I picked up a mess of brass that I stumbled upon at the last gun show. I have been steadily reloading it over the past week. Once I worked my way through the nickel cases, I turned to the brass ones.
Man whoever loaded some of these was a real fan of nuclear loads, one of them the primer looks like someone poured molten silver in the primer pocket and then ground it down to be perfect with the case and while it was still hot pushed it against the breech face to get the machine marks to show through. Phew that would have been a glock buster right there.
Anyway, as I was chugging along, I have a primer seating process hang up, I back up and try again, nope. Finally I pull the case and low and behold a small printer 10mm case. I have never seen such a thing before.
The headstamp is "FC NT 10MM AUTO" anyone seen these before and know who made them? I'm maybe 200 cases into the 800 brass ones that I bought and I have half a dozen of these small primer ones now.
Everyone can ignore the thread, while the initial search here didnt reveal the answer google pulled a thread from here around 2012 that was on the very same topic.
Federal Cartridge Non-Toxic
Interesting stuff.
Yes the NON Toxic primers are only available in the small pistol configuration, I have a few of the cases myself and I wish I could get a ton more of them for special projects and 9x25Dillon use. ;D
Well when I get through the other 800 or so cases, if I have more than a dozen, Ill send them to you. Ill hit you with a PM once I know.
Sounds like a good deal... ;D
Quote from: The_Shadow on February 14 2015 07:36:42 PM MST
Yes the NON Toxic primers are only available in the small pistol configuration, I have a few of the cases myself and I wish I could get a ton more of them for special projects and 9x25Dillon use. ;D
+1
I have small primer 45ACP cases, so if large primers become scares, I can still reload if I have small primers.
You could also use small rifle primers for hot 10mm loads like they use for 454 Cassul, but that would require a strong hit from the firing pin.
Since 10mm is just a longer 40S&W case, and 40S&W uses a small primer, it would be possible for a brass maker (Starline) to custom make 10mm brass with small pistol primers. Maybe someone could start a Group Buy? ;D
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Yea, the cases are still useable with the small primers. Some people hate having small primers type cases in the inventory due to the fact that it can cause stoppages with their progressive presses if they happen to get mixed up together. :o
I have tested the 10mm loads using those small primers, but on the slower powders with denser powder charges seem to need the magnum flash and bristance. With the bottle neck 9x25Dillon the restricted neck lets that pressure build nicely.
That's why I use them in my 9x25 load development projects. I can test things using various primers, small pistol standard, small pistol magnum, and yes small rifle primers of the standard and magnum varieties. Then comparing that to the large primer cases with the same loads...
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