earth instead of ground glass.

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4 comments:

  1. coyoteken48March 1, 2021 at 8:40 PM

    and # 11 primers for the muzzle loaders. Thanks--ken

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  2. StuartMarch 2, 2021 at 11:07 AM

    Unfortunately PB is no longer manufactured.

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    1. Eaton Rapids JoeMarch 2, 2021 at 11:46 AM

      Bummer.

      My next choice would probably be the fastest burning flake powders: E3, Bullseye, or maybe Hodgdon Titewad

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  3. MS JordanMarch 14, 2021 at 2:38 PM

    Thank you for that link

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